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My biggest concern is not having a legal state of residence. I lived in a midwestern state for elementary and middle school, but my family moved back to our home country for high school. For college, I went to UCSD because my cousins lived in SD. I have all my legal documents (car registration, DL, bank) linked to my cousin's home in Cali. I don't think I am considered an international applicant since I have had a green card since elementary school (never bothered to apply for citizenship since I lived abroad after obtaining it). Feel free to correct me if I am wrong tho!
Have no regional preferences & applying primarily for MDs (do I need to include DOs also?)
State of residence: None (strong ties to CA & MN)
Ethnicity: East Asian
Undergraduate: UCSD
Undergraduate major: Biochem
Cumulative GPA: 3.85
Science GPA: 3.85
MCAT Score(s) (in order of attempts): 518 (130/126/130/132)
Institutional actions?: N/A
First application cycle? (If no, explain): Y
Research experience:
780 hours at undergrad bio lab
225 hours of cancer research
Publications?:
1 presentation at an undergrad symposium
1 publication (but for undergrad journal - idk if that means anything)
1 pending publication & presentation for cancer research
Clinical experience:
1250 hours as an ophthalmic tech
420 hours as MA
Physician shadowing:
Internal med, sports med, urology, opthalmology (~100 hrs)
- Urology shadowing done overseas & everything else was done as part of my training for MA/tech (idk if I can count these as shadowing tho)
Non-clinical volunteering:
340 hours of hospice assistant cook
110 hours of volunteer English tutor for a refugee
Other activities:
60 hours of Psych tutor (paid)
288 hours of cashier job (paid)
Have no regional preferences & applying primarily for MDs (do I need to include DOs also?)
State of residence: None (strong ties to CA & MN)
Ethnicity: East Asian
Undergraduate: UCSD
Undergraduate major: Biochem
Cumulative GPA: 3.85
Science GPA: 3.85
MCAT Score(s) (in order of attempts): 518 (130/126/130/132)
Institutional actions?: N/A
First application cycle? (If no, explain): Y
Research experience:
780 hours at undergrad bio lab
225 hours of cancer research
Publications?:
1 presentation at an undergrad symposium
1 publication (but for undergrad journal - idk if that means anything)
1 pending publication & presentation for cancer research
Clinical experience:
1250 hours as an ophthalmic tech
420 hours as MA
Physician shadowing:
Internal med, sports med, urology, opthalmology (~100 hrs)
- Urology shadowing done overseas & everything else was done as part of my training for MA/tech (idk if I can count these as shadowing tho)
Non-clinical volunteering:
340 hours of hospice assistant cook
110 hours of volunteer English tutor for a refugee
Other activities:
60 hours of Psych tutor (paid)
288 hours of cashier job (paid)
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