Prince_Avocado
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Hello everyone!
I am new to this community and was curious as to what you guys think my chances are of getting into osteopathic medical school this cycle. I've been having so much anxiety these past few weeks thinking whether or not I actually have a shot this cycle. If you guys think it's not strong enough, please let me know what I should do to improve it over the cycle!
Stats:
• MCAT: 501
• Cumulative GPA: 3.39
• Science GPA: 3.30
• Non-Science GPA: 3.52
Extracurricular Activities:
• Research Assistant (Psychology) - Total Hours: 125
→ Participated in a research study looking at whether a brief recollection intervention will lead to better physical and mental health among individuals above the age of 60.
→ Displayed excellent interpersonal skills while working with a research team to successfully administer experiments.
→ Managed research participants through scheduling, correspondence, paperwork, and task facilitation, maintaining confidentiality throughout.
• Research Assistant (Organic Chemistry) - Total Hours: 400
→ Created a library of compounds (chalcones, bis-chalcones, pyrazolines, and bis-pyrazolines) that bear hybrid biological behavior because of their structural similarity to curcuminoids.
→ Refluxed reactions involving terephthaldehyde and substituted acetophenones.
→ Monitored the progress of reactions by thin-layer chromatography.
→ Characterized products upon recrystallization by melting point, infrared radiation, and nuclear magnetic resonance.
→ Extracted organic compounds from solid-phase samples and prepared them for gas chromatography analysis.
• President of the Scientific Literature Society - Total Hours: 400
→ Created a space and audience for students to carry out research poster presentations, mock interviews, and argumentative debates surrounding current world events with a focus on the scientific field.
Healthcare Experience:
• Shadowing Experience -Total Hours: 140
→ Pediatric Emergency Specialist (M.D.)
→ Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon (M.D.)
→ Interventional Radiologist (M.D.)
→ Mental Health Specialist (M.D.)
→ Ophthalmologist (M.D.)
→ Gastroenterologist (M.D.)
→ Psychiatrist (M.D.)
→ Dermatologist (D.O.)
→ Internist (M.D.)
• Healthcare Volunteer - Total Hours: 1100
→ Communicated the needs of patients to nurses and acted as a liaison for the healthcare team.
→ Transported patients to all areas within the hospital.
→ Cleaned equipment, prepared beds, and restocked lab supplies.
→ Maintained patient medical charts and filed medical record forms.
→ Aided patients with filling up prescription orders and assisted nurses in preparing medication for intravenous treatments.
→ Collaborated with other departments throughout the hospital ensuring teamwork and patient satisfaction.
Non-Healthcare Employment:
• Private Tutor - Total Hours: 3300
→ Developed and implemented comprehensive lesson plans to accommodate specific type of learners.
→ Enhanced lessons through integration of innovative educational technology.
→ Tutored large number of students in topics ranging from Chemistry to English.
• Laboratory Assistant (Organic Chemistry) - Total Hours: 150
→ Leveraged strong planning and time management skills in performing laboratory reconfiguration to accommodate each classes' experimental setup.
→ Demonstrated a high degree of proficiency deciphering independent professors' experimental frameworks, formulations, and methods to produce quality experiments.
→ Highly adept in creating dilutions utilizing irregular quantities of solute/solvent in laboratory classes requiring immediate additional quantities.
• Tae Kwon-Do Instructor - Total Hours: 3200
→ Instructed students ages 4-59 in Tae Kwon-Do utilizing studied knowledge of motion through concepts and principles.
→ Motivated and challenged students to help them excel at their own personal goals.
→ Instructed student leadership classes for children to promote motivational attitude, self-confidence, discipline, and esteem.
→ Properly demonstrated self-defense tactics while being technically sound with vocalization.
→ Exercised professional judgement in various situations to ensure requirements were met according to age and rank.
→ Evaluated student performance to determine promotion in rank.
Non-Healthcare Volunteer:
• Accompanist - Total Hours: 50
→ Performed with Sudha Ragunathan, one of India's leading Carnatic performers, in a fundraising concert for the Rumbaugh Goodwin Institute of Cancer Research (RGI) to support its training and drug discovery efforts.
