Zdawg122248
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Hello everyone! My MCAT retake attempt came back today and it did improve but not by much. I had a 514 average so this wasn't so far off. At this point, I am quite busy with my studies, so I won't have time to study for a third MCAT retake. I want to aim for the best school I can get into but don't know where to go from here with my mismatched MCAT and extracurriculars. I hope to find a school that has good health policy research opportunities. Any advice would be appreciated, please don't copy the information for privacy concerns. I have redacted some info to protect my privacy.
- cGPA and sGPA: 3.82 and 3.75
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts: MCAT 1: 508 (128, 125, 126, 129), MCAT 2: 510 (127, 126, 127, 130)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): Virginia
- Ethnicity and/or race: Asian
- Undergraduate institution or category: T10
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 100 hours emergency department volunteer, 200 hours step-down intermediate care volunteer, 100 hours physical therapy volunteering, and 100 hours hospice (500 hours total)
- Research experience and productivity: Neuroscience Research (1200 hours, 1 3rd-author publication), [ADVOCACY-cause] Public Health Research (500 hours, 1 poster presentation, and 1 pending first-author publication)
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 50 hours with primary care, 25 hours with PM&R, and 25 hours with neurology
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- Founded a major service organization focused on promoting access to education for [ADVOCACY-CAUSE] youth (1000 hours)
- Ran dance club for people with disabilities (200 hours)
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Youth Advisor to national health agencies, UNICEF/UNESCO, and university boards
- Public speaker about [ADVOCACY-Cause]
- Congressional Intern (health policy)
- Gap Year: Getting health-related master’s degree at Oxford
- Miscellaneous: Ran scholarship fund for high school scholarship and mentored underrepresented students in STEM
- Relevant honors or awards:
- UK Scholarship Winner (Rhodes, Marshall)
- 3X other international awards for advocacy
- Interviewed by Teen Vogue, Washington Post, and the Guardian
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- Reaches: Harvard, Hopkins, UPenn, Columbia, Duke, Stanford, UCSF, Vanderbilt, Columbia, Weill Cornell, University of Michigan, and Mt. Sinai
- Targets/Baseline: UVA, University of Pittsburgh, Case Western, University of Rochester, VCU, Virginia Tech, EVMS
