Brief Profile:
GPA was significantly affected by a C, B, and B in high school dual enrollment community college credits for math classes. Otherwise, my GPA is almost all A\'s. My AO GPA is above 3.9, actually all of my GPA\'s excluding high school are above 3.9. Moral of the story, don\'t take dual enrollment in high school and do poorly (stupid high school).
My extracurriculars include a lot of the normal stuff (volunteer work, shadowing, premed club, research, etc.). I also have been a TA for a year and a half. I also did humanitarian work in Africa establishing a solar cooker project, which then resulted in my being the founding member of a non-profit group doing \"fun stuff\" in Africa. Trust me, its cool and you should be jealous... :)
More detailed profile information will be added later with all my information given at the end of this cycle.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2009
Undergraduate college: Arizona State University
Institution: Primary Major: Biochemistry (B.S.)
Area of Study: Biological/Life Sciences
Institution: Second Major: Psychology (B.S.)
Area of Study: Psychology/Social Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 517
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 129,
C/P 132,
CARS 127
Overall GPA: 3.82
Science GPA: 3.78
Summary of Application Experience
Costs: At some point I will check my bank statements and add it all up, but let\'s just say a lot for now $1799 - Kaplan Course $210 - MCAT $25 - Various Transcripts $400ish - Trip to visit Mayo (5-29) $470 - Primary application to AMCAS $65 - WashU secondary fee $100 - Mayo Fee Request $85 - Pitt Secondary Fee $60 - Iowa fee $100 - SLU fee $56 - Wisconsin fee $95 - Brown fee $55 - Wake Forest fee $85 - Case Western fee $100 - University of Arizona fee $154 - flight to Pitt (one-way) $0 - flight from Pitt to MSP to home (frequent flier miles)
Timeline (for timeline by school scroll down): 05/20/08 - Started my Kaplan prep class 08/05/08 - Took MCAT, I predict about a 13PS, 10VR, 11BS based on practice exams 09/09/08 - Scores released! They usually come out a day early, but not for me, they came out as scheduled. 35 makes me very happy, even though BS should have been better. 04/13/09 - Started crafting personal statement (first draft sucks) 05/05/09 - Started filling out AMCAS (still need activities, transcripts, and PS) 05/07/09 - Transcript request from MCC 05/12/09 - MCC transcript received 05/15/09 - Rio Salado transcript requested 05/17/09 - Arizona State transcript requested 05/26/09 - last two transcripts received 06/02/09 - submitted application 06/08/09 - AMCAS complete 06/15/09 - Started WashU secondary 06/17/09 - Submitted WashU secondary (now AMCAS needs to send my primary to them) 06/26/09 - Mayo Fee Request 06/29/09 - Pitt Secondary Received 06/29/09 - \'Complete\' status at WashU 07/02/09 - Submitted Pitt secondary (just after midnight) 07/02/09 - Mayo LOR request! In my email minutes after submitting Pitt Secondary 07/08/09 - Brown Secondary Received 07/08/09 - Wisconsin Secondary Received 07/08/09 - Iowa Secondary Received 07/09/09 - SLU secondary received 07/09/09 - SLU secondary complete 07/10/09 - Iowa Secondary Complete 07/11/09 - Wisconsin Secondary complete 07/16/09 - Case Western Secondary receieved 07/17/09 - Mayo interview invite!!! I absolutely cannot believe I actually have an interview at Mayo. Just making it this far makes me really happy. 07/18/09 - Pitt interview invite!!! The Saturday morning right after my Mayo invite. What a wonderful couple of hours. 07/20/09 - Brown secondary submitted (finally!) 07/22/09 - Wake Forest secondary received 07/23/09 - Wake Forest secondary submitted 07/24/09 - UofA secondary received 07/25/09 - Case Western secondary submitted 07/27/09 - UofA secondary submitted 07/27/09 - Complete at Case Western 07/28/09 - UofA fee paid 08/05/09 - Case Western interview invite! 08/21/09 - U of A interview invites for both campuses 09/09/09 - interviewed at Pitt 09/11/09 - interviewed at Mayo 09/14/09 - interviewed at UA-Phoenix 09/20/09 - Rejected from Wisconsin 09/24/09 - Iowa interview invite! 10/05/09 - interviewed at Case Western 10/20/09 - Hold status at Mayo 10/21/09 - Hold status at Case Western 10/23/09 - interview at Iowa 10/27/09 - interview at UA-Tucson 11/04/09 - Waitlisted at Pitt 11/18/09 - SLU interview invite 12/01/09 - Iowa acceptance!!! 12/01/09 - Withdrawing from WashU, Brown, and Minnesota 12/04/09 - UA-Phoenix acceptance!!! 12/04/09 - UA-Tucson acceptance!!! What a great week! 12/09/09 - Withdrew from UA-Phoenix: had 2 weeks to decide between Tucson and Phoenix, I made my decision 12/16/09 - Withdrawing from Wake Forest - Don\'t know why I didn\'t do this earlier, but I am officially out of money now 01/04/10 - Accepted to SLU!!! First of the new year. C\'mon other schools keep \'em coming! 01/21/10 - Declined offer of acceptance from SLU 01/26/10 - Declined offer of admission to Iowa 03/01/10 - Rejected from Mayo
Brown University: 07/08/09 - Secondary Received 07/20/09 - Secondary Submitted (I found it challenging) 12/01/09 - Withdrew
