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Hi everyone, thanks in advance for your help! I am applying this upcoming cycle and would like to establish what my odds are:
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.86/3.93
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 522 (130/131/130/131)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): California
- Ethnicity and/or race: Hispanic
- Undergraduate institution or category: UC San Diego, double majored in Neurobiology and Linguistics
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
1 year (~1500 hours) working as a TMS Technician at an excellent neurology clinic that uses the newest TMS protocols;
4-5 months (~600 hours) working as a Clinical Coordinator for a neurosurgery practice (ultimately a toxic work environment but I learned a LOT about running a practice since I was managing auth/billing as well)
~150 hours as a Medical Spanish interpreter at both a local hospital and at a local free clinic - Research experience and productivity: 150 hours for a summer research poster focusing on mindfulness techniques for visitors at Tijuana's Free Clinic;
200 hours (and a white paper with pending publication) on a Medical Spanish project investigating MS's curricular development at California's four Hispanic Center of Excellence campuses (UCSF, Cal, Stanford, UCSD);
150 hours at a psychedelics/mindfulness-focused local research lab - Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 10 hours with a primary care MD at a SD homeless shelter; 10 hours with a psychiatrist at the Free Clinic; currently working on virtual shadowing
- Non-clinical volunteering:
1.5 years (~500-600 hours) as co-chair of HOPE, a committee within HMP3 (pre-health organization), an undergraduate organization designated to help under-represented students (ethnically and/or socioeconomically) find opportunities in medicine. Designed and ran UC San Diego's inaugural URiM Conference for this purpose. - Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc):
~2000 hours (over the last 5 years) as both a paid and nonpaid tutor, the former as second-in-command at a virtual tutoring company my friend and I worked to create
3 years as Tech Editor/Features Editor/Research Core Staff Editor at my college's biology undergraduate journal (Saltman Quarterly)
3 years as a Teaching Assistant for UCSD SOM's Medical Spanish course; currently working to write a new manual/textbook focusing on dynamic patient-provider interactions and catered to UCSD's program (does this count as a pub if I get the book published?) - Relevant honors or awards:
UCSD Town and Gown Scholarship, Hans & Ursula Moede Scholar (awarded to UCSD scholars with a high GPA, volunteer community involvement, and career goal in service to others)
Muir Caledonian Society, Inductee (academic award at UCSD)
Saltman Quarterly, SQ Online; Gold Crown recipient as one of the top 6 hybrid collegiate publications in the US - Anything else not listed you think might be important:
Hobbies: foreign language learning (conversational in French and Italian, currently learning Russian); naturalism/wildlife photography (~5 years, or 1000+ entries, in my naturalism portfolio); currently working on a yoga teaching license
Student member of the National Association for Medical Spanish (invite-only)
Letters of Rec: 2 Science LORs (1 mid, 1 potentially better since I took two courses and TAed for a third), 1 non-science (Linguistics) LOR (strong), 1 from Med Spanish teacher (strong), 1 from TMS Clinic's Medical Director (strong)
Here's my working school list - I'm still researching which programs would be a good mission fit, and I would appreciate any advice in tweaking the list:
UCSD
UCI
UC Davis
UCLA
Charles Drew
UCSF
UNC
Duke
Boston University
UPitt
Cornell
Miami
Vanderbilt
Tufts
Brown
Mount Sinai
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