HazelHippie
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Hello All! I've been on this forum for a while. I love how helpful everyone is on here. I would like help with building a school list.
Notes : Previously been in combined BA/MD program but withdrew in good standing due to illness. This condition is resolved. Graduated undergrad in 2016.
I have a school list but I don't know where I stand a chance TBH with my MCAT and previous attendance of a med school.
Would love to know where is best for me to apply in general and which schools to take off this list.\
Regional preferences (if I can afford any) - parts of East Coast, Cali, Pacific Northwest.
Would like it to be diverse if possible. Have had a racist experience at a graduate school before that was so bad I decided not to attend :<
Notes : Previously been in combined BA/MD program but withdrew in good standing due to illness. This condition is resolved. Graduated undergrad in 2016.
- 3.5C and 3.3S - Sociology B.A
- First try MCAT : 502 - C/P (123) CARS (127) B/B (125) P/S (127)
- California Resident + Permanent Asylum Status (am allowed to attend school same as Permanent Resident)
- East African Female 24 y/o
- Non-ivy undergrad institution.
- Over 150 hours of direct medical volunteering working with homeless pts as an undergrad med student and post-undergraduate volunteer.
- 330 hours Shadowing/physician learning groups during ba/md program
- 730 hours non-med volunteering - many self initiated projects to do with global health fundraising, refugee relief, mentorship of urm students, gathering hygiene products for homeless women.
- Tutored bio/sciences to middle and high school students.
- 2640 hours; Worked at electronic health record company as traveling hospital consultant
- A full ride scholarship based on merit to my undergraduate - room, board, tuition, supplemental!
- Languages : Swahili, Conversational Mandarin (studied from middle school to college) and Intermediate Spanish
- I have been told I have a strong personal statement and an intriguing life story as a refugee who seeks to serve others. I survived cerebral malaria while living in a refugee camp as a child. First woman in my family to attend college. Barely escaped being arranged married right after high school. Parents are working class. Lived in underserved neighborhood all my life till recently. Genuinely interested in global health, rural health, indigenous peoples health and serving where I am most needed.
I have a school list but I don't know where I stand a chance TBH with my MCAT and previous attendance of a med school.
Would love to know where is best for me to apply in general and which schools to take off this list.\
Regional preferences (if I can afford any) - parts of East Coast, Cali, Pacific Northwest.
Would like it to be diverse if possible. Have had a racist experience at a graduate school before that was so bad I decided not to attend :<
| Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine |
| Drexel University College of Medicine |
| Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine |
| Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University |
| University of Minnesota Medical School |
| Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center |
| Hackensack-Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University |
| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University |
| Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine |
| Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School |
| University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| Boston University School of Medicine |
| University of California San Francisco |
| UCLA-David Geffen School of Medicine |
| Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California |
| University of California Irvine |
| University of California San Diego |
| University of California Riverside |
| Dartmouth College |
| Tufts University School of Medicine |
| PCOM |
