flightzebra
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Hi! I'm a reapplicant who previosuly applied in the 2024–2025 cycle. Unfortunately, I didn't receive interview invites, partly due to delays in submitting secondaries after a serious car accident in August. I ended up submitting only 20 schools, mostly in September and October. Fortunately, I have fully recovered since then and decided to reapply this year after receiving feedback from others, including one of the admission committee member at one of the schools I applied to.
The notable changes since my previous application are 1000 hours of scribe work experience, 100 additional hours of shadowing in family medicine and 50 hours in cardiology. I have rewritten my personal statement with a clearer focus on my motivation for pursuing medicine and transition from pre-pharm to pre-med during college. Thank you in advance for taking the time to review my post!
The notable changes since my previous application are 1000 hours of scribe work experience, 100 additional hours of shadowing in family medicine and 50 hours in cardiology. I have rewritten my personal statement with a clearer focus on my motivation for pursuing medicine and transition from pre-pharm to pre-med during college. Thank you in advance for taking the time to review my post!
- cGPA: 3.94, sGPA: 3.93
- MCAT score: 507 (128/125/125/ 129) --> 520 (131/126/131/132) in 2024
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): CA
- Ethnicity and/or race: Asian (ORM)
- Undergraduate institution: UCLA Biochem major (Class of 2023)
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 1000 hours as Family medicine scribe, 800 hours at CVS as Pharm tech, 300 hours at Veterans Home (Pharm Tech Volunteer), 50 hospital volunteer hours, will continue to work as a scribe next year
- Research experience and productivity: 500 hours but no posters/presentations
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 150 hours in Family Medicine, 50 hours in Cardiology
- Non-clinical volunteering: 300 hours at a Senior Center (Co-President at student org serving older adults), plan to volunteer as a tutor and at a Senior Center
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): 200 hours of tutoring, 70 hours of Table Tennis Club Sports), 300 hours Co-President at public health student org (LA regional Food Bank, Care Package Drives), Social Chair at Pre-pharm society
- Relevant honors or awards: College Honors
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
Moved to the U.S. during junior high, Ran 2 LA marathons in 2020 and 2023 during college, plan to run another marathon this year
| School | Prev Applied? |
| UC Irvine | Y |
| UCLA | Y |
| UCSD | Y |
| UCSF | Y |
| USC | Y |
| Stanford | Y |
| Kaiser | N |
| CUSM | Y |
| Rosalind Franklin | Y |
| Georgetown | Y |
| Albert Einstein | Y |
| Emory | Y |
| Mount Sinai | Y |
| Hofstra | Y |
| Rochester | Y |
| Cincinnati | Y |
| Vermont | Y |
| Northwestern | Y |
| Wash Univ (in St. Louis) | Y |
| Casewestern | Y |
| Arizona - Phoenix | Y |
| USF Morsani | Y |
| Pitt | Y |
| U Chicago | N |
| UVA | N |
| Drexel | N |
| NYMC | N |
| Boston Univ | N |
| Oakland Beaumont | N |
| Western Michigan | N |
| U Wisconsin | N |
| MC Wisonsin | N |
| Virginia Commonwealth | N |
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