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- Nov 18, 2015
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uGPA: 3.2/3.0
MPH GPA: 3.67
SMP GPA: 3.7
MCAT: 511-513 confidence band (85%) - 127 Chem, 130 CARS, 129 Bio, 125 psych
- FL resident
- 1000+ hours in research (4 labs throughout undergrad and grad school with 2 publications still in the works but several poster presentations)
- 1000+ hours clinical/shadowing (multiple shadowing positions, worked as an internal med scribe [so below])
- 500 hrs+ nonclinical volunteering (2 years of health/wellness mentoring for underprivileged middle schoolers, 3 years of tutoring for kids living in assisted living, dispersed LGBT awareness work in undergrad and grad)
- 500 hrs+ clinical volunteering [does this overlap with shadowing?] (medical internship at hospital while an undergrad which required working on wards, worked with female sex workers on risky sexual practice awareness in Thailand as part as my MPH thesis, 3 medical aid trips [basic scribing < teaching and infrastructure work so may actually count as nonmedical?])
- 1000+ hours of work experience (part time self-employed piano teacher for 7 years, >1000 hours worked as a scribe at Stanford Hospital last year)
- Lots of letters of recs (science and nonscience letters from undergrad, professor + PI letters from MPH, committee letter from SMP)
Don't know if I'm considered nontrad (4 years out of undergrad) but I will be a reapplicant. Applied in the 2015 cycle after completing my MPH and out of ~40 apps, got 1 interview at a state school despite also applying to ~8 DO's and having a lucky state residency (discovered there were some issues with my personal statement and worked with a couple really successful people on here to fix it up). Gearing up for reapplication this upcoming cycle and kinda paranoid about applying to a lower number of schools despite my perfectly good MCAT and pretty successful SMP run. Here is what I have, with *'s signifying NONreapplication schools
Definitely applying:
- UCLA (undergrad home institution)
- UCSF (MPH home institution)
- BU* (SMP home institution)
- FIU, FAU, FSU, USF, UCF, UF, UMiami (state schools, interviewed at Miami previous cycle)
Considering applying, would like to cut from:
Definite reaches/guilty pleasures I am 50/50 on and will probably cut:
- Stanford
- OHSU
Definite reaches, but have shown some SMP love in past:
- USC*
- CWRU*
- Yale*
- Mt Sinai*
- UPitt*
- Albert Einstein*
Shown SMP love in past
- Tufts
- GWU
- Georgetown
- Loyola
- Tulane
- Drexel/Temple/TJU
- EVMS
- VCU
- Vtech
- Rosy Franklin*
- Wayne State*
- SLU*
- Creighton*
- Cincinnati*
- NYMC
- Hofstra
- Albany
- SUNY Downstate
- Vermont*
- PSU*
DO schools:
- Nova
- LECOM-Bradenton
- WesternU/COMP
- Touro CA
- PCOM
- CCOM
- NYIT/NYCOM
- UNECOM
- Marian*
- Touro NV*
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Things I'm worried about:
1) Currently sitting at 40 MD + 10 DO's, similar numbers to when I first applied. Admittedly had errors in my last app which I have fixed and have otherwise strengthened significantly, but paranoid about cutting down
2) Most of my school are reapp schools. I researched SDN extensively when I first applied and believe I picked a good number of lower end MDs, hence why almost the entire list is the same. Should I skip out on reapp schools for other lower MD's?
3) I expected much more DO love when I first applied. SMP advisors have said to keep 5 given my FL residency and successful SMP GPA, but should I keep this number higher and closer to 10?
Thank you in advance
MPH GPA: 3.67
SMP GPA: 3.7
MCAT: 511-513 confidence band (85%) - 127 Chem, 130 CARS, 129 Bio, 125 psych
- FL resident
- 1000+ hours in research (4 labs throughout undergrad and grad school with 2 publications still in the works but several poster presentations)
- 1000+ hours clinical/shadowing (multiple shadowing positions, worked as an internal med scribe [so below])
- 500 hrs+ nonclinical volunteering (2 years of health/wellness mentoring for underprivileged middle schoolers, 3 years of tutoring for kids living in assisted living, dispersed LGBT awareness work in undergrad and grad)
- 500 hrs+ clinical volunteering [does this overlap with shadowing?] (medical internship at hospital while an undergrad which required working on wards, worked with female sex workers on risky sexual practice awareness in Thailand as part as my MPH thesis, 3 medical aid trips [basic scribing < teaching and infrastructure work so may actually count as nonmedical?])
- 1000+ hours of work experience (part time self-employed piano teacher for 7 years, >1000 hours worked as a scribe at Stanford Hospital last year)
- Lots of letters of recs (science and nonscience letters from undergrad, professor + PI letters from MPH, committee letter from SMP)
Don't know if I'm considered nontrad (4 years out of undergrad) but I will be a reapplicant. Applied in the 2015 cycle after completing my MPH and out of ~40 apps, got 1 interview at a state school despite also applying to ~8 DO's and having a lucky state residency (discovered there were some issues with my personal statement and worked with a couple really successful people on here to fix it up). Gearing up for reapplication this upcoming cycle and kinda paranoid about applying to a lower number of schools despite my perfectly good MCAT and pretty successful SMP run. Here is what I have, with *'s signifying NONreapplication schools
Definitely applying:
- UCLA (undergrad home institution)
- UCSF (MPH home institution)
- BU* (SMP home institution)
- FIU, FAU, FSU, USF, UCF, UF, UMiami (state schools, interviewed at Miami previous cycle)
Considering applying, would like to cut from:
Definite reaches/guilty pleasures I am 50/50 on and will probably cut:
- Stanford
- OHSU
Definite reaches, but have shown some SMP love in past:
- USC*
- CWRU*
- Yale*
- Mt Sinai*
- UPitt*
- Albert Einstein*
Shown SMP love in past
- Tufts
- GWU
- Georgetown
- Loyola
- Tulane
- Drexel/Temple/TJU
- EVMS
- VCU
- Vtech
- Rosy Franklin*
- Wayne State*
- SLU*
- Creighton*
- Cincinnati*
- NYMC
- Hofstra
- Albany
- SUNY Downstate
- Vermont*
- PSU*
DO schools:
- Nova
- LECOM-Bradenton
- WesternU/COMP
- Touro CA
- PCOM
- CCOM
- NYIT/NYCOM
- UNECOM
- Marian*
- Touro NV*
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Things I'm worried about:
1) Currently sitting at 40 MD + 10 DO's, similar numbers to when I first applied. Admittedly had errors in my last app which I have fixed and have otherwise strengthened significantly, but paranoid about cutting down
2) Most of my school are reapp schools. I researched SDN extensively when I first applied and believe I picked a good number of lower end MDs, hence why almost the entire list is the same. Should I skip out on reapp schools for other lower MD's?
3) I expected much more DO love when I first applied. SMP advisors have said to keep 5 given my FL residency and successful SMP GPA, but should I keep this number higher and closer to 10?
Thank you in advance
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