- cGPA: 3.67 sGPA: 3.52 with upward trend (3.0 to 3.7 to 3.75 to 3.9)
- MCAT: 513 - C/P: 128 CARS: 129 BIO: 126 P/S: 130 (took in April 2022 but I believe it should still be valid for most, if not all schools)
- California Resident
- White/Middle Eastern
- Institution: Cal Poly SLO
- Clinical exp: ER scribe for one year - about 750 hours. Scribe, eventually scribe manager for inpatient and outpatient county psychiatry peds/adult clinic. About 2500 hours. Volunteer at syringe exchange program - about 100 hours.
- Research Exp: Third author pub in neuroscience research. Lab manager of that same neuroscience lab. First author manuscript submitted for publication, has not been published yet. Poster presentations at CNS and SFN. Designed and conducted a unique study on meditation for my senior project. Research internship in an international lab studying attention and timing in the brain.
- Shadowing: Shadowed a cardiologist for about 5 hours early in college. Shadowed two anasthesiologists for about 10 hours later in college.
- Non clinical volunteering: About 100 hours volunteering with adults with disabilities in SLO. 25 hours of volunteering for an organization called phone friends, giving lonely elderly folks company during the height of the pandemic. About 25 hours of food bank volunteering. I also plan on coaching a group of girls in a 5k this spring for an organization called girls on the run that is centered around empowering young women, but if I’m unable to do so I plan on doing some other type of volunteering or mentoring with youth.
- Other activities: Currently I’m working full time as an analytical chemistry researcher at UCSF. I started in October and will most likely remain in this job until I hopefully matriculate. I was a study session leader during my undergraduate years for chemistry and physics — about 600 hours. I do private tutoring now for extra income. I was also the volunteer chair coordinator on the AMSA exec board for one year in school.
- Awards: President’s list Sophomore, junior, and senior year of college.
- Other info: I applied to a whopping 47 MD schools in June of 2022. In hindsight, I think it was too many, although I and close friends/colleagues felt like my writing was strong across the board. I was on time/early with my submissions as well. I ended up getting one interview to a mid tier school I would’ve been very happy to attend, but was waitlisted and not taken off. I plan to apply to somewhere between 20 and 35 this cycle. I also plan on applying DO this cycle so I am curious what schools would be recommended for me as well.
California Northstate
CUSM
Keck
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UCSD
UCSF
UVM
MCW
U wash Seattle
EVMS
VCU
VTC
TCU
Texas at Tyler
Univ South Carolina Greenville
Brown
Drexel
Geisenger
Temple
Penn State
Sidney Kimmel
Univ of Pittsburgh
Ohio state
Univ of Cincinnati
Univ of North Dakota
Wake forest
Albany
NYMC
Cooper
Hackensack
Kirk UNLV
Univ of Nebraska
St Louis
Univ of Minnesota
Oakland
Wayne state
Stryker
Tufts
U Kansas
Univ of Iowa
Rosalind Franklin
Univ of Illinois
Emory
Nova
UCF
Univ of Miami
GW
Quinnipiac
Univ of Colorado
Univ of Arizona Phoenix
DO:
Rocky Vista Univ
NYC of OM of NYIT
Western Univ of Health Sciences
Michigan State Univ
Midwestern Univ
Touro
