Hey y'all I posted this on reddit, no replies so I'll paste it here. A little background, community college for 2 years (HCC) to Texas A&M, 1st time applicant, URM.
- State/Country of Residence: Texas
- Ties to other States/Regions: Missouri (Birth to age 14)
- Year in School: Graduated B.S. May 2019
- Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Biomedical Science
- Graduate Degrees (if applicable): N/A
- Cumulative GPA: 3.69
- Science GPA: 3.73
- MCAT Score(s): 8/2/19: 504 (126/125/126/127), 3/14/20: 506 (128/123/129/126)
- Research Experience: Nothing major, had an entomology group research project (idk if this counts)
- Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. First author, second author, etc.): The paper from this project will be publish later this year in a journal of student research for my school (once again idk if this counts lol)
- Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): 100 in hospital (volunteer), 50 home health caregiver (paid)
- Physician Shadowing: 200 (one nephrologist in clinic, hospital, and dialysis centers)
- Non-Clinical Volunteering: ~250 (various activities like food pantries, youth basketball referee, youth group leader at church, plus other misc. activities)
- Other Extracurricular Activities: African Student Association Dance Team (2 years), Cooking/Baking, Violin, IM Basketball, Soccer, Sand volleyball
- Other Employment History: Academy Sports & Outdoors (2.5 years), Super Bowl Event Security (1 month), Food delivery (1 year), Home health company (mainly in office in an administrative role, but still visited patient’s for non-skilled admissions and supervisory visits)
- Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): Y, both parents are RN’s
- Specialty of Interest (if applicable): Internal Medicine (nephrology or endocrinology if I had to pick, but I’m open to any and everything)
- Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Y
- Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): Y
- Medical School List:
- All TMDSAS schools
- University of Missouri (Columbia)
- University of Missouri (Kansas City)
- LSU
- Morehouse
- Howard
