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Just the dirty, updated statistics:
Two DEGREES, not majors, B.S. Biochemistry and B.A. Psychology
cGPA- 3.3
sGPA- 3.5
MCAT - 32S
Upper Division Courses:
Biochemistry 1 & 2 = A's
Organic Chemistry 1 & 2 = A's
Cell Bio = B+
Molecular Bio = B+
Quantitative Chemical Analysis = A
Physical Biochemistry = A
Genetics = B
24 year old, upper middle class, California resident, Currently in gap year applying for 2013 at a top 25 university doing research under a R01.
ECs
Working on my PS, I obviously think it's good but who knows. LOR are very very strong, my PI is a top in his field and very well respected, writing me a phenomenal letter as he says.
School LIst
Where else should I apply??? What are my chances? Will be submitting June 5th, everything is done except for PS. Obviously nervous because I am by far reaching to even get into MD. I want MD over DO because of the research opportunities and specializing available to MDs traditionally.
Sincere thanks for your time.
Two DEGREES, not majors, B.S. Biochemistry and B.A. Psychology
cGPA- 3.3
sGPA- 3.5
MCAT - 32S
Upper Division Courses:
Biochemistry 1 & 2 = A's
Organic Chemistry 1 & 2 = A's
Cell Bio = B+
Molecular Bio = B+
Quantitative Chemical Analysis = A
Physical Biochemistry = A
Genetics = B
24 year old, upper middle class, California resident, Currently in gap year applying for 2013 at a top 25 university doing research under a R01.
ECs
- Nordstrom's Employee - Full time for 4 summers and some Christmas' break
- Eco-responsibility student initiative planner (1 year, the only time it was done, it was a grassroots student organization aimed at raising funds for a well in Africa through resource conservation, essentially kids conserve water and electricity on campus and our school agreed whatever we saved off the top was going to be donated) 6 hrs/week during that time
- ER Waiting Room Volunteer - Just started in May, 6hrs/week
- At Risk Adolescent Tutor - 1 year for 7 hrs/week
- Non Profit Organizer - 1.5 yrs 10 hrs/week (We provided crowd-sourced fundraising resources as well as marketing for non-profits. We created a website that allowed fundraising events to upload/download well-designed materials to market with as well as provide ideas for fundraisers. This allowed non-profits to receive quality marketing materials for free, thereby increasing fundraising profit and maximizing giving-potential.)
- Undergraduate Research- three different projects, nothing really came of any of it.
- Currently researching high caliber stuff, four projects, two have been accepted for conferences and one (the one I'm the primary on) is going to have a talk at one of the biggest science conferences in the US. One project is about chemo recovery model (4th author), two are on a developmental models of schizophrenia (3rd on both), and my project (1st author) is on stress and pregnancy.
- Hobbies are - Coffee Roasting, Fitness athlete (competitive beach volleyball for awhile, won some small contests in random stuff), cyclist, multi-instrumentalist
Working on my PS, I obviously think it's good but who knows. LOR are very very strong, my PI is a top in his field and very well respected, writing me a phenomenal letter as he says.
School LIst
- UCLA - reach
- UCSD - reach
- UCD
- UCI
- USC
- Loma Linda
- Loyola
- Michigan State
- Rosalind Franklin
- Rush
- Ohio State
- Illinois at Chicago
- Georgetown
Where else should I apply??? What are my chances? Will be submitting June 5th, everything is done except for PS. Obviously nervous because I am by far reaching to even get into MD. I want MD over DO because of the research opportunities and specializing available to MDs traditionally.
Sincere thanks for your time.
