Hi! I am a 1st gen, URM, trad applicant. My GPAs are pretty low, but my app is very focused and I had to work 3 jobs while in undergrad to stay in school.
- cGPA: 3.32, sGPA: 3.17
- MCAT: 513 (127, 130, 126, 130)
- State of residence: Tennessee, born and lived in NJ for a very brief amount of time
- Ethnicity: Ghanaian-American, URM, 20F
- Undergraduate: state public school
- Clinical experience: 300 hours RBT, 1100 ED scribe, 50 hours Hospital volunteer in Ghana
- Research experience: 63 hours (1 lab, no pubs, 1(ish) presentations), nothing too crazy, more data collection/computer work
- Shadowing experience: 118 hours ED, 20 hours Clinical Embryologist in Ghana, and 50 hours Neurology.
- Non-clinical volunteering: 3800 hours Church Youth Leader (since I was 14), 32 hours school Black Issues Conference
- Other extracurricular: Founded National Society of Black Women in Medicine Chapter as VP, African Student Association (from member to Social Media to Comm Serve Chair to now President), Resident Assistant (3 years), College Ambassador
- Hobbies: Hair Styling (since I was 12)
- LORs: 2 Science Faculties (big jump in class grade-wise), Calculus 2 prof (D first attempt, A with this professor), Honors Communications prof, MD in Ghana, RA supervisor
- Other: My mom went back to nursing school after my first semester, and I had to start working to pay tuition and help with household bills.
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