HuckleberryEven
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- Pre-Medical
Going to be graduating in the summer and applying in 2024. I've pretty much figured out my ECS at this point and have my stats in for the most part so why not do an app review? I'm primarily interested in infectious diseases and would like to do policy work in the future and that's a pretty big theme of my application. It's something that I figured out relatively later in college so most of my experience is very recent. I hate to say I have a dream school but it's probably going to have to be Georgetown or George Washington given their location and my interests.
Stats: 3.7+/3.6+, 515
Clinical Experience: Volunteer at a physical rehab clinic + hospice for past year (350 hours), scribing during my gap year and continuing my hospice volunteering so at the very least will have a total of 2300 hours. Got about 60 shadowing hours might do a bit more for fun and to explore different fields.
Volunteer Experience: 285 hours as a crisis volunteer, 120 hours with a food donation center, 600 hours with the Red Cross (non-client facing role though). I feel like this is a bit of a weakness and I planning on putting more hours at the food donation center during my gap years. Overall will probably have a total of `` ~1700-1800 hours.
Research Experience: Total of 1300 hours. Breakdown is below
Stats: 3.7+/3.6+, 515
Clinical Experience: Volunteer at a physical rehab clinic + hospice for past year (350 hours), scribing during my gap year and continuing my hospice volunteering so at the very least will have a total of 2300 hours. Got about 60 shadowing hours might do a bit more for fun and to explore different fields.
Volunteer Experience: 285 hours as a crisis volunteer, 120 hours with a food donation center, 600 hours with the Red Cross (non-client facing role though). I feel like this is a bit of a weakness and I planning on putting more hours at the food donation center during my gap years. Overall will probably have a total of `` ~1700-1800 hours.
Research Experience: Total of 1300 hours. Breakdown is below
- 2020-2022 : Research at a classic biology lab (250 hours). Did wet-lab research, won a research fellowship grant award. Ultimately nothing came out of my time there because of COVID and I realized I just did not mesh with the lab/hate wet lab research.
- 2022- Present:
- Honors Thesis (350 hours): I don't think anything will probably come out of it by the time I apply. Advisor wants to publish with more data but I don't now how long that will take so not confident in saying that I would have a publication by the time I apply.
- Political Psychology Research (280 hours): My own independent study that I am doing. Currently collecting data and professor wants to publish and want me to do conference presentations during my gap years. Highly confident it will work out before my application.
- Army Research (220 hours): Another independent study reviewing Army's health policies and giving recommendations. Have to present to leadership and got the green-light to publish in of their "journals" (not really a journal more of a place to write an opinion piece and then they link your research work).
- Independent Study (200 hours): Analyzing efficacy of health aid programs. Don't really have a concrete publication avenue set but it's most likely going to be in an undergraduate journal/low-impact journal. I'm also doing a white paper that can be published at my university's IR page.
- Did Student Assembly or was involved in Stud. Assembly-supporting positions since my sophomore year. I like to think we did some good stuff that I can write about.
- Will be interning this summer with a fed agency. Involves health stuff but it's a pretty unique application of it that I think would be pretty interesting to an adcom (or not, I don't know).
- Doing a policy competition soon, hopefully I win so I could include that here lol.
