- Planning to apply roughly half MD/half DO
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
- sGPA:3.88 cGPA:3.93
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown
- July 2020- 495 |122|123|125|125
- May 2022- 506 |126|125|127|128
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
- IL
- Ethnicity and/or race
- White
- Undergraduate institution or category
- Small private liberal arts college
- Clinical experience (volunteer and paid)
- Patient Care Technician on inpatient surgical floor: 1000 hours completed, 1100 expected
- Emergency room scribe: 900 hours
- Recreational volunteer (i.e. playing/interacting with) for an organization that provides transitional care for children with medical complexities- 100 hours
- Research experience and productivity
- Research on soil samples: resulted in a poster which was presented at my college's research symposium and developedof a protocol used in future lab classes at my college- 250 hours
- Research on a thermophilic bacteria: Also resulted in a poster presentation- 200 hours
- Research intern at MD Anderson Cancer Center: Wrote a research abstract (not published) and poster Also presented my work to the lab- 680 hours
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- 120 hours total- 60 hours w/ cardiologist, 30 hours w/ pediatrician, 10 hours w/ melanoma oncologist, 20 hours w/ internal medicine
- Non-clinical volunteering
- Member/counselor for organization that provides free summer camps for kids whose parent's have/have had cancer- 650 hours
- May also be considered leadership, but was also volunteer coordinator (i.e. interview and train members) and outreach coordinator (i.e. liaison between guardians and various chapters) for this organization
- Member/counselor for organization that provides free summer camps for kids whose parent's have/have had cancer- 650 hours
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- 2 years Biology lab worker
- Biology tutor
- Summer camp counselor for 3 summer
- 2 years rush chair for fraternity
- Relevant honors or awards
- Eagle Scout, summa cum laude, 1 of 3 students to graduate with a biology distinction award
- School List (so far- work in progress)
- MD- Rush, Loyola, UIC, Rosalind Franklin, Southern Illinois, MCW, SLU, Creighton, UMKC, Central Michigan, Oakland University, Drexel, Georgtown
- DO- CCOM, DMU-COM, ATSU-KCOM, KCU-COM, Kansas COM, MSUCOM, MU-COM, OSU-COM, KYCOM, ARCOM
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