- Joined
- Feb 28, 2023
- Messages
- 12
- Reaction score
- 4
1. GPA
- cGPA: 3.97
- sGPA: 3.96
- MCAT (need to take this on 6/3; still have 38 days to prep full-time)
- Most recent AAMC FLs (1 and 2): 521 (131/129/131/130) and 523 (132/129/131/131)
- State of residence
- Michigan
- Demographic
- Chinese, female, permanent resident
- Undergraduate
- Oberlin college, then graduated in UMich
- Clinical experience
- 400 hrs Crisis Text Line (volunteer); will continue
- 1300 hrs underserved geriatric medicine scribe (paid)
- Will start a part-time scribe job in EM
- Research experience and productivity
- 435 hrs organic/drug synthesis (1 presentation)
- 980 hrs and 2400 hrs projected organic synthesis/myelofibrosis drug development (hopefully got stuff published when I go back in a month); will continue
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- 40 hrs in Hepatology, GYN surgery, dermatology surgery
- Non-clinical volunteering
- 100 hrs Food pantry; will continue
- 450 hrs English tutor group founder and tutor; will continue
- 60 hrs autoimmune disease education website creator; will continue
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- 100 hrs AMSA club member
- 220 hrs Chinese students association event planning leader
- 90 hrs chemistry and biology tutor
- 250 hrs English debate channel debatee and content editor; will continue
- 312 hrs support talk line host and management
- 965 hrs caretaker and coordinator in ICU (listing this as others since this is for family)
- Relevant honors or awards (I’m not listing any of these in my application)
- Chem dept First year award
- Frank Fanning Jewett Award (for remarkable promise in chemistry)
- University honors
- Some other academic stuff
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- Non-criminal Minor misdemeanor for speeding ticket in 2017
- 2 gap years
- Will have 4 strong LORs
- Reason for medicine: My caretaker passed away when I was 15 while my mom had cancer; the doctor helped me extensively and reignited my hope. This prompted my passion in medicine, to support and advocate for patient and their family during their greatest distress.
- I got my green card 3 years ago right before COVID hit, so it had been difficult to find opportunities in medicine
- University of Michigan
- Wayne State
- Oakland
- Michigan State
- Central Michigan
- Case Western
- Ohio State
- Northwestern
- University of Chicago
- Rush Medical College
- Loyola
- Duke
- University of Pittsburg
- UPenn
- Tulane
- University of Virginia
- Mayo Clinic (Alix)
- Dartmouth
- UNC Chapel Hill
- Boston
- Vanderbilt
- Rochester
- University of Colorado