burnerburnerturner
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- GPA: cGPA 3.7, sGPA: 3.5
- MCAT: 500 (128/122/124/126) -> Retake 5/18 (Fls 503-506)
- Extenuating Circumstances: Personal circumstances regarding immigration/tensions between family (DM for more info due to privacy). I will be writing this within the primary application.
- Residency: Michigan Resident
- Ethnicity and/or race: Middle-Eastern
- Undergraduate institution or category: Michigan State University
- Clinical experience(volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Committed Full time, one-year medical assistant and arabic translator at city clinic (300 currently, ~1000 projected before matriculation/paid)
- ~250 hours home-helper/companion
- Research experience and productivity
- 500 hours clinical research -> 1 publication mid-author
- 500 hours Cardiology clinic Reseach assistant -> helped with grants and publications(? more like twitter posts lmao) like visual abstracts for lay audiences
- Shadowing: ~30 hours oncology, pediatric oncology, internal medicine
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- 150 hours as a volunteer for children's physical and recreational therapy (includes leadership position)
- 200 hours miscellanous volunteering (food banks/horse-back riding/fundraising) through a volunteer club
- 800 hours as a summer camp counselor all 4 years (includes leadership positions
- Board member of a non-profit that educates younger populations on drug usage & mental health
- Other extracurricular activities:
- Pre-med fraternity (with leadership positions )
- Founded a club based on my personal interests (ran it for 2 years)
- Relevant honors or awards: none
- All michigan schools, including MSU DO.
I really am just looking for someone to discuss my WAMC because of my MCAT. Please feel free to suggest MD/DO schools that I may have a shot at. Also, please DM if you are interested in knowing more about my extenuating circumstances or ECs (which I left generic due to privacy reasons).
TIA.