- Joined
- Jun 14, 2018
- Messages
- 22
- Reaction score
- 2
- Year in school: Just graduated. BS in Biology and Philosophy
- Country/state of residence: NY
- ORM
- Cumulative GPA: 3.86
- Science GPA: 3.87
- MCAT Scores: 520 (131/129/130/130)
- Research – include any abstracts/posters/publications and how you were credited (eg. First author, senior author, etc): Worked as a research assistant in a lab studying brown algae my sophomore year. Worked in a lab my junior year that studying plant population genetics and was first author on a poster presentation. Summer between junior year, I did clinical research and am first author on a manuscript that will be accepted for publication in a journal soon. I worked as a mentor to four high school students one summer and we carried out a research project in ecology (put this down as a "teaching" experience, but it was also research as we completed a poster of which I was first author).
- Volunteering (clinical) – include hours/sites: 154 hours as a patient rounding volunteer (visit with patients, get them anything they need, and make conversation) at a hospital. This was three hours a week. [I'm going to be starting a volunteer position at a hospital closer to home in the next month or so.]
- Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties: None
- Non-clinical volunteering: 40 hours at a hospitality house (a place that provides a place to live for people who would otherwise would be homeless and provides meals to homeless). Also did some smaller, one off events with an honor society I am in.
- Extracurricular activities: Worked for three years with the undergraduate research journal at my school. Was book review editor my junior year and editor-in-chief my senior year. I was part of a residence hall association as president of my dorm's board and we put on a bunch of events in our dorm and helped raise money for a charity.
- Employment history: Graded homework for math professors one year as a part time gig.
- I'll be completing a Masters in Ethics and Society as part of a five-year program at my undergrad institution this upcoming year.
- Interest in rural health (y/n): No
In no particular order:
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Upsate
Stony Brook
MCW (have ties)
Einstein
BU
Case Western
Columbia
Hofstra
Duke
Emory
Icahn
Johns Hopkins
USC-Keck
NYU
Ohio State
University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Jefferson
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Wisconsin
Vandy
Wake Forest
Weill Cornell
Yale
University of Michigan
Temple
Tufts
Would love to know if I'm too top heavy and what some other options worth considering would be. Thanks in advance.
