- Joined
- Jan 25, 2022
- Messages
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- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts.
C/P: felt amazing, it just all flowed together for me on test day.
CARS: disappointed, thought I would get a 125, maybe squeeze out a 126.
B/B: similar to Chem/Phys, it felt pretty good.
P/S: just so shocked and frustrated, cannot believe this section was my downfall somehow.
FL Avg: 505 (126.5/125.5/126.75/126)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
- Ethnicity and/or race
- Undergraduate institution or category
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Phlebotomist (~600 hours) (stopped) (8 months)
- Medical Assistant, very vague because don’t want to dox myself because of details given below (~45 hours/week) (will be doing for ~1.5 years during 2 GAP YEARS) so ESTIMATE ~3510 hours
- ER Volunteer (200 hours) (stopped)
- Research experience and productivity
- Very tiny lab so things were slow, was only able to get a poster.
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- Internal Medicine Primary Care (37 hours)
- Urology (24 hours)
- Ophthalmology (10 hours)
- I plan to shadow as many specialties as humanly possible during these two gap years. Will probably amount to ~150 hours give or take.
- Non-clinical volunteering
- Red Cross Disaster Action Team Member (500 hours) (on-going) ~1000 hours by time of application. (very significant activity which I will continue doing throughout med school and probably the rest of my life)
- Powerlifting Competition Handler (50 hours) (on-going) ~100 hours by time of application
- [Country of Origin] Military Aid Package Volunteer (50 hours) (stopped) but I doubt I will put this in the app.
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Janitor (6 years beginning in highschool) (stopped) ~1100 hours
Leadership
- Sunday League Football, co-captain of my soccer team (~2 years) (stopped) ~500 hours
- Red Cross DAT Supervisor (promoted about 1.5 years in)
- Learning Assistant and Grader (120 hours) (stopped)
- Business Startup Presentation, worked with a small group to help a local startup with their pitch to investors. It was part of a specific undergrad course though so again, not sure if worth to include this but it was a really cool experience. (130 hours)
Hobbies
- Powerlifting (5 years) (on-going)
- Working on Cars (8 years)
Two Gap Years
- Medical Assistant (as mentioned above). The doctor I am working for is SUPER WELL known in my state in her specialty, she is one of the best. She is also active at one of the medical schools. She loves teaching and she offers some really amazing opportunities for her workers who are almost all pre-health of some kind. Again, I don’t wanna get into specifics but these should hopefully be awesome additions to my application.
- I was thinking about getting involved in something relevant to my app clinical research in the next couple of months but the iffy MCAT score kinda stumped me. I was really hoping I would pull off 509-510. I am just kinda confused where to go from here and what more I can do.
- No issues with also applying DO. Other than in-state, I prefer the West, Southwest and South but it’s more-so because I like the environment and weather there.
- Specialty that I really like: Pathology, but yes I KNOW MANY PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
- Relevant honors or awards
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- Came to the US from a third-world country from a small village in Eastern Europe about 15 years ago
- Low SES, FAP recipient, First-gen everything (university and medicine)
- Trilingual
- So far, 4 LORs: 1 PI (strong, we really have a good relationship due to being from the same side of the world, etc etc), 1 science (hopefully above average), 1 history (probably average), 1 MD (just from shadowing him so probably average). I will definitely get one more from the doctor I am working with. Do I need any more?
13. School List (generated by admit.org)
Reach
- Wayne State University
- Western Michigan
- Michigan State University
- Central Michigan
- Oakland University
- Hackensack Meridian
- Eastern Virginia
- Temple University
- Tulane University
- Jefferson (Kimmel)
- Georgetown University
- Wake Forest
- Creighton University
- Virginia Commonwealth
- Saint Louis University
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Rosalind Franklin
- University of Vermont
- Penn State University
- Rush University
- Drexel University
- Quinnipiac University
- Loyola University (Stritch)
- Albany Medical College
- Texas Christian University (?)
Target
- Michigan State COM
- LECOM (Erie)
- LECOM (Bradenton)
- Campbell University
- Des Moines University
- Touro COM (Harlem)
Base
- WCU COM
- PCOM
- Nova Southeastern (Patel - DO)
- VCOM (Virginia)
- University of Pikeville
- Marian University
- ATSU (Kirksville)
- Midwestern University (Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine)
- NYIT - COM
- Noorda COM
- Incarnate Word
Thank you so much in advance!
