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Alright so. I did a dumb gamble I didn't tell anyone about that paid off tremendously, so I think I might actually be ready to apply next cycle (2020) instead of my intended cycle (2021). I was originally going to take the MCAT this August but in a fit of mania (hello bipolar II) registered for and took it last month instead. Just got scores back last week and praise all that is holy I do not need to retake.
Here we go... sorry this is long!
Here we go... sorry this is long!
- GPA:
- Undergrad: 2.9 (graduated 8 years ago, cared a little too much about partying my way through college)
- Postbac: 4.0
- cGPA: 3.35
- sGPA: 3.75 (both AMCAS and AACOMAS)
- Will be taking upper division bio courses during the 2019-2020 year to hopefully swing that cGPA into 3.4, which is very doable
- Non-medical related masters: 4.0
- MCAT: 518 (!!!) - 130 CP / 130 CARS (!!) / 127 BB / 131 PS
- State of residence: Massachusetts
- Ethnicity: Asian female (way ORM)
- Undergrad: HYPSM
- Clinical experience:
- 4 years work experience as a mental health clinician (inpatient, residential, PHP)
- ~100 volunteer hours at local hospital (will continue volunteering this next year)
- Research experience:
- 4 posters at national conferences
- 1 manuscript in review, 1 in prep
- Shadowing experience:
- ~60 hours across peds, onco, geriatrics, IM (is this enough?)
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- Crocheting blankets/hats for the homeless - thousands of hours, been doing this since I was 14
- 30 hours arts outreach for city ballet company
- 50 hours volunteering at local food bank (no longer doing this)
- 50 hours volunteering at women's shelter (continuing this)
- 100 hours volunteering at a cat shelter (I'm a crazy cat lady and not ashamed of it, sorry)
- Lead free support groups and mentorships for individuals recovering from eating disorders
- ECs:
- Started and ran a dance company; also participated in a few others at a semipro level
- Director of a city-wide arts festival
- I'm... in the Junior League >___>
- Currently compiling an anthology of eating disorder recovery stories, grant-sponsored by a prominent leader in ED treatment
- Honors/awards:
- Best poster award at national conference
- National fellowship for service to underserved youth
- Other stuff:
- I'm a three-time career changer. Previously worked in finance, then in PR/marketing, now in mental health. I'm scared this will work against me because it will seem like I can't stick with something long term.
- Why medicine (the real reason, not the fancy PS reason): scope of practice is limited in as a masters-level clinician. I work in an inpatient facility for individuals with eating disorders, and want to continue doing work in areas that bridge the biopsychosocial realm - things like addiction psychiatry, eating disorders, somatic medicine, psychotic disorders. It is nigh impossible to get a full picture of these disorders without understanding the underlying medical conditions. Also, I want to prescribe =P
- Have lived experience with mental health issues, and am generally very open about this (if you Google me you can find some of my writings and articles). I don't plan on including it in my PS but if brought up during interviews, I won't shy away from talking about it.
- PCOM
- TCOM
- UConn
- Yale (reaaaaachhh)
- George Washington
- Georgetown
- Loyola
- Rosalind Franklin
- Boston University
- Tufts
- UMass
- Mayo
- UMKC
- Duke
- Wake Forest
- Dartmouth
- Rowan
- Seton Hall
- Albert Einstein
- Columbia
- Mount Sinai
- NYU
- Case Western
- Drexel
- Sidney Kimmell
- Temple
- UPenn
- Brown
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