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  • LAChemistry

  • Application cycles: 06/20/2014
  • Demographics: Male, 38, Caucasian
  • Home state: California
  • Last Active: 11/01/2014
  • Brief Profile: Early GPA: 1.91 over 85 units
    Late GPA: 3.63 over 195 units
    --> 3.57 BCPM over 114 units
    --> 3.70 AO over 72 units

    Graduate GPA: 3.78 BCPM only

    Cumulative GPA without graduate coursework: 3.08

    Clinical Activities:
    -2 years volunteering at hospitals
    -3.5 years employed as a certified nursing assistant

    Research Experience:
    -Master's thesis in pharmacology with expected publication as first author
    -Lab rotations in pharmacology

    Community Experience:
    -I tutor academically underserved community college students in science and mathematics

    Teamwork and Leadership Activities:
    -Advisor to UCD Provost on selection of Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies
    -Founder/president of premedical club
    -Liason to AMSA premedical club

    Employment:
    -I worked in the trades (e.g. construction, labor, service) for 4 years prior to pursuing medical school

    Personal Notes:
    -I started out attending various community colleges and working in the trades. There, I accrued 85 units at a 1.91 GPA. After beginning a job in patient care, I found passion for working with people and decided to pursue medicine. Since then, I've earned 195 units at a 3.63 GPA. My long term goal is to practice rurally or in an underserved suburban area.
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 06/20/2014

    • Undergraduate college: University of California, Los Angeles
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Physical Sciences
    • Institution: University of California, Davis
    • Area of Study: Biological/Life Sciences
    • Degree Obtained: Pharmacology and Toxicology M.S.
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 509
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 127, C/P 129, CARS 124  
    • Overall GPA: 3.08
    • Science GPA: 3.28

    Summary of Application Experience

    7/11/14: AMCAS verifies that my primary is complete

    7/11/14: Start receiving secondaries

    7/18/14: 21 secondaries done within 7 days; so far, so good. Hoping for more

    8/1/14: Complete at 34 medical schools. Let the waiting begin

    8/13/14: First interview invite

    Applied

    University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, San Diego

    Applied, Rejected

    University of Washington
    Wayne State University

    Application Complete

    Creighton University
    Eastern Virginia Medical School
    Jefferson Medical College
    Loyola University Chicago
    Medical College of Wisconsin
    New York Medical College
    Oregon Health & Science University
    Rosalind Franklin University
    Rush Medical College
    Saint Louis University
    SUNY Stony Brook
    Texas A & M University
    Texas Tech University
    Texas Tech University, El Paso
    University of Arizona
    University of Cincinnati
    University of Colorado
    University of Illinois
    University of Iowa
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    University of Texas, Galveston
    University of Texas, Houston
    Long School of Medicine - University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio
    University of Texas, Southwestern
    Virginia Commonwealth University
    Hofstra University
    University of Toledo
    Michigan State University
    New York College of New York Tech.

    Application Complete, Rejected

    Oakland University
    University of Arizona - Phoenix
    University of California, Irvine
    University of Nebraska

    Invited for Interview

    Western University of Health Sciences
    Arizona College of Mid. University

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