littleblue888
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State/Country of Residence: GA
Ties to other States/Regions: strong ties to southern CA (immediate family)
URM? (Y/N): no
Year in School: senior
Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Neuroscience and music composition
Cumulative GPA: 3.97
Science GPA: 3.92
MCAT Score(s): 522 (131/129/132/130)
Research Experience:
Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer):
Non-Clinical Volunteering:
Specialty of Interest (if applicable): not sure yet, curious about anesthesia
Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): probably not
Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): no
Medical School List: I made an initial list with admit.org, then added a bunch of mid tiers since it felt way too top heavy, but now I have 56 schools and unsure how to narrow down to 35.
Ties to other States/Regions: strong ties to southern CA (immediate family)
URM? (Y/N): no
Year in School: senior
Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Neuroscience and music composition
Cumulative GPA: 3.97
Science GPA: 3.92
MCAT Score(s): 522 (131/129/132/130)
Research Experience:
- 80 hours as a music therapy researcher (mostly writing summaries and interviewing music therapists)
- projected 300-400 hours as a clinical research assistant (doing this for my gap year + scribing); patient interviewing, data collection/analysis
Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer):
- 800 hours scribing in a heme/onc clinic, expecting to add a few hundred more during my gap year
- 100 hours volunteering at an infusion center
Non-Clinical Volunteering:
- 150 hours as a volunteer orientation leader for first year students
- 200 hours teaching underserved children at a library
- 1000 hours leading, arranging, and teaching music for two a cappella groups as co-president and music director, won awards in competitive a cappella
- Thousands of hours in competitive Rubik’s cube speedsolving since I was 11, ranked top 15 in the state, but I’ve stopped competing since 2022
- 250 hours as an orientation coordinator (recruiting, hiring, training new orientation leaders, emphasis on servant leadership)
- 100 hours as a bio lab TA
- 100 hours as a chemistry supplemental instructor
- Work as a freelance music producer/arranger, have done a few projects for small artists
Specialty of Interest (if applicable): not sure yet, curious about anesthesia
Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): probably not
Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): no
Medical School List: I made an initial list with admit.org, then added a bunch of mid tiers since it felt way too top heavy, but now I have 56 schools and unsure how to narrow down to 35.
- Harvard
- Hopkins
- UPenn
- Columbia
- Stanford
- UCSF
- Duke
- Vanderbilt
- WashU
- Cornell
- NYU
- Yale
- Michigan
- Northwestern
- Pitt
- Mayo Clinic
- Icahn
- UChicago
- UCLA
- UCSD
- Baylor
- Emory
- UT Southwestern
- Case Western Reserve
- Colorado
- Ohio State
- USC
- UVA
- Rochester
- BU
- Brown
- Wisconsin
- Cincinatti
- UC Irvine
- UMass
- Miami
- Iowa
- USF
- Long
- Tufts
- Sidney Kimmel
- Stony Brook
- VCU
- Vermont
- Hofstra
- MCG
- Hackensack
- SLU
- Geisinger
- USC Greenville
- UCF
- Quinnipiac
- Western Michigan
- UA Phoenix
- MCW