Brief Profile:
I transferred from Rose to UT after fall quarter junior year. My GPA reflects a so-so freshman year as an engineering major (including some B's, a C, and a D) followed by 4.0's the rest of the way (once I decided to go pre-med). So, I had a strong upward trend that I explained in my PS.
Work/Clinical: 1.5 yrs at hospital (research and other non-clinical stuff), Kaplan MCAT teacher, other jobs, 200+ hours shadowing
Research: summer NSF-REU in ecology (presented at a conference, no pubs), 1 pub pending from hospital job
Community service: ESL tutor, free clinic volunteer, week-long work trip to New Orleans
Other: 3 seasons Div III soccer at Rose (captain, some school records), PBK and Top Graduate at UT, student pilot, gap year spent working for a Katrina recovery nonprofit in New Orleans
I hope this profile is useful in some way. I'm very excited about my decision. Good luck to everybody applying, and feel free to leave comments if you have any questions!
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2007
Undergraduate college: University of Tennessee
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Institution: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Area of Study: Engineering/Technology
Degree Obtained: none
Total MCAT SCORE: 519
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 130,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.86
Science GPA: 3.82
Summary of Application Experience
*Vandy only sends secondaries to people who get interviews, so I found out about my interview before I got the secondary.
6/16 AMCAS submitted (transcripts already received) 6/20 AMCAS verified 7/30 My first interview invite! 10/17 First acceptance!! I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up!!! 10/30 Four waitlists in one week. yuck. 1/31 I'm in at my third choice and #1 or #2 would just be icing on the cake. Life is good. :) 3/3 I axed everyone but UT and Einstein and am just waiting on Harvard and Emory. Pretty excited about Einstein if those two don't work out. 3/12 So I was invited to interview for one of five $80K scholarships from UT-Memphis. After a whole lot of consideration, I withdrew my acceptance. I'll probably regret this at some point, but as my career goals turn more towards research and public health work, I think I need a med school environment more conducive to that type of thing. There was no guarantee I would have gotten the scholarship anyway, and its renewal was contingent on a certain GPA, which I don't want to have to worry about. Right? Right... 3/25 Waitlisted at Emory and rejected by Harvard. I'm going to Einstein! 9/8 Update: I love Einstein!! Leave comments if you have any questions about the school.
Total cost (including $1500 Kaplan course, MCAT, apps, suit, travel, everything): a little over $5K
Applied, Withdrew
Brown University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
didn't realize how few spots there were for non-Brown students. it was low on my list anyway.
User #8083 took the old MCAT and scored a 36 which is in the 97th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 519 on the updated scale which is in the 97th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #8083’s section scores as follows:
User #8083 scored a 12 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 130 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #8083 scored a 13 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 130 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #8083 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.
