Application Cycle One: 2009

• Undergraduate college: Creighton University
• Undergraduate Area of study: History/Humanities

• Total MCAT SCORE: 523
• MCAT Section Scores: B/B 132, C/P 130, CARS 130   Detailed Breakdown
• Overall GPA: 3.96
• Science GPA: 4.00

Summary of Application Experience

Attending Mayo Medical School!!

Timeline:
6/2: AMCAS Submitted
6/2: AMCAS Verified
6/8: First Secondary Submitted: Yale
6/26: First \'Complete\' Status: Cornell
6/30: First Interview Invite (automatic): Michigan
7/2: Nebraska Interview Invite. Yay for my almost home-state!
7/22: MAYO INTERVIEW INVITE!!! There are no words to describe this day.
8/3: Georgetown Invite!
8/6: Creighton Interview Invite!
8/14: Yale Invite! Was not expecting this one so soon!!
8/20: Realized I applied to a few too many schools. Would love to interview at more places but don\'t have the time to miss from work/school and money to spend: withdrew from NYMC, Temple, and GWU
8/21: Interview invite at Minnesota. Yay for instate love!
8/28: Interviewed at Michigan. All of my expectations were exceeded. Outstanding facility, curriculum, and students. Ann Arbor is also beautiful.
8/31: Interview Invite at Mount Sinai.
9/1: Interview Invite at Boston University.
9/3: Invited to interview at Johns Hopkins. WOW!!!!
9/4: Creighton Interview. Overall positive, friendly experience.
9/9: Interview invites to Emory and NYU. I feel very fortunate and blessed.
9/11: Minnesota Interview. Good experience. I love Minneapolis!
9/14: Mayo Interview. Truly AMAZING! I am convinced there is no medical school like this in the country.
9/15: Columbia Invite. Wow!
9/18: Tufts Interview Invite.
9/21: Yale Interview. I love this campus and the Yale System!
10/2: Hopkins Interview. AMAZING facilities, students, faculty, etc. I was expecting a lot and my expectations were exceeded...this could be my top choice!
10/5: Sinai interview. Wonderful location and friendly people!
10/6: Columbia interview. VERY impressed. The only downside I can think of is the dorm-style housing...but this is only for the first year for most.
10/7: HARVARD INVITE! This cycle is going better than I could\'ve imagined.
10/14: ACCEPTED at Creighton. Sigh of relief...
10/15: Michigan Acceptance. I LOVE this school!
10/15: Withdrew from Georgetown, BU, NYU, and Emory after Mich acceptance.
10/16: PENN interview. Jumping for joy!!
10/20: Harvard Interview: Not a bad experience. Harvard has its pluses and minuses. Heres to hoping...
10/20: Hold at Mayo...boo :(
10/23: Cornell Invite!
10/26: Accepted at U of MN. Home state love!
10/27: Withdrew from Creighton. I will always love my alma mater!
10/28: In at HOPKINS!!!
10/28: In at Mayo...what a great day.
10/29: Realizing how much I love Hopkins/Mayo, I withdraw from Yale and Columbia. Great schools but not perfect fits for me.
11/2: U of MN Withdrawal.
11/4: Sinai acceptance!
11/9: UCSF Secondary Received (after appeal)
11/12: Withdrew from Sinai
12/6: Penn Interview. What a great place!
2/19: Stanford Rejection
3/15: Recently accepted to Penn and rejected from Harvard. Hopefully financial aid helps make this extremely difficult decision a little bit easer! Still...very thankful I am lucky enough to choose btwn such great schools.
3/28: Decision Made: I will be going to Mayo. I am so happy this process is over and still feel to lucky to have had such great choices! Good luck to those of you applying next cycle :)