Hey! I am planning on submitting my medical school application within the next week and a half and was interested in hearing any of your thoughts on my chances and my school list. Thanks in advance!
Background
Age: 19 (I skipped 9th grade; am graduating UCLA this Fall)- do you think this will be a problem?
Ethnicity: White
School: UCLA- Marine biology major, history minor (I know this is pretty untraditional)
State of residence: CA my whole life
GPA: 3.69 cGPA (definite upward trend, should have 3.7+ by the end of the quarter), 3.57 sGPA
MCAT: 127/128/128/129 = 512
Clinical experience
1 year - UCLA Stroke Force (worked alongside ER docs at ronald reagan, enrolled patients in clinical trials, reported patient history, attended neurorounds & several surgeries; also spoke about stroke at community health fairs)
3 years (to present)- AIPC Sleep clinic (used to be administrative assistant and am now a historian at private practice- paid)
6 months (to present)- shadowed physician (industrial medicine)
Research experience
1.5 years (to present)- neurodegenerative disease research (working on my own independent research project and collaborating on three other projects; no publications yet, but won a summer stipend for my work)
1 year- neuro-opthalmology research (drafted IRBs, study proposals, analyzed clinical data, shadowed physician)
Non-clinical volunteering
3 years (to present)- Watt's tutorial program (tutor for K-12 students from the Watt's area in south LA)
2 years (to present)- formerly clinical research director for student-run nonprofit (yr1) and now coordinator for student-run respite program for seniors with alzheimers (yr2-present)
2013, returned in 2017 (to present)- volunteer at a senior home, personal companion to resident with alzheimer's
winter break (2015, 2016)- discovery corps volunteer in guatemala and peru (as tutor)
Other
2 quarters- Undergraduate assistant (like a TA) for biology lab course
Honors/awards
college honors
Irving and Jean stone research award (2017)
certificate of congressional recognition, mayoral recognition, LAPD recognition (2013, for my work with A Better LA, proposed and headed project which culminated in the donation of 1000+ backpacks filled with school supplies and food)
This is the list I have so far:
Tulane University
Rosalind Franklin University
New York Medical College
Loyola University Chicago
UC Davis
Drexel University
UC Riverside
Virgina Commonwealth University
Georgetown University
Tufts University
University of Southern California
UCLA
Emory University
Boston University
UC Irvine
UCSF
UCSD
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University
Harvard University
Columbia University
Albert Einstein
Mt. Sinai
FSU
Northwestern
Background
Age: 19 (I skipped 9th grade; am graduating UCLA this Fall)- do you think this will be a problem?
Ethnicity: White
School: UCLA- Marine biology major, history minor (I know this is pretty untraditional)
State of residence: CA my whole life
GPA: 3.69 cGPA (definite upward trend, should have 3.7+ by the end of the quarter), 3.57 sGPA
MCAT: 127/128/128/129 = 512
Clinical experience
1 year - UCLA Stroke Force (worked alongside ER docs at ronald reagan, enrolled patients in clinical trials, reported patient history, attended neurorounds & several surgeries; also spoke about stroke at community health fairs)
3 years (to present)- AIPC Sleep clinic (used to be administrative assistant and am now a historian at private practice- paid)
6 months (to present)- shadowed physician (industrial medicine)
Research experience
1.5 years (to present)- neurodegenerative disease research (working on my own independent research project and collaborating on three other projects; no publications yet, but won a summer stipend for my work)
1 year- neuro-opthalmology research (drafted IRBs, study proposals, analyzed clinical data, shadowed physician)
Non-clinical volunteering
3 years (to present)- Watt's tutorial program (tutor for K-12 students from the Watt's area in south LA)
2 years (to present)- formerly clinical research director for student-run nonprofit (yr1) and now coordinator for student-run respite program for seniors with alzheimers (yr2-present)
2013, returned in 2017 (to present)- volunteer at a senior home, personal companion to resident with alzheimer's
winter break (2015, 2016)- discovery corps volunteer in guatemala and peru (as tutor)
Other
2 quarters- Undergraduate assistant (like a TA) for biology lab course
Honors/awards
college honors
Irving and Jean stone research award (2017)
certificate of congressional recognition, mayoral recognition, LAPD recognition (2013, for my work with A Better LA, proposed and headed project which culminated in the donation of 1000+ backpacks filled with school supplies and food)
This is the list I have so far:
Tulane University
Rosalind Franklin University
New York Medical College
Loyola University Chicago
UC Davis
Drexel University
UC Riverside
Virgina Commonwealth University
Georgetown University
Tufts University
University of Southern California
UCLA
Emory University
Boston University
UC Irvine
UCSF
UCSD
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University
Harvard University
Columbia University
Albert Einstein
Mt. Sinai
FSU
Northwestern
