SakiS
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Greetings SDN , I'm having a little imposter syndrome and getting nervous that my app is weak on the EC side of things as I don’t have genuine patient responsibility experience like MA or EMT, more so volunteering. I'm taking 2 gap years to finish my MPH right out of undergrad because I'm interested in merging public health and medicine (My personal statement is focusing on that journey with experiences), so we apply for the 2025 cycle to join 2026. I just need help in how I fit with these schools when I apply in a few months (and if there’s anything I can do from now till application time.). Thanks!!! Let me know what else I can elucidate
1. MCAT Score (9/13 2024):
Undergraduate (2024) (Anticipating 2 Letters from PI/Professor, and Sci Professor Here):
Graduate (2024-2026) (Anticipating letter from MD PI here)
Volunteering: Winship Cancer Institute (6 months current, 3 months anticipated) - Serving meals, assisting patients, providing companionship (Estimated 120 hours)
Volunteering: American Cancer Society Hope Lodge (3 months current, indefinite length) - Helping rural cancer patients with their chores, comforting them during their treatment, set up a public health program here to ensure the safety of the patients in the lodge (Estimated 51 hours).
Volunteering: Coffee with Veterans (2 months current, indefinite length) - Distributing coffee and speaking with veterans about their concerns at the VA Hospital. Providing social support, and directing them to necessary outside resources in case of food insecurity, housing, etc.
Shadowing: Geriatric and primary care clinic (3 months in 2022) - 100 hours
6. Non Clinical Volunteering and Community Service:
Volunteering: Online Science tutoring for underprivileged students (2 hours/week for a few months, ongoing) - Estimated 56 hours
Volunteering as a distributor and organizer for meals directly with homeless population in Tokyo (4 months in 2023) - 100 hours
7. Leadership Roles:
Teaching assistant in a laboratory class: Helped students with lab techniques for a semester
Research mentor: Provided guidance to other researchers in my Undergraduate Lab (Unestimated Hours, but likely over 100)
8. Awards, Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, Dean's List, Won a Global Health Case Competition as part of a team as Co-Captain.
Skills and Hobbies: Languages: Japanese (conversational), Telugu (native)
Mechanical skills: Enjoys working on and fixing cars * Athletics: Intramural baseball * AHA BLS Certification * Programming: SAS, R * Salesforce
SCHOOL LIST (California Resident becoming Georgia Resident by living in Georgia for the past year)
1. MCAT Score (9/13 2024):
- 519 (129/127/132/131)
Undergraduate (2024) (Anticipating 2 Letters from PI/Professor, and Sci Professor Here):
- Institution: University of Massachusetts - Amherst
- Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- cGPA: 3.82/4.0 scale (After factoring in Abroad GPA from Temple Japan, Before Abroad is 3.88)
- sGPA: 3.87/4.0 scale
Graduate (2024-2026) (Anticipating letter from MD PI here)
- Institution: Emory University
- Program: MPH in Epidemiology
- GPA: 4.0
- MPH Certificate: Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
- MPH Applied Experience: [Update when available]
- Duration: 2 years 10 months
- Lab: Biochemistry Lab
- Topic: Proteomics CAMKII
- Role: Undergraduate Researcher, progressed to mentoring lab members and leading team meetings
- Non-first author publication
- Poster presentation
- Written thesis
- Estimated Hours: 1530-2040 hours
- Current Status: Ongoing (6 months in, 12 months anticipated)
- Lab: Clinical focused research with a medical doctor
- Funding: HERCULES Exposome grant, NIH Grant
- Topic: Persistent Organic Pollutants and Heavy Metals: Alterations in the Gut Metagenome and Links with Insulin Resistance and Body Composition Following Bariatric Surgery
- Role: Graduate Researcher
- Responsibilities: Independent data analysis, mentored learning, writer
- First-author publication on gut microbiome diversity following bariatric surgery
- Obesity Poster Conference Presentation
- MPH thesis on metabolomics
- MPH presentation on metabolomics
- Time Commitment: 12-20 hours/week
- Estimated Hours: 384-720 hours
Volunteering: Winship Cancer Institute (6 months current, 3 months anticipated) - Serving meals, assisting patients, providing companionship (Estimated 120 hours)
Volunteering: American Cancer Society Hope Lodge (3 months current, indefinite length) - Helping rural cancer patients with their chores, comforting them during their treatment, set up a public health program here to ensure the safety of the patients in the lodge (Estimated 51 hours).
Volunteering: Coffee with Veterans (2 months current, indefinite length) - Distributing coffee and speaking with veterans about their concerns at the VA Hospital. Providing social support, and directing them to necessary outside resources in case of food insecurity, housing, etc.
Shadowing: Geriatric and primary care clinic (3 months in 2022) - 100 hours
6. Non Clinical Volunteering and Community Service:
Volunteering: Online Science tutoring for underprivileged students (2 hours/week for a few months, ongoing) - Estimated 56 hours
Volunteering as a distributor and organizer for meals directly with homeless population in Tokyo (4 months in 2023) - 100 hours
7. Leadership Roles:
Teaching assistant in a laboratory class: Helped students with lab techniques for a semester
Research mentor: Provided guidance to other researchers in my Undergraduate Lab (Unestimated Hours, but likely over 100)
8. Awards, Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, Dean's List, Won a Global Health Case Competition as part of a team as Co-Captain.
Skills and Hobbies: Languages: Japanese (conversational), Telugu (native)
Mechanical skills: Enjoys working on and fixing cars * Athletics: Intramural baseball * AHA BLS Certification * Programming: SAS, R * Salesforce
SCHOOL LIST (California Resident becoming Georgia Resident by living in Georgia for the past year)
| UCSF |
| STANFORD |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY |
| USF Health College of Medicine |
| DARTMOUTH |
| UMICH |
| BROWN |
| EMORY |
| STONY BROOK |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI |
| USC KECK |
| TUFTS |
| UC IRVINE |
| HOFSTRA |
| WAKE FOREST |
| RUTGERS |
| NEW YORK MC |
| OHIO STATE |
| CREIGHTON |
| VCU |
| VIRGINIA TECH |
| UG AUGUSTA |
| UVM |
| Drexel |
| Quinnipiac |
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