Hello,
Could anyone offer advice for me as I apply this cycle. I am a traditional applicant but I unfortunately scored a bit low on my MCAT compared to my FL averages but it's too late to take it again this cycle. Please just be real with me, I'm just trying to see my weaknesses and work on them over the next year in case this cycle doesn't work out.
Scores:
Major: Biomedical Engineering with focus on bio/nanomaterials
GPA: 3.8 (Did not really change much)
MCAT: 513
Research Experience:
Lab Experience: Worked with 2 labs over the past 3 years
Fields: Pediatric neuroimaging, microsurgery and regenerative medicine
Publications: 0, but should have one or two by next March (Should I mention this in my SRE?)
Research hours: Close to 2k
Posters: 3 (All regional)
Oral Presentations: 1 at prestigious conference
Patents: 1 in progress
BME Design: Have worked on 2, semester long, projects with doctor clients where my team successfully created the product and wrote lengthy final reports and presented posters at yearly fair (did not include these in the poster count but would bring it up to 5).
Clinical Experience:
Experience:
ED Tech ~ 1000 hr
Shadowing ~ 10 different doctors and different specialties, 80hr
Volunteering ~ 80 hr
Community Volunteering:
Through clubs and stuff: 35 hr
Clubs:
Premedical Club: Vice President, very involved position
Volleyball Club: Travel volleyball team that practices 3 times a week.
Letters of Rec:
1. MD/PhD Co-PI: Strong letter and very well known
2. PhD PhD Co-PI: Very strong letter, he is a close mentor to me.
3. PhD Neuroimaging PI: Strong Letter
4. MD ER Doc: Very strong letter, we are very close.
5. MD Research Doc from regenerative medicine lab: Strong letter
6. MD/PhD Doc I shadowed: Extremely Strong Letter, he is one of the main reasons I am doing this path and has been reading my essays, overall very involved.
Research Interest:
I am very interested in pursuing research in nanomedicine for neuro-oncological applications and hope to become a neuro-oncologist too. This field to me combines all my research interests and my major into one direction and the schools I list below are ones I feel I have a chance with my stats and match my research fit.
School List:
Could anyone offer advice for me as I apply this cycle. I am a traditional applicant but I unfortunately scored a bit low on my MCAT compared to my FL averages but it's too late to take it again this cycle. Please just be real with me, I'm just trying to see my weaknesses and work on them over the next year in case this cycle doesn't work out.
Scores:
Major: Biomedical Engineering with focus on bio/nanomaterials
GPA: 3.8 (Did not really change much)
MCAT: 513
Research Experience:
Lab Experience: Worked with 2 labs over the past 3 years
Fields: Pediatric neuroimaging, microsurgery and regenerative medicine
Publications: 0, but should have one or two by next March (Should I mention this in my SRE?)
Research hours: Close to 2k
Posters: 3 (All regional)
Oral Presentations: 1 at prestigious conference
Patents: 1 in progress
BME Design: Have worked on 2, semester long, projects with doctor clients where my team successfully created the product and wrote lengthy final reports and presented posters at yearly fair (did not include these in the poster count but would bring it up to 5).
Clinical Experience:
Experience:
ED Tech ~ 1000 hr
Shadowing ~ 10 different doctors and different specialties, 80hr
Volunteering ~ 80 hr
Community Volunteering:
Through clubs and stuff: 35 hr
Clubs:
Premedical Club: Vice President, very involved position
Volleyball Club: Travel volleyball team that practices 3 times a week.
Letters of Rec:
1. MD/PhD Co-PI: Strong letter and very well known
2. PhD PhD Co-PI: Very strong letter, he is a close mentor to me.
3. PhD Neuroimaging PI: Strong Letter
4. MD ER Doc: Very strong letter, we are very close.
5. MD Research Doc from regenerative medicine lab: Strong letter
6. MD/PhD Doc I shadowed: Extremely Strong Letter, he is one of the main reasons I am doing this path and has been reading my essays, overall very involved.
Research Interest:
I am very interested in pursuing research in nanomedicine for neuro-oncological applications and hope to become a neuro-oncologist too. This field to me combines all my research interests and my major into one direction and the schools I list below are ones I feel I have a chance with my stats and match my research fit.
School List:
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Drexel University College of Medicine
- Indiana University School of Medicine
- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
- Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
- Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
- Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
- University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- University of Connecticut School of Medicine
- University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
- University of Kansas School of Medicine
- University of Michigan Medical School (Reach)
- University of Nebraska College of Medicine
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine (Reach)
- University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Reach)
- University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine
- Wayne State University School of Medicine