Hellos! Hoping I could get some input on my school list. Thank you in advance for your help!
ORM, caucasian
ORM, caucasian
- Year in school: Graduating Spring 2020
- Undergrad: large public school
- Country/state of residence: CA
- Cumulative GPA: 3.991 (1 A-)
- Science GPA: 3.98
- MCAT Scores: 515 (128/127/131/129)
- Research –
- Basic Science Research; Jan 2018 - Jun 2021; 400 hrs - autoimmune lab focusing on multiple sclerosis; worked with mice, presented research at poster days / symposiums
- Clinical Research; April 2018 - Jun 2021 600 hrs; worked with cardiac arrhythmia center collecting data points from patients medical records
- Volunteering (clinical) –
- hospital volunteer internship; 950 hrs; Feb 2018 - Aug 2020 - volunteered in different hospital departments, interacted with patients / nurses
- gained leadership role with helping run the program; Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
- general volunteer; 650 hrs; Sept 2017 - July 2021, club focused on running free preventative heart EKG screening for young athletes
- gained leadership role with club; May 2019 - July 2021, as volunteer director, assisted with running the club, keeping track of volunteer attendances, etc
- hospital volunteer internship; 950 hrs; Feb 2018 - Aug 2020 - volunteered in different hospital departments, interacted with patients / nurses
- Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties:
- 207 hrs at various times since June 2017. Shadowed physicians from primary care, peds, surgery, orthopedic surgery, cardiac EP.
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- Jan - April 2018; repeated 2019 - general volunteer for Science Olympiad - wrote exams and proctored events
- Jan - April 2020; repeated 2021 - President of school's Science Olympiad chapter - wrote exams / proctored events / kept track of our volunteer base and their work / led general meetings
- undergraduate assistant for systems anatomy class, sept 2019 - dec 2019, 80 hrs, taught systems anatomy topics with the help of human cadavers
- Jan - April 2018; repeated 2019 - general volunteer for Science Olympiad - wrote exams and proctored events
- Employment history:
- Jan 2019 - Jan 2020; 1500 hrs; worked as an EMT
- Extracurricular activities:
- Travelers' Century Club (world travelers who have been to 100 countries); Jan 2018 - present; ~ 80 hrs with the club, 1000s of hours traveling
- into hiking / outdoors activities
- Immediate family members in medicine? : parents are pharmacists
- Specialty of interest: surgery, but think it's too soon to say definitively
- Graduate degrees: N/A
- Interest in rural health: not particularly
- Schools to which you are applying:
- All UC's
- USC
- Kaiser
- U Virginia
- Sinai
- UPitt
- Ohio State
- Michigan
- UCincinnati
- Hofstra
- USF Morsani
- Stony Brook
- Einstein
- UMass
- U Iowa
- Emory
- U Arizona
- U Miami
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