Medical School List:
• Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
• California Health Sciences University College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (Bradenton Campus)
• Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine
• University of Pikeville-Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine
• West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
• William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine
I am new to this community and was curious as to what you guys think my chances are of getting into osteopathic medical school this cycle. I've been having so much anxiety these past few weeks thinking whether or not I actually have a shot this cycle. If you guys think it's not strong enough, please let me know what I should do to improve it over the cycle!
Stats:
• MCAT: 501
• Cumulative GPA: 3.39
• Science GPA: 3.30
• Non-Science GPA: 3.52
Extracurricular Activities:
• Research Assistant (Psychology) - Total Hours: 125
→ Participated in a research study looking at whether a brief recollection intervention will lead to better physical and mental health among individuals above the age of 60.
→ Displayed excellent interpersonal skills while working with a research team to successfully administer experiments.
→ Managed research participants through scheduling, correspondence, paperwork, and task facilitation, maintaining confidentiality throughout.
• Research Assistant (Organic Chemistry) - Total Hours: 400
→ Created a library of compounds (chalcones, bis-chalcones, pyrazolines, and bis-pyrazolines) that bear hybrid biological behavior because of their structural similarity to curcuminoids.
→ Refluxed reactions involving terephthaldehyde and substituted acetophenones.
→ Monitored the progress of reactions by thin-layer chromatography.
→ Characterized products upon recrystallization by melting point, infrared radiation, and nuclear magnetic resonance.
→ Extracted organic compounds from solid-phase samples and prepared them for gas chromatography analysis.
• President of the Scientific Literature Society - Total Hours: 400
→ Created a space and audience for students to carry out research poster presentations, mock interviews, and argumentative debates surrounding current world events with a focus on the scientific field.
Healthcare Experience:
• Shadowing Experience -Total Hours: 140
→ Pediatric Emergency Specialist (M.D.)
→ Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon (M.D.)
→ Interventional Radiologist (M.D.)
→ Mental Health Specialist (M.D.)
→ Ophthalmologist (M.D.)
→ Gastroenterologist (M.D.)
→ Psychiatrist (M.D.)
→ Dermatologist (D.O.)
→ Internist (M.D.)
• Healthcare Volunteer - Total Hours: 1100
→ Communicated the needs of patients to nurses and acted as a liaison for the healthcare team.
→ Transported patients to all areas within the hospital.
→ Cleaned equipment, prepared beds, and restocked lab supplies.
→ Maintained patient medical charts and filed medical record forms.
→ Aided patients with filling up prescription orders and assisted nurses in preparing medication for intravenous treatments.
→ Collaborated with other departments throughout the hospital ensuring teamwork and patient satisfaction.
Non-Healthcare Employment:
• Private Tutor - Total Hours: 3300
→ Developed and implemented comprehensive lesson plans to accommodate specific type of learners.
→ Enhanced lessons through integration of innovative educational technology.
→ Tutored large number of students in topics ranging from Chemistry to English.
• Laboratory Assistant (Organic Chemistry) - Total Hours: 150
→ Leveraged strong planning and time management skills in performing laboratory reconfiguration to accommodate each classes' experimental setup.
→ Demonstrated a high degree of proficiency deciphering independent professors' experimental frameworks, formulations, and methods to produce quality experiments.
→ Highly adept in creating dilutions utilizing irregular quantities of solute/solvent in laboratory classes requiring immediate additional quantities.
• Tae Kwon-Do Instructor - Total Hours: 3200
→ Instructed students ages 4-59 in Tae Kwon-Do utilizing studied knowledge of motion through concepts and principles.
→ Motivated and challenged students to help them excel at their own personal goals.
→ Instructed student leadership classes for children to promote motivational attitude, self-confidence, discipline, and esteem.
→ Properly demonstrated self-defense tactics while being technically sound with vocalization.
→ Exercised professional judgement in various situations to ensure requirements were met according to age and rank.
→ Evaluated student performance to determine promotion in rank.
Non-Healthcare Volunteer:
• Accompanist - Total Hours: 50
→ Performed with Sudha Ragunathan, one of India's leading Carnatic performers, in a fundraising concert for the Rumbaugh Goodwin Institute of Cancer Research (RGI) to support its training and drug discovery efforts.
Medical School List:
• Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
• California Health Sciences University College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (Bradenton Campus)
• Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine
• University of Pikeville-Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine
• West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
• William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine
