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Hello! I have been a long-time lurker on this forum, but since I am planning to apply to medical school in the 2022-2023 cycle, I wanted to make my own post and hopefully get some advice about my situation + school list. I know my stats are good, but a lot of my high school classes were dual/concurrent enrollment so I would have some community college grades on my AMCAS report. In my sophomore year of high school, I was facing some very extenuating and sudden circumstances (being victim of gang violence, facing houselessness, etc.) that forced me to withdraw from high school temporarily. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to withdraw from my community college class and ended with an F in the class. I did retake the class senior year of high school when I was in a better mental and physical state, but I do understand that adcoms are not going to look favorably upon that F. I worked very hard in undergrad and got a 4.0 GPA in a double major + I got an A in the rest of the community college classes I took in college, so my cGPA was able to recover.
Hello! I have been a long-time lurker on this forum, but since I am planning to apply to medical school in the 2022-2023 cycle, I wanted to make my own post and hopefully get some advice about my situation + school list. I know my stats are good, but a lot of my high school classes were dual/concurrent enrollment so I would have some community college grades on my AMCAS report. In my sophomore year of high school, I was facing some very extenuating and sudden circumstances (being victim of gang violence, facing houselessness, etc.) that forced me to withdraw from high school temporarily. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to withdraw from my community college class and ended with an F in the class. I did retake the class senior year of high school when I was in a better mental and physical state, but I do understand that adcoms are not going to look favorably upon that F. I worked very hard in undergrad and got a 4.0 GPA in a double major + I got an A in the rest of the community college classes I took in college, so my cGPA was able to recover.
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.95 cGPA (with the F included), 4.0 sGPA
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 527
- Ethnicity and/or race: Asian
- Undergraduate institution or category: T20
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 1000+ hours; worked in free clinics and streetside clinics; was a caseworker in a hospital that connected low income patients with continuity of care resources
- Research experience and productivity: ~1000 hours in one lab, many posters, some conference awards, 1 mid-author pub; also have one first author pub from independent research project, ~200 hours clinical research with one poster
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: I didn't shadow during undergrad but I did scribe at the clinics I volunteered at and worked closely with doctors for my projects. Will definitely try to get some formalized shadowing hours this year
- Non-clinical volunteering: 2000+ hours volunteered in homeless shelters, taught and developed public health curriculum for at-risk students, co-started clinic for low-income mothers and volunteered there, some food serving stuff, organized donation drives for unhoused youth and hosted career workshops for them
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): couple of public health internships, co-started undergrad org that gave students opportunities to work with doctors and asylum seekers at the border, gen chem undergrad TA for like a year, designed and taught my own classes for undergrad (one is medical terms in another language, one is about youth homelessness), first gap year on a fellowship abroad, and my second gap year (this year) doing some research and being a part-time resident counselor at a youth shelter
- Relevant honors or awards: nothing special just a couple of school-based awards and a couple of regional awards for civic engagement
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