soldier boy
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- Joined
- Jun 29, 2024
- Messages
- 179
- Reaction score
- 124
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS : sGPA: 3.49, cGPA: 3.64 (everything upward trend)
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown. 2022 scores: 1st attempt: 495 =122/124/124/125, 2nd attempt: 500 = 124/124/127/125. 2023 scores: 3rd attempt: 509 =126/127/128/128 (overall 14 point increase across 3 attempts)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): FL
- Ethnicity and/or race: Asian
- Undergraduate institution or category: Public school (finished my bachelor degree in 3 years but took a gap year before applying this cycle)
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 1000 hours scribing paid employment (lots of projected), 1800 hours clinical volunteering at non profit clinic. (a little more projected), 1 conference attended
- Research experience and productivity: 1000 hours research, first author pub, and 1 poster presentation.
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 1800 hours clinical volunteering at non profit clinic (I was able to shadow doctors of different specialties in this clinic as well as volunteer)
- Non-clinical volunteering: 1000 hours food bank volunteering with leadership(little more projected), 300 hours international social justice advocacy
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): archery (participated in national competitions) and cricket.
- Relevant honors or awards: Dean's List in my junior and senior year where i took advanced science courses?
- Anything else not listed you think might be important: Lived in medically underserved area, part of immigrant family, took a gap year before applying this cycle
- School List: Everywhere Florida and states I have ties. Also applying broadly across the country to schools that I am in 25th percentile MCAT and GPA in (about 50 schools). Applying DO as well.
- Thoughts and concerns: I am a little scared that although I am trending upward on my MCAT, it won't be enough for admission into MD. 3 attempts is a lot and I am just having a lot of anxiety that my first 2 scores are going to hurt me a lot. I am also worried that taking 2 gap years will also hurt me but I have been doing a lot in terms of extracurriculars to compensate for it. I am also applying to a couple of DO schools this cycle. For my science GPA, I dropped the ball in my freshman year, but that was in 2020 peak of COVID and I had some deaths in my family that required me to travel out of town for caregiving and I talk about it in secondaries. Since then, everything is upward trend in my GPA. I am a reapplicant in 2024 though I did not apply to a lot of schools in my previous cycle only about 15 schools. I worked a lot in my gap year on prewriting secondaries and having peer review on my primary so I believe my writing is strong.
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