PurpleLightSky
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- AMCAS GPA: cGPA 3.3 and sGPA 3.35 AACOMAS: sGPA 3.4x + master's GPA 3.9x (this was kind of an SMP but not through the med school, lasted one year, 15 credit hours both semesters)
- MCAT 500 (127, 125, 124, 124) -> 503 (125, 124, 128, 126)
- State of residence: Midwest + dual citizenship
- Ethnicity and/or race: ORM white
- Undergraduate institution or category: state college
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
- university's clinic: 800 hours started during covid, learned administrative side of healthcare since my boss was the clinic manager + was in a leadership position
- clinical research: 450h during a little less than a year, did not get published, interacted with patients to enroll them in several different studies. This was more clinical than research because I gathered the data but did not analyze it. I was in a leadership position overseeing a team of 10-15 people. Diverse pop and doctors, got to speak other foreign languages that I know. (PI is an MD that offered to write a letter of rec before I even asked for one, they are awesome and well know in the hospital network + in state med school)
- full time clinical research just started and will be working during application year (so will be 1500-2000 hours by the time of matriculation
- Research experience and productivity
- research with computer coding: 150h in trying to code for a program that actually did not end up working, but it was fun. Did not get published but the application (if the program were to ever work) would have real world application. It has been 2 years since I did this project and no one has figured out how to make it work haha.
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- in person shadowing: cardiologist, medical examiners, rheumatology, about 60h total. I also did online shadowing for about 80h but I did not include that in the application since I had real in person shadowing
- Non-clinical volunteering ( I do not have much volunteering because I have to pay my bills, and this is also reflected by my long resume and having virtually no unemployed time since I started college even during covid)
- tour guide for museum: i value humanities, history, and other fine arts. about 80h, 50h projected, have been doing this for a year and a half.
- science fair: 8h did it once but I loved it, def planning on doing this again
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Teaching assistant: 100h in 1 year, loved to mentor the students
- Relevant honors or awards
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- I have other non-clinical jobs (total of 1530h) in customer service for the first two years before I knew I wanted to go to med school
- Worked for medical examiner office (400h) and this is when I knew I wanted to go to medical school and help people before they die/ help them improve symptoms and have decent life before they die.
- spanish intermediate (can become fluent if i were to use it everyday for like a month), another european language fluenty/native
- I received FAP. I did not write the adversity assay bc tbh I feel like I did not have any major disadvantages that trickled down (like URM might experience or people from extremely low SES) but a bunch of tiny things that all felt like reaches so I decided to leave them out.