- Joined
- Feb 3, 2022
- Messages
- 48
- Reaction score
- 88
- cGPA and sGPA: 3.97/3.98
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 513 (128/129/128/128) in 2021 and 523 (131/130/131/131) in 2022
- State of residence: Texas Permenant Resident
- Ethnicity and/or race: White
- Undergraduate institution or category: Nonfamous school in TX
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Emergency Room Scribe: 2000 hours (I also assist with procedures, but I’m not formally an MA)
- Outpatient Clinic Volunteer (Nursing Assistant): 200 hours
- Homeless Medical Clinic Volunteer: 30 hours
- Will be working at a psych hospital during my gap year, doing research and patient interaction (about 2000 hours)
- Research experience and productivity
- Neuroscience Lab: 1200 hours
- 2 poster presentations, 1 at university, 1 national
- I am writing my manuscript right now to hopefully be submitted in January
- Psychiatric Research: 200 hours
- Assisting with research project on biotechnology and suicidality
- National poster presentation in 2023
- Writing a peer-reviewed commentary for submission hopefully in December
- PI for study at my university looking at disparities between pre-medical students in terms of accessibility to resources
- National & university poster presentation in 2023
- Wrote the IRB proposal myself
- Maybe an abstract depending on how many participants we get
- Neuroscience Lab: 1200 hours
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- Internal Medicine: 20 hours
- Pediatrics: 50 hours
- Family Medicine: 10 hours
- ER: 10 hours
- Dermatology: 10 hours
- Psychiatry: 20 hours
- Virtual Shadowing: 100 hours
- Non-clinical volunteering
- Crisis Text Line: 600 hour
- Therapeutic Riding Center: 200 hours
- Local Food Bank: 50 hours
- Initiated and led a volunteer project that helped a homeless medical clinic set up their new family center
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- President of local AMSA chapter (700 hours)
- Head of student welfare at a freshman dormitory (700 hours)
- Created and initiated the training program where I scribe for new ER scribes
- Relevant honors or awards
- Full Ride Scholarship to undergraduate university (100% merit based, about $70k)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($4000)
- Dean’s List all semesters
- Marketing Chair of the Year (lol)
I’m definitely planning on applying to all the Texas schools but I don’t really know how to build a school list for out of state. Dream school would be Stanford but I don’t know if I have enough research productivity/X-factor. Also I don't know if I should base my list around an average MCAT of 518 or my highest/latest score of 523. Thank you!
@Faha @Goro
