the_yerd_bird
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I would really appreciate some help on my school list! I've seen some posts with stats similar to mine, but very different activities. Let me know what you think! Looking for edits on my current list, but would also love to hear some new suggestions! Planning on cutting this list down to about 20 schools. Thank you all!
Target
Target, but low yield, so unsure
Potential Reaches:
- cGPA: 3.79 sGPA: 3.86
- MCAT score: 512 (127,128,129,128)
- State of residence: NY
- Undergraduate institution: Small private tech school
- Major: Biology
- Minors: Chemistry, Engineering, Math
- Concentrations: Honors, Pre-Med
- Graduate Institution: Cornell University (technically in the PhD program but currently working towards Masters Degree)
- Major: Biomedical Engineering
- Minors: Biomedical Mechanics, Stem Cell Biology
- Clinical experience:
- Chief of EMS at rural volunteer rescue squad- 500 hours
- Volunteer medical assistant (mission trip to Ecuador)- 100 hours
- Caretaker (24 hours care for family member)- 200 hours
- Research experience:
- Cornell (Graduate)- 4,000 hours
- St Vincents Medical Institute, Australia (clinical research)- 80 hours
- Harvard- 400 hours
- Cornell (Undergraduate)- 400 hours
- Undergrad Institution- 1,000 hours
- 4 publications, including 1 first-coauthor
- 15 research presentations, including 3 national conferences
- Teaching experiences:
- Substitute Teacher-500 hours
- Substitute Aid-700 hours
- Teaching Assistant (Undergraduate Biology)-100 hours
- Outreach Instructor- 25 hours
- Tutor (Physics & Differential Equations)- 20 hours
- Peer Educator- Honors Program Seminar- 25 hours
- Seminar speaker/ organizer- 10 hours
- EMS Instructor- 36 hours
- Coach- 300 hours
- Assistant Coach-50 hours
- Mentor- 10 hours
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented:
- Neurosurgeon-10 hours
- Pediatrician- 20 hours
- Hospitalist- 5 hours
- Pulmonologist- 50 hours
- Flight nurse- 12 hours
- Paramedic- 50 hours
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- Firefighter-260 hours
- Other extracurricular activities:
- See teaching/ coaching experience
- Relevant honors or awards:
- NSF GRFP (2019)
- Most Outstanding Research in University’s Biology Department (2017&2018)
- Thomas F Clough Excellence in Chemical Engineering (2017)
- University’s Phalanx Commendable Leadership Award (2018)
- Best Presentation in Biosciences (2018)
- Best Presentation in Genetics (2017)
- Honors Societies and Other Societies (not sure if I should include these?):
- Honors Program (2015-2019)
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society (2017-2019)
- TriBeta Biological Honors Society- Publication Chair (2018-2019)
- Phalanx- Leadership Honors Society(2018-2019)
- BMES member (2020- Present)
- ORS member (2021- Present)
- SASE member (2018-2019)
- Anything else not listed you think might be important:
- Personal Statement info:
- Cancer Survivor
- Low SES
- Female but ethnic ORM
- 2nd time applicant
- 1 acceptance to my state school, but ended up not liking the program or area
- 1 post-II R to top10 medical school
- Personal Statement info:
Target
- Dartmouth
- California University
- Creighton
- Loma Linda
- Louisville
- U MA
- U South Carolina
- U Vermont
- U AZ Pheonix
- Iowa
- Brown
Target, but low yield, so unsure
- Howard
- U Conn
- U Colorado
- Quinnipiac
- Emory
- Wake Forest
- Tulane
- Tufts
Potential Reaches:
- Duke
- Weill
- Yale
- Vanderbilt
