Hellos! Hoping I could get some input on my school list. Thank you very much in advance for your help!
ORM, Caucasian
ORM, Caucasian
- Year in school: graduated June 2020
- Undergrad: large public school
- Country/state of residence: California
- Cumulative GPA: 3.992
- Science GPA: 3.98
- MCAT Scores: 515 (128/127/131/129)
- Research –
- Basic Science Research; Jan 2018 - Jun 2021; 400 hrs - autoimmune lab focusing on multiple sclerosis; worked with mice, presented research at poster days / symposiums
- Clinical Research; April 2018 - Feb 2021; 600 hrs; worked with cardiac arrhythmia group doing mainly data collection for research projects
- Volunteering (clinical) –
- hospital volunteer internship; 950 hrs; Feb 2018 - Aug 2020 - volunteered in different hospital departments, interacted with patients / nurses
- gained leadership role with helping run the program; Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
- 1300 hrs total; general volunteer; Sept 2017 - June 2021, club focused on running free preventative heart EKG screening for young athletes
- gained leadership role with club; May 2019 - June 2021, as volunteer director, assisted with management of the foundation, creating a more lgbtq+ friendly heart screening process, focusing on trying to bring screenings to underrepresented / underprivileged areas as those are the areas in which incidences of sudden cardiac arrest are the highest
- hospital volunteer internship; 950 hrs; Feb 2018 - Aug 2020 - volunteered in different hospital departments, interacted with patients / nurses
- Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties:
- 225 hrs at various times since June 2017. Shadowed physicians from primary care, peds, surgery, orthopedic surgery, and a lot of cardiac EP.
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- Jan - April 2018; repeated 2019 - general volunteer for Science Olympiad - wrote exams and proctored events
- Jan - April 2020; repeated 2021 - President of school's Science Olympiad chapter - wrote exams / proctored events / kept track of our volunteer base and their work / led general meetings
- undergraduate assistant for systems anatomy class, sept 2019 - dec 2019, 80 hrs, taught systems anatomy topics with the help of human cadavers
- Jan - April 2018; repeated 2019 - general volunteer for Science Olympiad - wrote exams and proctored events
- Employment history:
- Jan 2019 - Jan 2020; 1500 hrs; worked as an EMT
- Feb 2021 - Present; ~650 hours so far; working as clinical research coordinator (SRA II) on many different studies with a cardiac arrhythmia group
- Extracurricular activities:
- Travelers' Century Club (world travelers who have been to 100 countries); Jan 2018 - present; ~ 80 hrs with the club, 1000s of hours traveling
- Immediate family members in medicine? : parents are pharmacists
- Specialty of interest: surgery, but think it's too soon to say definitively
- Graduate degrees: N/A
- Interest in rural health: could be a possibility
- Schools to which I plan on applying:
- all California schools
- SLU
- Quinnipiac
- UCF
- Wake Forest
- Rosalind Franklin
- Creighton
- Georgetown
- George Washington
- NY Medical College
- Temple
- Hackensack Meridian
- VCU
- Wayne State
- EVMS
- FAU
- Loyola Stritch
- Penn State
- Drexel
- NSU
- FIU
- Oakland William Beaumont
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