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I would really appreciate some opinions on a school list! I'll preface this by noting that I included years because my experiences are quite spread out. (I'm in my mid-30s.)
cGPA: 3.90; sGPA: 3.81
MCAT (last month): 510 (127/127/128/128)
State of residence: California; also qualify as in-state in Iowa
Ethnicity: White male
Institutions:
Non-clinical volunteering:
Anything else not listed you think might be important:
I am looking for as many as 30 total.
So far:
cGPA: 3.90; sGPA: 3.81
MCAT (last month): 510 (127/127/128/128)
State of residence: California; also qualify as in-state in Iowa
Ethnicity: White male
Institutions:
Undergrad: mid-sized, modest, private university, BA psychology and music 2004
Grad: Big 10 school, MA music therapy 2008
Post-bacc: Mostly community college, some UC Extension. 2016-present
Clinical experience: Grad: Big 10 school, MA music therapy 2008
Post-bacc: Mostly community college, some UC Extension. 2016-present
--2,900 hrs: ED clerk, 2003-2005
--unquantified hours: clinical music therapy rotations (not included in primary app), 2005-2008
--11,500 hours: rehabilitation therapist, forensic psychiatric hospital, 2009-2016. Some committee-level leadership positions, nothing supervisory.
--est. 200 hours (20 at time of app): ED volunteer (recent)
Research experience: --unquantified hours: clinical music therapy rotations (not included in primary app), 2005-2008
--11,500 hours: rehabilitation therapist, forensic psychiatric hospital, 2009-2016. Some committee-level leadership positions, nothing supervisory.
--est. 200 hours (20 at time of app): ED volunteer (recent)
--1,400 hrs: music perception in cochlear implant lab, 2005-2007; 1 conf. paper, 1 poster. Significant patient interaction.
--1,500 hrs: master's thesis experimental research, social science, 2006-2008; 1 conf. presentation
Shadowing: 12 hours, pathology (recent)--1,500 hrs: master's thesis experimental research, social science, 2006-2008; 1 conf. presentation
Non-clinical volunteering:
--1,880 hrs: AmeriCorps VISTA program, facilitated jobs program for under-served teens, 2013-2014.
--120 hrs: helped organize brain cancer benefit 5K run/walk, 2016.
Other extracurricular activities: hiking, church choir--120 hrs: helped organize brain cancer benefit 5K run/walk, 2016.
Anything else not listed you think might be important:
--App will be verified approx. 7/24.
--Never occurred to me to consider DO, but perhaps I should have given my MCAT result. Seems too late to consider DO for this cycle.
School list: I have tons of data on schools, but I'm still stumped on who would be receptive to an older career-changer with a heavy social-science background and with my stats.--Never occurred to me to consider DO, but perhaps I should have given my MCAT result. Seems too late to consider DO for this cycle.
I am looking for as many as 30 total.
So far:
- UC-Davis
- UC-Riverside
- Cal Northstate
- Rosalind Franklin
- Sidney Kimmel
- Loyola
- Rochester (reach)
- Georgetown
- Penn State
- Tufts
- U of Iowa
- U of Miami
- U of Vermont
- VCU
- Wake Forest
- Wayne St.