nabokovausten
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hi everyone, i’m applying this cycle and am waiting for my app to get verified + my retake score comes out in 2 weeks. i’ve already pre-written most of my secondaries but am looking to get a second opinion on which schools to add, if any. i’m not opposed to DO but would strongly prefer MD.
sorry my application is all over the place. also, my PS and work/activities have a pretty heavy psych narrative if that means anything. my brother committed suicide 2 years ago so my grades were rough for a bit (i was very depressed but didn’t want to explicitly say that anywhere on my application), so i talked about him and my motivations for wanting to go into psychiatry a lot in my app.
here are my stats:
23 y.o. white female, PA resident
Academics
MD LIST
sorry my application is all over the place. also, my PS and work/activities have a pretty heavy psych narrative if that means anything. my brother committed suicide 2 years ago so my grades were rough for a bit (i was very depressed but didn’t want to explicitly say that anywhere on my application), so i talked about him and my motivations for wanting to go into psychiatry a lot in my app.
here are my stats:
23 y.o. white female, PA resident
Academics
- UNDERGRAD: double majors in Biology & English (3.77 overall GPA); CS and philosophy minors
- GRADUATE: MS in Biotechnology at a T10 (4.0 GPA), completing and defending my research thesis next year
- MCAT: 504 124/128/124/128 → ???
- Dean’s List 6 semesters; graduated with Honors
- ~2,000 hours across OCD clinical, computational biology, and humanities research
- Multiple 1st author poster/oral presentations (including a national conference)
- 1 peer-reviewed humanities research publication
- 700 hours - ED scribe
- 60 hours - shadowing (psychiatry, emergency medicine)
- 210 hours - camp counselor for children with special needs
- 150 hours - essay tutor
- 125 hours - Crisis Text Line counselor
- 80 hours - suicide prevention advocacy (idk what else to call this i basically worked with my high school to add mental health resources and therapy appointments for the students)
- 160 hours - helped with the disability support services at my undergrad
- 210 hours - Apprentice teacher for a Health, Med, & Society Course
- Editorial roles (undergrad literary magazine, grad film magazine)
- Social media chair for my undergrad premed club
- didn’t include this in my app but my LOR writer likely mentioned it; i did about a year of public health volunteering/research
- 2 awarded undergrad research grants
- merit scholarship for grad school
- around 10 poetry publications + 2 film review essay publications (idk if admissions people care but it’s in my app anyways)
- over a 3 year period, i won 11 creative writing cash prizes at my undergrad in different things (philosophy, poetry, english essay, etc)
MD LIST
- penn state
- drexel
- rush
- thomas jefferson
- temple
- geisinger
- pitt (family member went there)
- albany
- new york med
- rosalind franklin
- quinnipiac
- creighton
- ohio state
- oakland
- alice walton
- med college of wisconsin
- wake forest
- loyola
- tulane
- wright state
- wayne state
- roseman
- lecom
- west virginia
- pikeville
- pcom
- new england
- william carey
