Already applied without knowing my MCAT score, but applied to 20 DOs broadly across the East Coast to the middle U.S. Here is my background (Still have MD applications open but plan to withdraw more than likely):
1. cGPA: 3.38, sGPA: 3.11
2. MCAT: 501, 123/126/125/127 (Previous scores: 496,498,498)
3. I am from NY
4. ORM, SES, First-generation college student
5. T50 Undergrad
6. 1100 hours as a CNA, 250 hours in hospitality at a hospital, 200 hours as a volunteer EMT, 30 hours COVID testing for my university
7. 2800 hours of clinical research at a T10 MD school, 40 hours of non-lab research (survey-based)
8. 30 hours shadowing, 15 with an orthopedic surgeon, 15 with a dermatologist
9. 100 hours volunteering with Special Olympics (leadership in the program)
10. 1200 hours starting my own sports media organization, 350 hours working for a sports memorabilia company working with professional athletes, 500 hours as a waiter, 1000 hours recreation basketball (started a league in my town), 640 hours as a head camp counselor, 1000 hours working for my family business
Other information to know:
- My hours are extensive but for basketball and my family business for example I started them at 14 years old.
Very important to my story:
-I grew up in a single-parent household below the poverty line and I was evicted from my childhood home. Present day we live much better off, but I have that experience to tell in my writing.
-My GPA per year breaks down to: 3.69. 3.43, 2.95, 3.50
In my junior year of college, my mother got cancer in the midst of COVID and I started working full-time on top of school. I also became primary caretaker of my sister during this time so academics fell into the background, as reflected in my GPA that year.
Edit: Letters of rec include: My school's pre-med committee, a priest who was also my professor at school, my O-chem professor, and the orthopedic surgeon I shadowed.
1. cGPA: 3.38, sGPA: 3.11
2. MCAT: 501, 123/126/125/127 (Previous scores: 496,498,498)
3. I am from NY
4. ORM, SES, First-generation college student
5. T50 Undergrad
6. 1100 hours as a CNA, 250 hours in hospitality at a hospital, 200 hours as a volunteer EMT, 30 hours COVID testing for my university
7. 2800 hours of clinical research at a T10 MD school, 40 hours of non-lab research (survey-based)
8. 30 hours shadowing, 15 with an orthopedic surgeon, 15 with a dermatologist
9. 100 hours volunteering with Special Olympics (leadership in the program)
10. 1200 hours starting my own sports media organization, 350 hours working for a sports memorabilia company working with professional athletes, 500 hours as a waiter, 1000 hours recreation basketball (started a league in my town), 640 hours as a head camp counselor, 1000 hours working for my family business
Other information to know:
- My hours are extensive but for basketball and my family business for example I started them at 14 years old.
Very important to my story:
-I grew up in a single-parent household below the poverty line and I was evicted from my childhood home. Present day we live much better off, but I have that experience to tell in my writing.
-My GPA per year breaks down to: 3.69. 3.43, 2.95, 3.50
In my junior year of college, my mother got cancer in the midst of COVID and I started working full-time on top of school. I also became primary caretaker of my sister during this time so academics fell into the background, as reflected in my GPA that year.
Edit: Letters of rec include: My school's pre-med committee, a priest who was also my professor at school, my O-chem professor, and the orthopedic surgeon I shadowed.
