USSFSpecialist
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Demographics: 21M, URM (Latino), Military Vet, young parent, CA Resident.
MCAT: 509
cGPA: 3.80 (would be a 3.9X but I had one 3.0 quarter cus I got pulled out for most of a quarter for military drills).
Clinical-volunteer hours: 300 in an ER
Shadowing: 88 hours (across EM, rheumatology, HemOnc, IM, Family Med, Endocrinology, and NSGY).
Non-clin volunteering: 180 (50 hours food bank, 50 hours community cleanups from time in military, 40 hrs as a physical training leader for military unit, 40 hours as a social media ambassador for my community college).
Research: 630hrs, in a lab focused on neuro-effects of social stigmatization against latinos; as well as honors thesis and clinical research described below.
Leadership: Had the main “leader” position during all of military time (basic training and tech school). Also did a year as a senator in my student government before joining the military and was a member of the honor society at my school for a year.
Publication: as of right now: submitted 4th-author on a clinical paper in the journal of clinical oncology about finding a new possibly associated protein with a certain pathology.
Other ECs: Earned a grant to attend the social affective neuroscience conference. Got “hand-selected” for a UCLA SOM-partnered program to present clinical studies to faculty. Shadowed UCLA SOM faculty in a similarly competitive program.
Other considerations: took MCAT without almost all the pre-reqs, also had like a month and a half to study since we were buying a home at the time and I was separating from the military. Had a kid at 17 and grew up mostly in a single parent low-income home. Lastly, it feels like almost every semester for the first 3 years of undergrad had a unique story (ex: had to take final exams a month early to ship out for basic training, using up all my vacation days so that I can attend lectures for a semester, commuting 2 hours each way to school so that my daughter can live near family, not going to lecture for a whole semester due to military drills, etc)
MCAT: 509
cGPA: 3.80 (would be a 3.9X but I had one 3.0 quarter cus I got pulled out for most of a quarter for military drills).
Clinical-volunteer hours: 300 in an ER
Shadowing: 88 hours (across EM, rheumatology, HemOnc, IM, Family Med, Endocrinology, and NSGY).
Non-clin volunteering: 180 (50 hours food bank, 50 hours community cleanups from time in military, 40 hrs as a physical training leader for military unit, 40 hours as a social media ambassador for my community college).
Research: 630hrs, in a lab focused on neuro-effects of social stigmatization against latinos; as well as honors thesis and clinical research described below.
Leadership: Had the main “leader” position during all of military time (basic training and tech school). Also did a year as a senator in my student government before joining the military and was a member of the honor society at my school for a year.
Publication: as of right now: submitted 4th-author on a clinical paper in the journal of clinical oncology about finding a new possibly associated protein with a certain pathology.
Other ECs: Earned a grant to attend the social affective neuroscience conference. Got “hand-selected” for a UCLA SOM-partnered program to present clinical studies to faculty. Shadowed UCLA SOM faculty in a similarly competitive program.
Other considerations: took MCAT without almost all the pre-reqs, also had like a month and a half to study since we were buying a home at the time and I was separating from the military. Had a kid at 17 and grew up mostly in a single parent low-income home. Lastly, it feels like almost every semester for the first 3 years of undergrad had a unique story (ex: had to take final exams a month early to ship out for basic training, using up all my vacation days so that I can attend lectures for a semester, commuting 2 hours each way to school so that my daughter can live near family, not going to lecture for a whole semester due to military drills, etc)
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