Hello guys I am new here!
(If you know me, no you don't lol)
I am applying this cycle, and tbh I am a little nervous about my application, because I did really bad on my MCAT, but I don't have time to take another one. I am only really looking at schools in Texas, and with the stats creep, I am not sure if I can get an admission to an MD school. I don't have regional ties to South, East or West TX.
I am debating on whether to apply OOS, or whether I should apply this cycle at all. I will have a committee letter, with 5 LORs.
Neither of my parents are doctors, and we are middle class. I am a Biochemistry major.
1. cGPA 3.94/sGPA 3.92; TMDSAS GPA are like cGPA 3.98/BCPM GPA 3.97
2. 514 (127/131/128/128) I am very nervous about my score, and even more weary about my score breakdown.
3. TX; born and raised. I go to my local commuter school on full academic scholarship.
4. Mixed race (Indian Asian & White) So most likely ORM, but I don't know how being mixed factors into the equation.
5. I go to a Tier I research facility but it's still the local commuter school lol
6. I volunteered at a COVID vaccine clinic over the pandemic (50-60 hours) and I was a scribe in an ED at an academic institution for a year (500 hours).
7. By the time I apply, I will have had 400 hours of research experience in a neuroscience lab. I will not have any publications or posters, but I might come my senior year/interview season. I have been acknowledged on my PhD student's poster.
8. I have shadowed a plastic surgeon for 60 hours. The vast majority of my clinical experience is in a pediatric ED as a scribe.
9. I will have had 440 hours of non clinical volunteering by the time I apply, but after this summer it will be 640. I volunteered twice as a counselor for Camp Kesem, which is a camp for kid's whose parents have cancer, serving 300 hours of my volunteering with Kesem. I also volunteered locally with my school's Alpha Epsilon Delta chapter.
10. I have leadership and teaching experience. I have served on the board of Alpha Epsilon Delta for the last 2 years, and I will be president next year. We have a large chapter (300 ppl) at my school. I have also served on the board of Kesem for the last two years as a Volunteer coordinator, and I have been in charge of recruitment and training of our volunteers to prepare them for working with children. (250 ish leadership hours). I also tutor in affiliation with the university, and have CRLA certifications. I tutor chemistry, and I will have had 275 tutoring hours by the time I apply. I am also going to be an UTA for a biology course in the fall (during interview season). I also participate in a clinical study at my local medical school, which has given me insight on how clinical research is conducted.
11. Dean's List F20, S22, F22, S23 (projected)
EDIT: My clinical volunteering and scribing was in large urban areas serving underprivileged populations. So I can work a mission fit with population health.
(If you know me, no you don't lol)
I am applying this cycle, and tbh I am a little nervous about my application, because I did really bad on my MCAT, but I don't have time to take another one. I am only really looking at schools in Texas, and with the stats creep, I am not sure if I can get an admission to an MD school. I don't have regional ties to South, East or West TX.
I am debating on whether to apply OOS, or whether I should apply this cycle at all. I will have a committee letter, with 5 LORs.
Neither of my parents are doctors, and we are middle class. I am a Biochemistry major.
1. cGPA 3.94/sGPA 3.92; TMDSAS GPA are like cGPA 3.98/BCPM GPA 3.97
2. 514 (127/131/128/128) I am very nervous about my score, and even more weary about my score breakdown.
3. TX; born and raised. I go to my local commuter school on full academic scholarship.
4. Mixed race (Indian Asian & White) So most likely ORM, but I don't know how being mixed factors into the equation.
5. I go to a Tier I research facility but it's still the local commuter school lol
6. I volunteered at a COVID vaccine clinic over the pandemic (50-60 hours) and I was a scribe in an ED at an academic institution for a year (500 hours).
7. By the time I apply, I will have had 400 hours of research experience in a neuroscience lab. I will not have any publications or posters, but I might come my senior year/interview season. I have been acknowledged on my PhD student's poster.
8. I have shadowed a plastic surgeon for 60 hours. The vast majority of my clinical experience is in a pediatric ED as a scribe.
9. I will have had 440 hours of non clinical volunteering by the time I apply, but after this summer it will be 640. I volunteered twice as a counselor for Camp Kesem, which is a camp for kid's whose parents have cancer, serving 300 hours of my volunteering with Kesem. I also volunteered locally with my school's Alpha Epsilon Delta chapter.
10. I have leadership and teaching experience. I have served on the board of Alpha Epsilon Delta for the last 2 years, and I will be president next year. We have a large chapter (300 ppl) at my school. I have also served on the board of Kesem for the last two years as a Volunteer coordinator, and I have been in charge of recruitment and training of our volunteers to prepare them for working with children. (250 ish leadership hours). I also tutor in affiliation with the university, and have CRLA certifications. I tutor chemistry, and I will have had 275 tutoring hours by the time I apply. I am also going to be an UTA for a biology course in the fall (during interview season). I also participate in a clinical study at my local medical school, which has given me insight on how clinical research is conducted.
11. Dean's List F20, S22, F22, S23 (projected)
EDIT: My clinical volunteering and scribing was in large urban areas serving underprivileged populations. So I can work a mission fit with population health.
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