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Hi! Long-time lurker. I'm applying this cycle and was hoping I could get some feedback; I graduated from college May 2019, so I'm taking two gap years. I already have an idea of a school list, but I thought the more eyes, the better. Thank you for your input.
1. cGPA: 3.82, sGPA: 3.73, MCAT: 518 balanced. Not that it matters but bio/chem/history triple major, classes like pchem were mostly what brought down my GPA lol
2. Not CA/TX/NY - east coast
3. Asian-American, Female
4. Large state school
5. Clinical: 1000+ hours of working as ophthalmic technician part-time over first gap year (take pics of peoples eyes, record history, call in prescriptions, take eye pressure, do various testing, help the doctors with anything they need- I also go to several different locations, including rurally), will continue this until matriculation, also volunteered 700+ hours in an ER
6. Research: 5-6 years in a bioinformatics lab, defended undergraduate thesis and earned Honors, and led my own project; 3 years in a biochemistry lab, dramatically redesigned project and handed it off to a graduate student
7. Shadowing: Around 100 hours, 50 following a cardiologist and 50 in shadowing program in different subspecialties. Not sure if this counts but I also scribe at work so I've shadowed a bunch of ophthalmic exams as well
8. Non-clinical volunteering: 7+ years at a weekend school for underprivileged children (still doing this), 1+ years at a tutoring organization for helping refugee families learn English (still doing this), 2+ years at a senior retirement home, 3+ years in the ER
9. Teaching assistant for organic chemistry lab and lecture for 2+ years, triple major/degree at my university in biology/chemistry/history, was an ambassador for my College at school so I helped with student recruitment, had American Chemical Society leadership positions to promote chemistry education around the campus, tutoring
10. Honors in my departmental honors thesis, not sure if anything else
11. Definitely have an interest in rural medicine, can speak Spanish at an intermediate level? (took 7 years of it and continuing to learn, can speak Spanish with patients at work)
LizzyM: 74.2
WARS: 85-88 might be overestimating it though
The schools I'm looking at:
Baylor
Boston
UCSF
Case
UChicago
Cincinnati
Columbia
Cornell
UCLA
Duke
Einstein
Emory
GWU
Georgetown
JHU
Keck
Icahn
Miami
Michigan
Northwestern
NYU
Ohio State
Penn
Pittsburgh
Tufts
Vanderbilt
Vermont
Wake Forest
Thank you for your help!
1. cGPA: 3.82, sGPA: 3.73, MCAT: 518 balanced. Not that it matters but bio/chem/history triple major, classes like pchem were mostly what brought down my GPA lol
2. Not CA/TX/NY - east coast
3. Asian-American, Female
4. Large state school
5. Clinical: 1000+ hours of working as ophthalmic technician part-time over first gap year (take pics of peoples eyes, record history, call in prescriptions, take eye pressure, do various testing, help the doctors with anything they need- I also go to several different locations, including rurally), will continue this until matriculation, also volunteered 700+ hours in an ER
6. Research: 5-6 years in a bioinformatics lab, defended undergraduate thesis and earned Honors, and led my own project; 3 years in a biochemistry lab, dramatically redesigned project and handed it off to a graduate student
7. Shadowing: Around 100 hours, 50 following a cardiologist and 50 in shadowing program in different subspecialties. Not sure if this counts but I also scribe at work so I've shadowed a bunch of ophthalmic exams as well
8. Non-clinical volunteering: 7+ years at a weekend school for underprivileged children (still doing this), 1+ years at a tutoring organization for helping refugee families learn English (still doing this), 2+ years at a senior retirement home, 3+ years in the ER
9. Teaching assistant for organic chemistry lab and lecture for 2+ years, triple major/degree at my university in biology/chemistry/history, was an ambassador for my College at school so I helped with student recruitment, had American Chemical Society leadership positions to promote chemistry education around the campus, tutoring
10. Honors in my departmental honors thesis, not sure if anything else
11. Definitely have an interest in rural medicine, can speak Spanish at an intermediate level? (took 7 years of it and continuing to learn, can speak Spanish with patients at work)
LizzyM: 74.2
WARS: 85-88 might be overestimating it though
The schools I'm looking at:
Baylor
Boston
UCSF
Case
UChicago
Cincinnati
Columbia
Cornell
UCLA
Duke
Einstein
Emory
GWU
Georgetown
JHU
Keck
Icahn
Miami
Michigan
Northwestern
NYU
Ohio State
Penn
Pittsburgh
Tufts
Vanderbilt
Vermont
Wake Forest
Thank you for your help!
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