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Year in school: Senior.
Country/state of residence: Pennsylvania.
Schools to which you are applying:
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Sidney Kimmel Medical College (Jefferson)
Lewis Katz School of Medicine (Temple)
Penn State College of Medicine
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Cumulative GPA: 3.84
Science GPA: 3.88
MCAT Scores: 512 (129/125/130/128)
Research: Research in Microbiology lab for two years, presented poster at my school.
Research at NCI Cancer Center for summer. 6th author on paper in Cancer Biology & therapy and 3rd author on poster presented at ASTRO conference.
Volunteering (clinical): 80 hours at free clinic (2h per week), 53 hours in ER (4h per week), week-long medical mission trip to Haiti.
Physician shadowing: 18h Family Medicine, 13h Palliative Care, 18h Radiation Oncology, 16h Surgical Oncology, 10h Medical Oncology.
Non-clinical volunteering: Week-long service trip to Nicaragua, service chair of club on campus (100h).
Extracurricular activities: President of club for two years, board member of pre-med club for two years, teaching assistant for two years.
Employment history: Standardized patient for 4 years, peer tutor for 3 years, work-study job, worked in retail during freshman year, worked at restaurant summer after freshman year.
Immediate family members in medicine? No.
Specialty of interest: One of the Oncology specialties.
Graduate degrees: None.
Interest in rural health: Possibly.
I have ties to Geisinger Commonwealth and feel fairly confident I will be accepted due to being from Lackawanna County. I am hoping to not break the bank applying to schools, so I was wondering what, if any, other schools I should also apply to. I would like to be no more than a 3 hour drive from Lackawanna County. Possibly some schools in New York, but I'm not sure which ones are within reach given my stats and are OOS friendly. Thanks for any input!
Country/state of residence: Pennsylvania.
Schools to which you are applying:
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Sidney Kimmel Medical College (Jefferson)
Lewis Katz School of Medicine (Temple)
Penn State College of Medicine
???
Cumulative GPA: 3.84
Science GPA: 3.88
MCAT Scores: 512 (129/125/130/128)
Research: Research in Microbiology lab for two years, presented poster at my school.
Research at NCI Cancer Center for summer. 6th author on paper in Cancer Biology & therapy and 3rd author on poster presented at ASTRO conference.
Volunteering (clinical): 80 hours at free clinic (2h per week), 53 hours in ER (4h per week), week-long medical mission trip to Haiti.
Physician shadowing: 18h Family Medicine, 13h Palliative Care, 18h Radiation Oncology, 16h Surgical Oncology, 10h Medical Oncology.
Non-clinical volunteering: Week-long service trip to Nicaragua, service chair of club on campus (100h).
Extracurricular activities: President of club for two years, board member of pre-med club for two years, teaching assistant for two years.
Employment history: Standardized patient for 4 years, peer tutor for 3 years, work-study job, worked in retail during freshman year, worked at restaurant summer after freshman year.
Immediate family members in medicine? No.
Specialty of interest: One of the Oncology specialties.
Graduate degrees: None.
Interest in rural health: Possibly.
I have ties to Geisinger Commonwealth and feel fairly confident I will be accepted due to being from Lackawanna County. I am hoping to not break the bank applying to schools, so I was wondering what, if any, other schools I should also apply to. I would like to be no more than a 3 hour drive from Lackawanna County. Possibly some schools in New York, but I'm not sure which ones are within reach given my stats and are OOS friendly. Thanks for any input!
