Hello, I'm very new to this forum so hopefully I'm getting the formatting right!
The difference between the gpa and MCAT is giving me some trouble when comparing stats to school so I just wanted to know what schools seem like a reasonable balance.
I also have a lot of things I started since high-school and I know that the hours don't count but does the continuity count for anything?
The difference between the gpa and MCAT is giving me some trouble when comparing stats to school so I just wanted to know what schools seem like a reasonable balance.
I also have a lot of things I started since high-school and I know that the hours don't count but does the continuity count for anything?
- cGPA: 3.99, sGPA: 4.0
- MCAT: 516, (130/128/129/129)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
- US citizen but not in-state anywhere due to growing up outside of US, did spend the past 3 yrs in CA and worked 1 yr but I don't think that counts as CA resident...
- Ethnicity and/or race
- Asian
- Undergraduate institution or category
- So-Cal: private
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Hospital volunteering (Have been doing since high school which adds up to ~300h),
- ~100h: if counting only after the year I started college it’s about
- Two, one-week long medical trip to east rural china. One in the spring before college and one freshman year. Provided medical aid, public health education, and water-line construction to the local aboriginals
- ~80h/trip actually interaction with patients
- Done a few shadow round with EMT and experienced a case of patient dumping that really impacted me
- ~24h
- Hospital volunteering (Have been doing since high school which adds up to ~300h),
- Research experience and productivity
- Worked in a wet lab for one summer (2 mo): found that I didn’t like wet labs...at all
- Work(ing) in a dry lab that I love! for ~2 years
- One poster
- Two other abstracts accepted in a conference that got canceled due to covid.
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- Did internship with anesthesiology dept one summer
- ~110h total
- Prob not clinical because didn’t actually get to interact with patients, and the few interactions were when they were already unconscious (BLS work)
- Coordinated a lot of administration work too
- A week with many departments: total
- ~40h (internal, ped, IR, Ortho, gen Surg)
- Did internship with anesthesiology dept one summer
- Non-clinical volunteering
- I am super passionate about teaching!
- Working with local low income elementary students (multiple programs)
- ~280h
- Does food bank once in a while when I see sign-ups
- ~20h
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Leadership in a pre-med club
- Recruitment, then Co-director in an educational philanthropy
- TA for low-income high school student for a year (paid: under dept of edu.)
- Relevant honors or awards
- Academic merit reward
- Research funding
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- Would having an EMT certification help me even when I never really had a chance to be an actual EMT?
- Strong LOR
