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25 y/o Caucasian male waiting to apply this cycle after finishing a post bacc program in May of 2019. Graduated from Villanova in 2016 with a degree in Finance and a very non competitive GPA of 2.94. After working at a brokerage firm for 16 months I started a post bacc and achieved a 3.97 where all of my pre reqs were taken minus Gen chem 1,2 which were taken freshman year of undergrad. Scored a 521 on MCAT as well.
Country/state of residence: New York
GPA’s:
uGPA: 2.94 (included Gen Chem 1 lecture : A-, Gen chem 1 lab: A, Gen chem 2 lecture B-, Gen Chem 2 lab: A all taken freshman year)
Post bacc GPA: 3.97 All prereqs (did not retake general chemistry also took two semesters of biochem and cell biology)
Blended: Post bacc combined with uGPA = 3.17
Mcat Score: 521 (130/128/132/131)
Research: Performed a research internship during post bacc where I helped collect data for a study in the ER but did not get any type of authorship as I only was involved for 3 months.
Volunteering: Volunteer EMT for local volunteer Ambulance Corps
Non-clinical Volunteering:
1) Big brother for Big Brother Big Sisters of Long Island for the past 2 years
2) City tutors - tutoring disadvantaged adults in math for their High school equivalency exam (started this past month)
3) peer tutor for organic chemistry during post bacc one semester
Physician Shadowing:
1)Over 100 Hours combined between ED physicians and Internal medicine physicians
2) summer internship surgical shadowing program
Employment History:
No family members are physicians
Any advice on where to apply/how to view my GPA when looking at median GPA’s for schools/ If I have a chance at MD (is my uGPA just too low?)/ and lastly if I can apply to research heavy schools w/ minimum research experience considering I did not decide to pursue medicine until a time in my life where I was either working going to school or volunteering so research would have been very difficult to get involved with especially as a post bacc student
Country/state of residence: New York
GPA’s:
uGPA: 2.94 (included Gen Chem 1 lecture : A-, Gen chem 1 lab: A, Gen chem 2 lecture B-, Gen Chem 2 lab: A all taken freshman year)
Post bacc GPA: 3.97 All prereqs (did not retake general chemistry also took two semesters of biochem and cell biology)
Blended: Post bacc combined with uGPA = 3.17
Mcat Score: 521 (130/128/132/131)
Research: Performed a research internship during post bacc where I helped collect data for a study in the ER but did not get any type of authorship as I only was involved for 3 months.
Volunteering: Volunteer EMT for local volunteer Ambulance Corps
Non-clinical Volunteering:
1) Big brother for Big Brother Big Sisters of Long Island for the past 2 years
2) City tutors - tutoring disadvantaged adults in math for their High school equivalency exam (started this past month)
3) peer tutor for organic chemistry during post bacc one semester
Physician Shadowing:
1)Over 100 Hours combined between ED physicians and Internal medicine physicians
2) summer internship surgical shadowing program
Employment History:
- Worked as a trade management associate for an International Brokerage firm following undergraduate for 1.5 years,
- have been a group fitness instructor since leaving finance and going back to school
- currently am a full time medical scribe, scribing for three different family practice physicians
No family members are physicians
Any advice on where to apply/how to view my GPA when looking at median GPA’s for schools/ If I have a chance at MD (is my uGPA just too low?)/ and lastly if I can apply to research heavy schools w/ minimum research experience considering I did not decide to pursue medicine until a time in my life where I was either working going to school or volunteering so research would have been very difficult to get involved with especially as a post bacc student