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c/sGPA: 3.96/3.97
MCAT: 518 (129-127-130-132)
Disadvantaged? Y (ongoing financial hardships, qualify for FAP)
Race: Asian (Filipino), White
Home: Hawaii
Undergrad: Ivy League*
Publications: 1 (third-author)
Presentations: 7 (5 first author, 1 second, 1 fourth)
Awards: ~$15K (grants + fellowships)
Research hrs: >4000 (2 Ivy REUs, same university) + (3 research assistant positions (RAPs) at 3 universities) + (1 summer RAP, local med school)
Shadowing hrs: 60 (3 Internists + ER docs)
Clinical volunteering: 130 (ER volunteer / volunteer trainer)
Tutoring: 580 (calculus, biochemistry)
EC: 180 (160 as founder/president of research club, 20 as cultural club treasurer)
Interests: Precision Oncology (specifically prostate cancer), Genomic Medicine
Please let me know if there's any additional info I can give to inform your review!
Questions:
1) Although I have stayed with the same lab for the last two years (~ 1600 hrs, microfluidics lab, did honors thesis / publishing here), my remaining research hours are spread across 5 other projects in different fields (microfluidics, public health, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, materials science). How might this affect my application / how can I use these to explain my research interests?**
2) Should I add any schools to my list (pasted below)?
3) I am currently applying during a (second) gap year. What should I focus on improving during this time?
*transferred here as a Junior. Before, I did my freshman year at my home state university, sophomore year at public university in California as an exchange student, then took a gap year.
**My research focus has largely been microfluidic device development for sepsis management, which is different than the interest I listed. The interests listed above grew over this past year mainly because of courses I took.
Mahalo for reading!
School list (27 schools. By USNEWS: 12 T20, 13 < T20. T20s in bold)
MCAT: 518 (129-127-130-132)
Disadvantaged? Y (ongoing financial hardships, qualify for FAP)
Race: Asian (Filipino), White
Home: Hawaii
Undergrad: Ivy League*
Publications: 1 (third-author)
Presentations: 7 (5 first author, 1 second, 1 fourth)
Awards: ~$15K (grants + fellowships)
Research hrs: >4000 (2 Ivy REUs, same university) + (3 research assistant positions (RAPs) at 3 universities) + (1 summer RAP, local med school)
Shadowing hrs: 60 (3 Internists + ER docs)
Clinical volunteering: 130 (ER volunteer / volunteer trainer)
Tutoring: 580 (calculus, biochemistry)
EC: 180 (160 as founder/president of research club, 20 as cultural club treasurer)
Interests: Precision Oncology (specifically prostate cancer), Genomic Medicine
Please let me know if there's any additional info I can give to inform your review!
Questions:
1) Although I have stayed with the same lab for the last two years (~ 1600 hrs, microfluidics lab, did honors thesis / publishing here), my remaining research hours are spread across 5 other projects in different fields (microfluidics, public health, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, materials science). How might this affect my application / how can I use these to explain my research interests?**
2) Should I add any schools to my list (pasted below)?
3) I am currently applying during a (second) gap year. What should I focus on improving during this time?
*transferred here as a Junior. Before, I did my freshman year at my home state university, sophomore year at public university in California as an exchange student, then took a gap year.
**My research focus has largely been microfluidic device development for sepsis management, which is different than the interest I listed. The interests listed above grew over this past year mainly because of courses I took.
Mahalo for reading!
School list (27 schools. By USNEWS: 12 T20, 13 < T20. T20s in bold)
| University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine |
| University of California, San Diego School of Medicine |
| University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine |
| University of California, Riverside School of Medicine |
| University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine |
| Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California |
| Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine (ranking TBD) |
| Stanford University School of Medicine |
| Yale School of Medicine |
| Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Harvard Medical School |
| Boston University School of Medicine |
| Tufts University School of Medicine |
| Weill Cornell Medicine |
| Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Duke University School of Medicine |
| Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
| Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Drexel University College of Medicine |
| Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University |
| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University |
| Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine |
| The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University |
| University of Washington School of Medicine |
