LivinLike-Larry
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I was just looking for some brutal honesty in whether or not I should bother adding more T20's or not. After receiving an interview from Pitt I began to worry I sold my self short with my school list. I am extremely grateful thus far but don't want to look back on my application with any regrets ya know? Just looking to see if anyone out there knows more than me about where individuals similar to I stand in the application process. I applied to 42 schools with 6 being t20s. Thank you guys for any input you give!
cGPA: 3.74 (medium upward trend)
sGPA: 3.7
MCAT: 506 (choked it) —> 516 (132/125/129/130)
State: CA resident
Ethnicity/Race: Hispanic/Mexican American, Low SES, first-generation
Undergraduate Institution: Community College (Associate's in Psychology) —> UC Santa Barbara (BS in Biopsychology)
Clinical Experience:
Research: Wet Neuroscience Lab. I talk a lot about how I performed terminal surgeries and retinal dissections (~570 hours)
Shadowing: None
Non-clinical Volunteering:
ECs:
Honors/rewards: none
LoRs
PI from research lab
Biochemistry professor (same guy as the bio TA / peer mentor activity)
Emergency Department MD
Writing health professions professor
Devereux program coordinator
Volunteer coordinator for the geriatric clients
Elementary school volunteer coordinator
Additional
App is centered around growing up with single mother and witnessing the effects that a lower SES has on those who compose it. Serving the underserved.
Mentioned in all secondaries how I have been teaching myself Spanish for a few months now.
Everyone who reviewed my app has told me it was very strongly written.
cGPA: 3.74 (medium upward trend)
sGPA: 3.7
MCAT: 506 (choked it) —> 516 (132/125/129/130)
State: CA resident
Ethnicity/Race: Hispanic/Mexican American, Low SES, first-generation
Undergraduate Institution: Community College (Associate's in Psychology) —> UC Santa Barbara (BS in Biopsychology)
Clinical Experience:
- Devereux: Hospice care for physically and mentally disabled (~1350 hours)
- ED scribe @ tier I hospital (~800 hours)
- Currently working full-time as an MA at general surgery clinic
Research: Wet Neuroscience Lab. I talk a lot about how I performed terminal surgeries and retinal dissections (~570 hours)
Shadowing: None
Non-clinical Volunteering:
- Trainer and volunteer who visited geriatric patients in residency homes and talked to them weekly. (~170 hours) (MM)
- Homeless shelter/soup kitchen. (~100 hours)
- Taught elementary school kids science through experiments. (~90 hours)
ECs:
- Worked at subway full-time during my first two years of community college and part-time during my first year at UCSB. Manager position towards the later half of my time working there. (~4800 hours)
- Social chair for pre-medical fraternity (1 year)
- Executive council: Treasurer for pre-medical fraternity (1 year) (MM)
- Executive council: Secretary of Organization for First-Generation Student Club (~2 years)
- Executive council: Co-President for First-Generation Student Club (~1 years)
- EMT Training/Certification
- TA for bio class
- Peer Mentor for 2nd year undergrads. Taught how to time manage, study, and care for their well-being.
Honors/rewards: none
LoRs
PI from research lab
Biochemistry professor (same guy as the bio TA / peer mentor activity)
Emergency Department MD
Writing health professions professor
Devereux program coordinator
Volunteer coordinator for the geriatric clients
Elementary school volunteer coordinator
Additional
App is centered around growing up with single mother and witnessing the effects that a lower SES has on those who compose it. Serving the underserved.
Mentioned in all secondaries how I have been teaching myself Spanish for a few months now.
Everyone who reviewed my app has told me it was very strongly written.
