School list help (cGPA 3.69, sGPA 3.5, MCAT 518)

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IntelligentFault

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  • State/Country of Residence: New York
  • Ties to other States/Regions: Grew up in/did undergrad in/have family in Texas
  • Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Psychology major/biology minor
  • Graduate Degrees (if applicable): Masters in clinical psychology
  • Cumulative GPA: 3.69 (undergraduate = 3.63, graduate = 3.91)
  • Science GPA: 3.50 (undergraduate = 3.42, graduate = 4.0)
  • MCAT Score(s): 518
  • LORS: 7 total (not sending all of them to every school). 3 PIs (one is an MD) and 4 professors (3 science and 1 non science; 2 undergrad and 2 grad)
  • Research Experience: ~7500. I've done some undergrad research into memory (2 semesters), interned in a psychiatry lab where I did a thesis and was published/did a poster (one year), interned in a basic neuroscience lab where I did a poster/was published (2 years), and now work full time as a clinical research coordinator in a psychiatry lab at a major hospital (2 years)
  • Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. First author, second author, etc.): 2 posters (one at a major neuroscience conferences and one at my grad university where it won an award), 2 accepted publications (one review as first author and another as third author), 2 additional publications under review (middle author in a long list)
  • Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): ~40 in a blood/tissue center, ~1800 as a unit clerk at a rural hospital, and now ~5000 as a clinical research coordinator helping diagnose psych patients or assist in ketamine/ECT (Volunteering as a crisis advocate to start in the fall. :'( Delayed cause of covid )
  • Physician Shadowing: ~86 hours between two hospitals with anesthesiology, internal medicine, and general medicine
  • Non-Clinical Volunteering: ~115 with jumpstart (teach for america program).
  • Other Extracurricular Activities: VP of a graduate psych society, missions chair for a sorority, and community service award
  • Other Employment History: Teaching assistant for 1 year, resident assistant in undergrad for 2 years, and worked at a college bar for 1 year
  • Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): Y
Current list:
  • Mount Sinai
  • Rutgers
  • Temple
  • Tufts (MD + MD/PhD)
  • Drexel
  • Baylor (MD + MD/PhD)
  • UT Southwestern (MD + MD/PhD)
  • UT San Antonio (MD + MD/PhD)
  • UT Houston (MD + MD/PhD)
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Boston
  • Georgetown
  • Duke
  • SUNY Downstate
  • Emory
  • Penn State
  • UT Austin
  • Oregon
  • Tulane (MD + MD/PhD)
  • George Washington
  • New York Medical
  • UNC Chapel Hill (MD + MD/PhD)
  • Houston
  • UC Davis
  • Albany
  • Colorado (MD + MD/PhD)
  • Cooper
  • Oklahoma (MD + MD/PhD)
Considering:
  • SUNY Upstate
  • Albert Einstein
  • Vermont
  • Pittsburgh
  • Dartmouth
  • Washington

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