1. cGPA: 3.0
2. sGPA: 4.0
3. MCAT: 524
4. Ethnicity: Puerto Rican Male
5. State: NY
6. School category: CUNY
7. Clinical: 1200 hours as a scribe in multiple specialties (paid)
8. Shadowing: 150 hours: family medicine, trauma, derm, OBGYN
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 100 hours at a senior center
10. Clinical volunteering: 120 hours at a nursing home
11. Research: 9-week summer program, genomics, Broad Institute
12. Non-profit: The Fresh Air Fund: a nonprofit that provides sleep-away summer camp activities for low-income NYC children: I was a paid “assistant leader,” basically a helper to the camp counselors, 1500 hours (first job)
Other:
1. Church: about 100 hours (never counted but we did this frequently) of evangelism
2. Jobs: Retail and fast food: about 10k hours (I’ve been working since I was 16)
My cGPA is due to multiple Fs I received when I started out in CC, wasn’t sure what I wanted to do and I had to work. I have multiple withdrawals. Retook all of the F courses and got As in them. Transferred to a 4-year and reinvented myself with straight As. Both my CC and 4-year are CUNYs. Took all science courses at the 4-year.
My Spanish is conversational, currently trying to improve it. I took two Mandarin courses, improving that as well but not conversational yet.
Please let me know if I should improve/do something more to increase my chances. I am currently looking at SMPs.
Feel free to ask questions
2. sGPA: 4.0
3. MCAT: 524
4. Ethnicity: Puerto Rican Male
5. State: NY
6. School category: CUNY
7. Clinical: 1200 hours as a scribe in multiple specialties (paid)
8. Shadowing: 150 hours: family medicine, trauma, derm, OBGYN
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 100 hours at a senior center
10. Clinical volunteering: 120 hours at a nursing home
11. Research: 9-week summer program, genomics, Broad Institute
12. Non-profit: The Fresh Air Fund: a nonprofit that provides sleep-away summer camp activities for low-income NYC children: I was a paid “assistant leader,” basically a helper to the camp counselors, 1500 hours (first job)
Other:
1. Church: about 100 hours (never counted but we did this frequently) of evangelism
2. Jobs: Retail and fast food: about 10k hours (I’ve been working since I was 16)
My cGPA is due to multiple Fs I received when I started out in CC, wasn’t sure what I wanted to do and I had to work. I have multiple withdrawals. Retook all of the F courses and got As in them. Transferred to a 4-year and reinvented myself with straight As. Both my CC and 4-year are CUNYs. Took all science courses at the 4-year.
My Spanish is conversational, currently trying to improve it. I took two Mandarin courses, improving that as well but not conversational yet.
Please let me know if I should improve/do something more to increase my chances. I am currently looking at SMPs.
Feel free to ask questions
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