Case Western: 07/16/09 - Secondary Received 07/25/09 - secondary submitted (I took my time doing this one) 07/27/09 - Complete status 08/05/09 - interview invite 10/05/09 - interview 10/21/09 - hold status
Mayo Medical School: 06/26/09 - Fee Request (received and paid) 07/02/09 - LOR Request 07/09/09 - Complete (LORs confirmed received) 07/17/09 - Mayo interview invite!!! I absolutely cannot believe I actually have an interview at Mayo. Just making it this far makes me really happy. 09/11/09 - Interview 10/20/09 - hold status 03/01/10 - rejected after waiting FOREVER
Saint Louis University: 07/09/09 - SLU secondary received 07/09/09 - SLU secondary complete (2 hour turn around!) 11/20/09 - SLU interview invite (yes, OVER 4 months of waiting) 12/14/09 - SLU interview 01/04/10 - Accepted! First of the new year! 01/21/10 - Withdrew
University of Arizona: 07/24/09 - Secondary received 07/27/09 - Secondary submitted 07/28/09 - fee mailed in 08/21/09 - interview invites 09/14/09 - Phoenix campus interview 10/27/09 - Tucson campus interview 12/04/09 - Accepted to Phoenix!!!! 12/04/09 - Accepted to Tucson 45 minutes after Phoenix!!! 12/09/09 - Withdrew from Phoenix
University of Iowa: 07/08/09 - Secondary Received 07/08/09 - Fee paid 07/10/09 - Secondary Complete (about 48 hour turn around) 09/24/09 - interview invite! 12/01/09 - ACCEPTED!!! First one! 01/26/10 - withdrew
University of Minnesota (Twin Cities): 08/18/09 - Secondary received 12/01/09 - Withdrawing
University of Pittsburgh: 06/29/09 - Secondary Received 07/02/09 - Secondary Submitted (less than 48 hour turn around) 07/18/09 - Interview invite!!! The Saturday morning right after my Mayo invite. What a wonderful couple of hours. 09/09/09 - Interview 11/04/09 - Waitlisted...damn
University of Wisconsin: 07/08/09 - Secondary Received 07/11/09 - Wisconsin Secondary complete 09/20/09 - Rejected
Wake Forest: 07/22/09 - Secondary received 07/23/09 - Secondary submitted 08/??/09 - complete 12/16/09 - Withdrawing - I am out of money after my interview at SLU
Washington University in St. Louis: 06/15/09 - Secondary Received (actually it became available this day) 06/17/09 - Secondary Submitted and fee paid 06/29/09 - Complete 12/01/09 - Withdrawing
Applied, Withdrew
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: 06/01/2009
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Finally decided to withdraw from here. Glad I did not take the time to fill out their secondary.
They took forever to get their secondaries out, so I am not sure I am going to do it. I am busy with my classes now and not in the mood to do secondaries any more.
Summary of Experience:
No love. The rejection letter was nice though; they said its not me its them. Apparently I am not qualified enough as an OOS applicant.
Summary of Experience:
4/12 officially on the alternate list here. I don\'t think I will end up going, but it is nice to know they thought enough of me to keep me as an alternate.
Hold statuses suck. This makes two in two days for me. Apparently my interviews did not go as well as I had thought they did.
Summary of Experience:
3/1 Well the dream is dead now. Mayo is a great school, and I would have loved to go here. By the end though, I was realizing that my fit here was probably only slightly better than my fit at my state school. Now I don\'t have a decision to make, and no more waiting.
10/20 Hold status. As happy as I was to get an interview here is as disappointed as I am to be put on hold. I still have a shot here though...
Summary of Experience:
3/1 After the Mayo rejection, this school becomes my absolute top choice over any other school.
12/4 Accepted!!!
I really enjoyed the Tucson campus. For like $80,000 less than any of my other schools (excluding Mayo), UA seems like a pretty smart option for me. Plus the location and curriculum are a great fit for me.
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew. This was a tough decision, but cost and distance from family were big factors. Plus, I really like my state school, which just seems like a better fit.
1/4 - Accepted!!! I am worried that SLU might be too expensive for me though...
11/20 - After four months of waiting they are giving me an interview! I\'m really excited about this one. Plus, it is my first interview that will NOT be during the middle of the semester, so less stress.
Summary of Experience:
1/26 Withdrew. Same basic reasons for withdrawing from here as for withdrawing from SLU. It was hard to break up with them since they were my first lover...er school that accepted me.
12/1 first acceptance!!!! holy crap this makes me sooooooo happy!!!
lrkoehle took the old MCAT and scored a which is in the percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a on the updated scale which is in the percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted lrkoehle’s section scores as follows:
lrkoehle scored a 11 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
lrkoehle scored a 14 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 132 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
lrkoehle scored a 10 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
