Golden_Fox
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- cGPA/sGPA: 3.88 / 3.79
- MCAT: 512 (129/127/126/130)
- State of Residence: New York
- Ethnicity/Race: White Male
- Undergraduate Institution: Private university in Florida
- Clinical Experience: 480 hours (280 hours working as a scribe at a family medicine clinic + 200 hours as a volunteer medical assistant at a clinic for the homeless and uninsured)
8. Research: 500 hrs in neurodegenerative disease; 2 posters
9. Non-Clinical Volunteering:
- Non-Profit Organization (600 hours, Co-Founder, Most Meaningful): Led fundraising and medical supply campaigns for children’s hospitals in Eastern European cities raising over $8,000. Recognized in Eastern European media. Started organization in high school during 2020.
- Volunteer Tutor (50 hours): Tutored English to Ukrainians amid wartime hardship.
- Pathway Scholars (222 hours): Coordinator managing mentor/mentee programming for students from underfunded high schools to help them get into college, Presidential Service Award recipient.
- Culture Club President (450 hours, Most Meaningful): Led cultural programming; organized Ukrainian memorial exhibit.
- Pre-Health Organization President (500 hours): Led a large pre-health student organization with over 700 members, initiated service expansions.
- Student Government (300 hours): Drafted “Support for Ukraine” legislation and organized large-scale community events.
- Biology Workshop Leader (50 hours): Led peer tutoring sessions for underclassmen.
- Pre-Medical Fraternity (100 hours): Led professional development events for members, helped raise $12K for nearby children’s hospital.
- Service Trip (50 hours): Medical/dental/pharma outreach in Peru (medical mission trip)
- Running (200 hours): Half marathon finisher, member of an NYC run club, training for full marathon post-injury.
12. Gap Year Plans: Part time paid medical assistant position, part time volunteer clinical research position
13. Other Info: Fluent in Russian; used language skills in clinical, tutoring, and nonprofit work. Application will strongly emphasize my commitment to service and Russian/Ukrainian heritage.
This is the list of 50 schools I have created (I am planning on applying to ~40-45). Please let me know if I should add/remove any schools. I have done pre-college programs at Brown and Yale (not sure if those counts as ties).
University of Vermont, Tulane University, Drexel University, Temple University, Wake Forest University, Albany Medical College, George Washington University, Quinnipiac University, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Florida State University, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Loyola University Chicago, University of Illinois, Western Michigan, Medical College of Wisconsin, Rosalind Franklin University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, West Virginia University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, Oakland University William Beaumont, Wayne State University, University of Miami, University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Rush University, University of Florida, Tufts University, Georgetown University, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Hackensack Meridian, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Hofstra University, Pennsylvania State University, Florida Atlantic University, University of Southern California, Yale University, University of Chicago, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Duke University School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Boston University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York Medical College, Brown University, University of Rochester.
