Undergraduate College: Boston University
Undergraduate Area of Study: Premedical Studies
MCAT: BS 9, PS 7, VR 7, Q
Overall GPA: 2.80
Science GPA: 3.00
Brief Profile:
*Shadowing local surgeon (2 afternoons)
*Painting ER doc's garage (6 weekends)
*Volunteer ER (6000 hours)
*Volunteer Nursing Home (food there sucks lol)
*Big Brother/Big Sisters program (former, the kid made me quit, what a jerk)
*LOR from DOCTOR Ted Bialt (ok not a 'doctor' doctor, but a Ph.D. and he's a pretty big deal)
*LOR from future DOCTOR John Strova (TA at the department for 6 years, almost ready to nail down a dissertation)
*LOR from Terry McCarthy (my mom's sister -- she's got connections with the AdComs...shhhh...)
*Member of Facebook group '1,000,000 strong for the murder of HIV'
*Member of Facebook group 'If 100,000 people join, I will donate $500 to Darfur'
*Snowboarding, white water rafting
*Worked at adventure sports shop for 6 years stocking supplies (just like lab work)
*Cured cancer during an extraction of antioxidants from Apples
*First author ('Make-Up Lab Report: Apple Charts') on a special class of polyphenolics
*In Nature News, lots of other places for curing cancer
AMCAS submitted: 2008
Applied
Summary of Application Experience
Dumb lol j/k
I'm interested in comments or questions.
It's expensive, seriously. But worth it. Now that I have this Nature $$, things are a little easier ;)
Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be a doctor because they help people!! I guess lawyers do 2 sometimes but I'm not very good at arguing I'd rather be helping. But that's just how I was raised.
My advice:
Get all your stuff in early and try to get a 1st author on something. Best if its in Nature or a big mag like that if you cure cancer or aging or Alzheimers disease.
Oh yeah and take as many lab classes on the internet as possible. They're much easier (esp. the practicals). Especially if you do them over the summer. The semesters are shorter and you don't have to learn as much dumb stuff. When are you going to use organic chem again, anyway? When you're saving lives every minute of the day?
