Hi All,
I believe I have finalized my school list and would love some critique.
GPA: 4.0 for cumulative and science.
MCAT: 519 (131/127/130/131).
Florida resident.
Hispanic, born in Venezuela.
B.S. in Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida (Taking a gap year).
Research: 1 year at a mechanical engineering lab, poster presentation at a nanotech conference. 3 years at a hypertension lab. Started off as a lab tech but I got hired after a few months as a research assistant and this was also my employment (Averaged 20 hrs/week during semesters of class during that time). During my gap year, I will be working full time with the same lab on my own project.
Pubs: One paper out now, another one about to submit but didn't put it on the application. The current one was published in Circulation Research (IF: 11). Also one abstract published.
Clinical Volunteering: 320 hours at the main hospital in seven or so different departments, 540 hours as an exercise tech intern at a physical therapy clinic (My major had this thing where instead of taking classes your last semester you could intern full-time at a clinic so it was for credit).
Non-Clinical Vol: 60 hours as a first responder for a unit on campus (90% of it was trainings, meetings, standby at events kind of stuff), 30 hours for the American Red Cross, 20 hours for community outreach program playing soccer with children of special needs.
Leadership: Lab coordinator and TA for first responders course for 2 years and some change.
Shadowing: 2 ortho surgeons, one sports med, and the other trauma/ joint surgeon. 60 hours total.
Awards: Presidential Service Award for community service hours, multiple dean's list/ president's honor roll.
LOR's: My PI who used to be a dean of UF's med school, 1 MD/PhD letter, 2 science profs, 1 non-science prof, 1 from a Physical Therapist, 1 from a cop, and 1 from a paramedic.
Interested in going into surgery residency, would preferably like to go to a school in a big city but willing to compromise a bit (suburban-ish). Looking for advice on school list and would love some info on what the cities themselves are like too!
School List:
I believe I have finalized my school list and would love some critique.
GPA: 4.0 for cumulative and science.
MCAT: 519 (131/127/130/131).
Florida resident.
Hispanic, born in Venezuela.
B.S. in Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida (Taking a gap year).
Research: 1 year at a mechanical engineering lab, poster presentation at a nanotech conference. 3 years at a hypertension lab. Started off as a lab tech but I got hired after a few months as a research assistant and this was also my employment (Averaged 20 hrs/week during semesters of class during that time). During my gap year, I will be working full time with the same lab on my own project.
Pubs: One paper out now, another one about to submit but didn't put it on the application. The current one was published in Circulation Research (IF: 11). Also one abstract published.
Clinical Volunteering: 320 hours at the main hospital in seven or so different departments, 540 hours as an exercise tech intern at a physical therapy clinic (My major had this thing where instead of taking classes your last semester you could intern full-time at a clinic so it was for credit).
Non-Clinical Vol: 60 hours as a first responder for a unit on campus (90% of it was trainings, meetings, standby at events kind of stuff), 30 hours for the American Red Cross, 20 hours for community outreach program playing soccer with children of special needs.
Leadership: Lab coordinator and TA for first responders course for 2 years and some change.
Shadowing: 2 ortho surgeons, one sports med, and the other trauma/ joint surgeon. 60 hours total.
Awards: Presidential Service Award for community service hours, multiple dean's list/ president's honor roll.
LOR's: My PI who used to be a dean of UF's med school, 1 MD/PhD letter, 2 science profs, 1 non-science prof, 1 from a Physical Therapist, 1 from a cop, and 1 from a paramedic.
Interested in going into surgery residency, would preferably like to go to a school in a big city but willing to compromise a bit (suburban-ish). Looking for advice on school list and would love some info on what the cities themselves are like too!
School List:
- Harvard (Boston, MA)
- Stanford (Palo Alto, CA)
- Hopkins (Baltimore, MD)
- UC-San Francisco
- U. Pennsylvania
- Columbia University (New York City)
- Washington Univ. St. Louis
- UC- Los Angeles
- New York Univ. (NYC)
- Vanderbilt (Nashville)
- U. Chicago
- U. Pittsburgh
- Northwestern (Evanston, IL)
- Cornell (NYC)
- Icahn (Mt. Sinai) (NYC)
- Emory (Atlanta, GA)
- Case Western (University Program or College Program) (Cleveland, OH)
- UVA (Charlottesville, Virginia)
- Boston University
- U. Florida (Gainesville, FL)
- U. Miami
- U. South Florida (Tampa, FL)
