soldier boy
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- Joined
- Jun 29, 2024
- Messages
- 179
- Reaction score
- 124
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS : sGPA: 3.49, cGPA: 3.64 (everything upward trend)
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown. 2022 scores: 1st attempt: 495 =122/124/124/125, 2nd attempt: 500 = 124/124/127/125. 2023 scores: 3rd attempt: 509 =126/127/128/128 (overall 14 point increase across 3 attempts)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): FL
- Ethnicity and/or race: Asian
- Undergraduate institution or category: Public school (finished my bachelor degree in 3 years but took a gap year before applying this cycle)
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 1000 hours scribing paid employment (lots of projected), 1800 hours clinical volunteering at non profit clinic. (a little more projected), 1 conference attended
- Research experience and productivity: 1000 hours research, first author pub, and 1 poster presentation.
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 1800 hours clinical volunteering at non profit clinic (I was able to shadow doctors of different specialties in this clinic as well as volunteer)
- Non-clinical volunteering: 1000 hours food bank volunteering with leadership(little more projected), 300 hours international social justice advocacy
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): archery (participated in national competitions) and cricket.
- Relevant honors or awards: Dean's List in my junior and senior year where i took advanced science courses?
- Anything else not listed you think might be important: Lived in medically underserved area, part of immigrant family, took a gap year before applying this cycle
- School List: Everywhere Florida and states I have ties. Also applying broadly across the country to schools that I am in 25th percentile MCAT and GPA in (about 50 schools). Applying DO as well.
- Thoughts and concerns:
- I received 2 MD II this cycle so far but haven’t heard anything back and 7 rejections with 1 hold so far. I have some DO acceptances as a safety but I am really hoping for MD. Do I still have a chance this cycle or do I just take the DO acceptance and run with it?
- For further context: I dropped the ball in my freshman year, but that was in 2020 peak of COVID and I had some deaths in my family that required me to travel out of town for caregiving and I talk about it in secondaries. Since then, everything is upward trend in my GPA. I know the MCAT retakes are not great either but it is still an upwards trend. I worked a lot in my gap year on prewriting secondaries and having peer reviews on my primary and secondary from various people who have been on admissions committees and many say that my writing was solid.
