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  • User #8878

  • Application cycles: 2007
  • Demographics: Female, Caucasian
  • Home state: Florida
  • Brief Profile: Research: 5 years, various topics and employers
    Shadowing: 120 hours in Ecuador
    Internships: hospital, health department, health policy, red cross
    Leadership: clubs in college, theater
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2007

    • Undergraduate college: Rice University
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Psychology/Social Sciences
    • Institution: University of South Florida
    • Area of Study: Computing and Information Science
    • Degree Obtained: MPH
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 516
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 129, C/P 128, CARS 130  
    • Overall GPA: 3.05
    • Science GPA: 3.54

    Summary of Application Experience

    my lifesaver for organizing secondaries: www.mdappr.com



    Timeline!

    8.15 AMCAS submitted
    8.16 UK, GWU, BU secondaries received
    8.20 UAB secondary received
    8.21 USF secondary received

    9.7 AMCAS verified
    9.10 UF, Jefferson secondaries received
    9.11 FSU, Temple secondaries received
    9.14 UVA, Georgetown secondaries received
    9.18 complete at GWU, received Tufts secondary
    9.19 Drexel secondary received
    9.20 Emory secondary received
    9.21 complete at UVA
    9.24 complete at FSU, Emory
    9.25 complete at UK, Wake Forest secondary received
    9.28 complete at Tufts
    9.30 complete at Jefferson, UMiami (I finally ended up calling...)

    10.2 complete at Temple
    10.3 complete at Georgetown, Drexel; Dartmouth secondary received
    10.4 interview offer at UK!
    10.5 rejection from BU (boo)
    10.15 complete at Dartmouth
    10.16 UF writes to say they don't believe I'm a FL resident...
    10.22 complete at USF
    10.23 on hold at FSU...
    10.26 vanderbilt pre-secondary rejection (no shock here...)
    10.29 GWU rejection (BOO TO YOU!)

    11.5 Georgetown rejection....
    11.20 finally assigned an interview date at UK!!!
    11.28 bought my suit over thanksgiving...

    starting to get a little nervous. should i have applied DO too?


    12.15 interviewed at UK
    12.19 called to check and found out i'm on hold...so sad! I LOVED UK! I'm going to write crazy letter of intents until they admit me.

    dec-january: slew of rejections (Dartmouth, UCSF, UVA)
    1.13 pre-interview hold at Drexel
    1.13 in an interview pool at Wake Forest (yay!)...just not one they're likely to get to before interview season ends (boo!)...
    1.16 invited to interview at USF! YAAAAAAYYYYY!!
    1.18 Temple rejection.
    1.28 UF rejection. BOO to my 1st in-state rejection.

    2.4 Interview at USF. AMAZING. I was a skeptic, but I believe. USF is awesome. Also, one of the other interviewees totally fell asleep during a presentation. FUNNIEST THING EVER! (unless it was you, then I'm sorry I posted it...it was really funny though. And I don't think they noticed)

    Applied, Rejected

    University of California, San Francisco
    Vanderbilt University

    Application Complete

    Florida State University

    Application Complete, Rejected

    University of Virginia
    Wake Forest University
    University of Miami
    University of Florida
    Tufts University
    University of Alabama
    Drexel University
    Emory University
    George Washington University
    Georgetown University
    Dartmouth College
    Jefferson Medical College
    Boston University
    Temple University

    Attended Interview

    University of Kentucky

    Accepted

    University of South Florida

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