Hi everyone! Just putting this here for data and so anyone applying to these schools can ask questions in the future! Good luck to us all!
Undergraduate School/School type: Well-known seven sisters school in Northeast USA
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.42 // 3.20 but my school is known for deflating grades
Major/minor: Neuroscience // Gender Studies (conc. in Health/Bioethics)
GRE(including date taken): Didn't take, but have a 516 on the MCAT, taken in June 2020.
Experience/research:
Numerous related undergrad courses (U.S. Public Health, Global Health, Feminist Bioethics, etc.)
3 months teaching science at a charity school in Arusha, Tanzania.
9 months during undergrad working for a medical coding company.
1 year volunteer position at a hospital near my college.
1.25 years postgrad as lead researcher running all anesthesia-related research at a large hospital. 40 hours patient interaction/week, experience with the IRB side of research, 1 publication, and a third place prize from presenting at an international Anesthesia conference.
9 months postgrad (after COVID staffing changes suspended anesthesia research) in the hospital cytology lab.
Letters of Rec: One from my PI (an anesthesiologist), 2 from other senior anesthesiologists I worked with, one from Senior capstone neuroscience professor, one from Global Health/Bioethics professor who currently teaches in a school of public health.
Interests: Community health, but more specifically maternal and child health. I'm very passionate about child development and changing our public spaces and systems to allow children to grow up healthier and safer.
Applied: George Washington (11/30), DePaul (11/30), University of Illinois at Chicago (11/15), Harvard (11/30), Maryland (11/30), U Washington (11/29)
Accepted: George Washington (12/17), DePaul (1/8), University of Illinois at Chicago (1/28), Maryland (2/3)
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Attending:
