crustywonton
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Planning on applying to MD/PhD programs this coming cycle and I'm in a bit of a pickle as to narrowing down the school list. Just for context here's a bit about my stats/where I'm at:
Current junior at T20, ORM
sGPA 3.93, cGPA 3.95 (not counting this semester), MCAT 523 (130/130/131/132)
3 years of bench research, split 1 year in 1 lab and the last 2 in my current lab (3000 hours total). No pubs, and intended to present at an ug research symposium until covid. Will have my name on an abstract, but it'll be published in a school compilation. Will be doing computational work this summer as part of my independent project.
Clinical is kind of a weak point- I have about 100 hours of volunteering (about half in a hospital and half in hospice) but only 50-60 of shadowing.
Other activities - resident advisor, healthcare interest fraternity, Tau Beta Pi (the engineering honor society), tutoring. I love running and have done two halfs and am training for a full marathon 🙂
I want to pursue the PhD in cell biology or immunology and my LORs reflect that.
My school list is currently:
Northeast: Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, NYU, Columbia, Yale, UPenn, Mount Sinai, Pittsburgh
Midwest: Michigan, Northwestern, UChicago, Mayo, WashU
South: Vandy, Duke, UNC, Emory
West Coast: Stanford, UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, UW
It's ambitious imo, and I'm trying to decide whether I should try for lower-ranked schools or take the gap year in the event that I don't get in this cycle. Any thoughts are appreciated!
Current junior at T20, ORM
sGPA 3.93, cGPA 3.95 (not counting this semester), MCAT 523 (130/130/131/132)
3 years of bench research, split 1 year in 1 lab and the last 2 in my current lab (3000 hours total). No pubs, and intended to present at an ug research symposium until covid. Will have my name on an abstract, but it'll be published in a school compilation. Will be doing computational work this summer as part of my independent project.
Clinical is kind of a weak point- I have about 100 hours of volunteering (about half in a hospital and half in hospice) but only 50-60 of shadowing.
Other activities - resident advisor, healthcare interest fraternity, Tau Beta Pi (the engineering honor society), tutoring. I love running and have done two halfs and am training for a full marathon 🙂
I want to pursue the PhD in cell biology or immunology and my LORs reflect that.
My school list is currently:
Northeast: Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, NYU, Columbia, Yale, UPenn, Mount Sinai, Pittsburgh
Midwest: Michigan, Northwestern, UChicago, Mayo, WashU
South: Vandy, Duke, UNC, Emory
West Coast: Stanford, UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, UW
It's ambitious imo, and I'm trying to decide whether I should try for lower-ranked schools or take the gap year in the event that I don't get in this cycle. Any thoughts are appreciated!