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Hello! Really struggling to build a good school list, largely in trying to find research fit. It doesn't feel like I currently have any safety/target schools, but also do any MD/PhD programs qualify as that? Also very worried about my (ridiculously) low clinical hours and relatively low GPA.
Overview
cGPA: 3.69 (hopefully 3.7 after this semester)
sGPA: 3.58
MCAT: 527 (132/131/132/132)
Residency: California
Undergraduate Institution: T50, T10-20 for major (BME) and known for grade deflation
Ethnicity and/or Race, Gender: ORM, Male
Research Interests: Hemorrhagic stroke, biomaterials/nanotechnology, regenerative medicine
Clinical Experience: 10 hours shadowing (pain medicine and OB anesthesia), 15 hours at-home caretaking. Will hopefully get more shadowing during my gap year.
Research Experience:
4 years in primary wet lab, ~2000 hours: Mid-author pub followed by a few independent projects (presented at institution wide symposiums, first author methods paper in prep hopefully submitted for review over the summer).
2 years in computational lab, ~400 hours: Not a huge fan of this work but entirely spearheaded by me and my partner on the project, with a possible co-first author pub.
6 months in clinical research internship, ~400 hours: No productivity but did an intern project where I created a mock clinical trial proposal instead of reviewing a paper for the center.
Future: Have an interview for a gap year tech position for next week, would be ~2000 hours in a wet lab.
Leadership/volunteering:
Counselor for Camp Kesem (free summer camp for kids whose caregivers have cancer), also led fundraising for 2 years (110k combined raised). ~700 hours, ~200 more by end of summer.
Co-founder and finance coordinator for a student run STOP THE BLEED chapter, worked with local safety net hospital. ~300 hours.
Mentor for sophomore engineers for two years. ~50 hours.
Other: Science LoRs are from engineering professors, not BCPM professors (one physics/bio heavy class and one lit heavy grad class).
School List (no particular order):
UMich
UMaryland
Emory
Johns Hopkins
BU
Harvard
Tufts
Albert Einstein
UNC
Northwestern
UChicago
University of Illinois, Chicago
Duke
UConn
UCSD
UCLA
USC
Vanderbilt
Yale
Tri-I
UPenn
Icahn
UPitt
UCSF
UWash
Stanford
Overview
cGPA: 3.69 (hopefully 3.7 after this semester)
sGPA: 3.58
MCAT: 527 (132/131/132/132)
Residency: California
Undergraduate Institution: T50, T10-20 for major (BME) and known for grade deflation
Ethnicity and/or Race, Gender: ORM, Male
Research Interests: Hemorrhagic stroke, biomaterials/nanotechnology, regenerative medicine
Clinical Experience: 10 hours shadowing (pain medicine and OB anesthesia), 15 hours at-home caretaking. Will hopefully get more shadowing during my gap year.
Research Experience:
4 years in primary wet lab, ~2000 hours: Mid-author pub followed by a few independent projects (presented at institution wide symposiums, first author methods paper in prep hopefully submitted for review over the summer).
2 years in computational lab, ~400 hours: Not a huge fan of this work but entirely spearheaded by me and my partner on the project, with a possible co-first author pub.
6 months in clinical research internship, ~400 hours: No productivity but did an intern project where I created a mock clinical trial proposal instead of reviewing a paper for the center.
Future: Have an interview for a gap year tech position for next week, would be ~2000 hours in a wet lab.
Leadership/volunteering:
Counselor for Camp Kesem (free summer camp for kids whose caregivers have cancer), also led fundraising for 2 years (110k combined raised). ~700 hours, ~200 more by end of summer.
Co-founder and finance coordinator for a student run STOP THE BLEED chapter, worked with local safety net hospital. ~300 hours.
Mentor for sophomore engineers for two years. ~50 hours.
Other: Science LoRs are from engineering professors, not BCPM professors (one physics/bio heavy class and one lit heavy grad class).
School List (no particular order):
UMich
UMaryland
Emory
Johns Hopkins
BU
Harvard
Tufts
Albert Einstein
UNC
Northwestern
UChicago
University of Illinois, Chicago
Duke
UConn
UCSD
UCLA
USC
Vanderbilt
Yale
Tri-I
UPenn
Icahn
UPitt
UCSF
UWash
Stanford
