Just got my MCAT score back applying next cycle was wondering if I could have some help with a school list/general advice as to what I should be adding to the app before next June. Thanks!
- State/Country of Residence: CA
- Ties to other States/Regions: N/A
- Year in School: Projected 2021 graduation
- Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Biology
- Undergrad school: Low tier UC.
- Graduate Degrees (if applicable): N/A
- Cumulative GPA: 3.85 (upward trend)
- Science GPA: 3.83
- MCAT Score(s): 523 - 131/130/132/130
- Research Experience: 3 Years working in an immunology wet lab
- Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. First author, second author, etc.): 1 poster presentation at a national conference. 1 paper soon to be published but ill be 4th or 5th author.
- Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): Worked as a volunteer in a rheumatology clinic for 200 hours over the course of last year. Currently on hold due to COVID. Going to try to grab a clinical research job starting now, but if not that is not possible I will settle for scribing or something to get some good paid clinical exp.
- Physician Shadowing: Neurosurgery, Internal Med, Anesthesiology, Rheumatology 150 hours.
- Non-Clinical Volunteering: Worked at a soup kitchen for the past year and a half, projected 400 hours.
- Other Extracurricular Activities: Learning Assitant for general chemistry and Bio courses before COVID. Also had leadership positions in a frat but I am hesitant to add them. It was a good experience but frats have a bad rep. Had a week-long internship with a neurosurgeon where I shadowed and scribed for him. I wrote a research paper that was "published" on their website.
- Other Employment History: N/A
- Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N
- Specialty of Interest (if applicable): Keeping everything open but definitely something surgical
- Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): N
- Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): Y
- ORM white
- Medical School List: so far I have added t20s and state schools and a few other ones but I feel like my list is top heavy.
- USC Keck
- Stanford
- UC Irvine
- UCSD
- UCSF
- UCLA
- Geisel Dartmouth
- Mayo
- Stony Brook
- University of Colorado (have a minor connection here)
- Washington (st Louis)
- Yale
- Harvard
- Case Western
- Vanderbilt
- Miami Leonard
- Boston U
- Northwestern
- Kaiser
- Einstein
- Umich
- Carle Illinois
- Northridge
- Cal university of science and med
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