Brief Profile:
- 6500+ Clinical Hours (Paid Employment and Graduate Clinical Rotations) - Publication in the American Journal of Bioethics - Forthcoming textbook on critical care nephrology (first or second author for nine chapters) - Delivered Grand Rounds in 2002 on the Ethics of Involuntary Commitment - Teaching Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, General Chemistry Labs, and Technical Writing since 2002 - Principal investigator for two studies in critical care medicine (medical decision-making; comorbid affective disorders) - Forthcoming ethics articles on improving organ viability for cardiopulmonary transplant and on issues in cross cultural research ethics - Doctoral dissertation on the intersection of psychiatry, psychology, and medical ethics - BCPM average is on the low side, but in my own defense, while I was taking my core courses, I was also working 40+ hours a week clinically, teaching three courses, and researching/writing my doctoral dissertation. Once all of that settled down, the QPA went up.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2006
Undergraduate college: Georgetown University
Undergraduate Area of study: Foreign Language/International Studies
Institution: Duquesne University
Area of Study: History/Humanities
Degree Obtained: MA/PhD
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Area of Study: Psychology/Social Sciences
Degree Obtained: BS
Total MCAT SCORE: 513
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 127,
C/P 128,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.34
Science GPA: 2.92
Summary of Application Experience
August MCAT Recalculated the cumulative QPA over all credits (undergraduate (3.05), post-bacc (3.24), and graduate(3.85)).
03/06/07 - Waitlisted at Pitt. This really sucks. I can write textbooks for them, conduct research for them, get them funding for other studies, and have clinical experience out the ass, but that's not good enough.
Applied, Rejected
West Virginia University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
No love from WVU - 11/04/06.
User #6763 took the old MCAT and scored a 32 which is in the 88th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 513 on the updated scale which is in the 89th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #6763’s section scores as follows:
User #6763 scored a 10 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #6763 scored a 11 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 128 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #6763 scored a 11 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
