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- Apr 30, 2018
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- 3.71 cGPA and 3.67 sGPA with 4.0’s last two years of undergrad. Pending calculations by AMCAS
- 513 MCAT score (130/126/129/128)
- State of residence: California
- Ethnicity and/or race: White/25% Venezuelan; grew up in medically underserved and rural area.
- Undergraduate institution: Top 50; degree in biochemistry
- Clinical experience: 2700 hours of clinical research with presentation at convention center and award for best scientific presentation; medical volunteer for legally blind — 100 hours.
- Research experience: 3000+ hours of research on medical artificial intelligence with international fellowship. Diagnosed over 75K retinal scans/images and helped run machine learning models. I was a key player on the “leaders team” and acted as a liaison between physicians and programmers.
- 7 publications: 1 in Cell, 1 in Nature, the rest are 1st-3rd author in low-tier journals.
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 280 hours including plastic reconstructive surgery and neurosurgery
- Non-clinical volunteering: 1500 hours as unofficial guardian for international high school student; 200 hours as a mentor for foster youth mentor program; 400 hours as a mentor and caretaker for special needs man.
- Other extracurricular activities: Cofounder and CEO of nonprofit that raised over 50k for cancer research.
- Relevant honors or awards: Tiffany Award for best scientific presentation.
- Hobbies: 8 years of motorcycle riding, 11 years of theater, interests in Japanese and machine learning.
Schools:
Please correct me if my ranking is wrong. I have interests in Chicago, Florida, Boston, and Colorado (since I have family members here)
* **In state:** Stanford, UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, UCD, UCI, UCR, Kaiser, Keck
* **Top:**
* Harvard (10% percentile in only MCAT) (unlikely)
* Yale (10% percentile only GPA) (unlikely)
* Michigan, Duke, Mayo, Pitt, Cornell, UChicago (at least 10% in both MCAT and GPA)
* **Mid-Top:** Emory, Brown, Sinai, Case Western, BU
* **Mid:** U Massachusetts, Vermont, Tufts, Rochester, U Wisconsin, U Maryland, U Colorado, Dartmouth, Stony Brook, Miami, Loyola, Rosalind Franklin, Jefferson, Georgetown, George Wash, Albany, Einstein, Tulane, Oregan Health and Sciences, Nova, U Minnesota, Virginia Tech