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I am a non-trad applicant and I'm struggling with building a school list. I'm open to suggestions I am not sure what I should do or how competitive I am in general. I have a heavy research background and I've gotten a lot of clinical experience over the last year. I also have a lot of international experience. My undergrad GPA is lower. I hadn't figured out the optimal way of studying for me back then and I had a death in the family my freshman year that derailed me a bit. I'm open to any advice.
1. cGPA and sGPA: AMCAS
Graduated from undergrad in 2014 with a degree in biochemistry: cGPA 3.46 sGPA 3.46
Completed 24 credits in a diy postbac between 2022 and 2023: 4.0
After diy post bac: cGPA 3.56 sGPA 3.54
I have a foreign masters that I got in a foreign country in a hard science. I know it doesn’t count towards my stats but I did graduate top of my class in 2017.
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts.
2017: 507 (126/128/128/125)
2023: 520 (128/130/131/131)
3. State of residence: MA
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Black
5. Undergraduate institution or category: T-10 Ivy
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- 2000 hours (ongoing) as a paid medical assistant
- 100 hours (2014) as a volunteer medical assistant overseas (not voluntourism. I grew up in this country and decided to volunteer during my gap year between undergrad and grad school. It’s this experience that made me consider medicine)
7. Research experience and productivity
- 2013: had a research internship in Japan over the summer during study abroad. I presented my research to the entire institution at the end of my stint and attended a conference.
- 2015: summer job as a research technician for a US governmental agency
- 2016: 3 month research internship at a prestigious intitution in France. My thesis was used as part of a published paper.
- 2017: 6 month research internship in Germany.
- 2017 to 2022: job as a research fellow for US governmental agency. Only one paper published but we frequently wrote reports and presented data that afected national policy.
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- 40 hours: general surgeon in a foreign country
- 100 hours: as a volunteer medical assistant, one of my tasks was scribing for a primary care physician
- 2000 hours: currently as a medical assistant, one of my tasks is scribing for a dermatologist
9. Non-clinical volunteering (none recent)
- none recent but I used to teach art afterschool to children at a local school in my college town
- I was part of a mentoring program in undergrad for new students in the sciences
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- i received a masters in europe in 2017 in a hard science.
- I worked for a governmental agency for 5 years as a researcher
- during the pandemic, I was caretaking for a sick family member while taking postbac classes and going to work full time.
11. Relevant honors or awards
- my lab received an award from the gov agency I worked for for our work during the pandemic.
I am a non-trad applicant and I'm struggling with building a school list. I'm open to suggestions I am not sure what I should do or how competitive I am in general. I have a heavy research background and I've gotten a lot of clinical experience over the last year. I also have a lot of international experience. My undergrad GPA is lower. I hadn't figured out the optimal way of studying for me back then and I had a death in the family my freshman year that derailed me a bit. I'm open to any advice.
1. cGPA and sGPA: AMCAS
Graduated from undergrad in 2014 with a degree in biochemistry: cGPA 3.46 sGPA 3.46
Completed 24 credits in a diy postbac between 2022 and 2023: 4.0
After diy post bac: cGPA 3.56 sGPA 3.54
I have a foreign masters that I got in a foreign country in a hard science. I know it doesn’t count towards my stats but I did graduate top of my class in 2017.
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts.
2017: 507 (126/128/128/125)
2023: 520 (128/130/131/131)
3. State of residence: MA
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Black
5. Undergraduate institution or category: T-10 Ivy
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- 2000 hours (ongoing) as a paid medical assistant
- 100 hours (2014) as a volunteer medical assistant overseas (not voluntourism. I grew up in this country and decided to volunteer during my gap year between undergrad and grad school. It’s this experience that made me consider medicine)
7. Research experience and productivity
- 2013: had a research internship in Japan over the summer during study abroad. I presented my research to the entire institution at the end of my stint and attended a conference.
- 2015: summer job as a research technician for a US governmental agency
- 2016: 3 month research internship at a prestigious intitution in France. My thesis was used as part of a published paper.
- 2017: 6 month research internship in Germany.
- 2017 to 2022: job as a research fellow for US governmental agency. Only one paper published but we frequently wrote reports and presented data that afected national policy.
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- 40 hours: general surgeon in a foreign country
- 100 hours: as a volunteer medical assistant, one of my tasks was scribing for a primary care physician
- 2000 hours: currently as a medical assistant, one of my tasks is scribing for a dermatologist
9. Non-clinical volunteering (none recent)
- none recent but I used to teach art afterschool to children at a local school in my college town
- I was part of a mentoring program in undergrad for new students in the sciences
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- i received a masters in europe in 2017 in a hard science.
- I worked for a governmental agency for 5 years as a researcher
- during the pandemic, I was caretaking for a sick family member while taking postbac classes and going to work full time.
11. Relevant honors or awards
- my lab received an award from the gov agency I worked for for our work during the pandemic.
