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I am wondering if my list is well-rounded enough? Are there any you suggest getting rid of or adding? Thank you everyone for your help and advice!
- State/Country of Residence: Kentucky
- Ties to other States/Regions: Florida, Wisconsin
- Year in School: Junior
- Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Vocal performance (Bachelors of Music) with minors in biology and chemistry
- Graduate Degrees (if applicable): N/A
- Cumulative GPA: 3.99
- Science GPA: 3.99
- MCAT Score(s): 516 (129/130/127/130)
- Research Experience: 1 year in clinical psychology (promoted from individual study student to research assistant), 2 semesters in linguistic psychology with second author paper, current research in muscular biophysics with third author paper (~600 hours total)
- Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. First author, second author, etc.): first author poster presented at two conferences on pediatric psychology, second author paper in Memory and Cognition, third author paper in Journal of Cell Muscle Research and Cell Motility
- Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): ~150 hours volunteering at hospital, ~150 hours at daycare for kids with mental and physical disabilities, ~30 hours sing for patients undergoing chemotherapy
- Physician Shadowing: (~130 total hours) pediatrics, electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, internal medicine, pathology, neonatology
- Non-Clinical Volunteering: I am the National Projects Manager of a 501(c)(3) non-profit (500 hours) that provides artistic and musical opportunities to underserved populations, created the Arts for Alzheimer's project at a hospital (100 hours), leadership- president of the chapter of this non-profit at my university
- Other Extracurricular Activities: Being a music major, I have participated in musical theatre and opera productions (600 hours). I also sing in choir which goes on tours abroad (100 hours). I have won many vocal performance awards for both musical theatre and opera.
- Other Employment History: Worked on an organic farm for two summers (480 hours), work part-time as a babysitter (200 hours), worked at a summer camp for children with special needs as a substitute music therapist (80 hours)
- *LORS: have great letters from music faculty, organic chemistry professor and laboratory professor, all research mentors, volunteering program director, two physicians, and prominent English professor from a Shakespeare class
- Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): Uncle is OBGYN, close family friend OBGYN
- Specialty of Interest (if applicable): pediatrics or cardiology
- Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): possibly
- Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): N (more interest in urban health)
- Medical School List:
- UChicago
- Columbia
- Harvard
- University of Michigan (connection)
- University of Kentucky (state school)
- University of Louisville (state school)
- Boston University
- University of Cincinnati
- Ohio State
- Duke
- Emory
- University of Wisconsin- Madison (family connection)
- Vanderbilt
- Brown
- Northwestern
- NYU
- Stanford
- Mayo Clinic (family connection)
- University of Pittsburgh
- UCSF
- Yale
- UPenn
- Cornell
- Case Western
- UF (connection)
- Tufts