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Hi all! First-time nontrad applicant looking for some advice on how to get through this process and get moving towards a dream of mine. Thanks in advance for looking this over!
Hi all! First-time nontrad applicant looking for some advice on how to get through this process and get moving towards a dream of mine. Thanks in advance for looking this over!
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by an AMCAS spreadsheet calculator
- 3.42 cGPA (3.09/3.69/3.74/3.25), 3.43 sGPA
- Upward trend except for one bad quarter senior year due a clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety attack from a personal situation. I was prescribed medication and rebounded the next quarter to get on the Dean's List.
- Enrolled in an MBA in Healthcare Administration program for upcoming year
- 3.42 cGPA (3.09/3.69/3.74/3.25), 3.43 sGPA
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown
- 513 (127/130/128/128). Currently planning a retake on June 24, studying full-time and aiming high to compensate for my lower GPA as I wasn't able to study very effectively and for very long the last time around. Please let me know if this is a bad idea!
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
- Currently living in OH after completion of gap year Clinical Research Coordinator job at CCF. For upcoming year I will be financially dependent on parents who are established in WA, and I do have strong ties to the region: graduated HS and university there and lived there for 8 years. As a financial dependent who has strong ties to the region, am I able to use WA? If I'm able to choose between the two (gray area), would it be better for my app to choose one state over the other?
- Ethnicity and/or race
- ORM (Southeast Asian)
- Undergraduate institution or category
- University of Washington, BS Chemical Engineering with focus on Bio and Biomedical Materials, Interfaces, and Systems
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- 60 hours at a clinic providing free medical/dental services to uninsured patients, many of whom lacked citizenship
- 2100 paid hours working as a CRC at Cleveland Clinic (Am I able to split these hours between research and clinical? Should I?)
- Research experience and productivity
- ~130 hours at an undergraduate surgical research lab, no pubs
- Middle author on abstract submitted to upcoming ASA conference, middle author on a study submitted to a university hospital's IRB (From CRC position)
- Two poster presentations at undergraduate symposiums for medical device design as part of my capstone engineering project, worked alongside UW physician
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- ~170 hours of in-person shadowing Anesthesiology, Neurosurgery, OB/GYN.
- ~16 hours of virtual shadowing in PA Family Med/Critical Care, Orthopedic surgery, Family Med, Emergency Med, and Maternal Fetal Medicine
- Non-clinical volunteering
- Volunteer work at Red Cross in foreign countries (50+ hours)
- Efforts to teach about health equity and raise funds through various activities for a maternal and fetal health center in a third-world country (~150 hours)
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Junior Officer and Officer for ChemE leadership organization for 2 years, helped with organization and hosting of regional conference (250 hours)
- Founded and chaired a branch of an organization for health equity and right to health in Greater Seattle, grew to include another chapter due to success
- Relevant honors or awards
- Won a departmental scholarship for most improved GPA at the end of my Junior Year
- Dean's List several times throughout college
- Letters of Rec vary in strength
- Hobbies:
- Traveling
- 11 years of piano, self-taught guitar
- learning languages (currently conversationally fluent in 3, learned some basic Italian while abroad and continuing to learn others)
- rock climbing
- Other Employment: ~500 hours as a sales associate at Williams-Sonoma during sophomore year
- Have immediate family in medicine
- Interested in both Primary Care and Rural Health
- Current Medical School List (not attached to any of these options and would like advice!)
- University of Washington
- WSU Elson-Floyd
- Carle
- Case Western
- Cincinnati
- NEOMED
- Wright State
- Ohio State
- Toledo
- Open to DO as well, but would like MD if at all possible.
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