User #17071
Application cycles: 2009
Demographics: Male, 37, Caucasian
Home state: Nebraska
Last Active: 01/21/2010

Brief Profile: Double major in Math/Bio. Graduating next December w/ BA & BS, hopefully going to spend 5 months in Europe following the cycle.

>5 years research in the same micro-/molecular biology lab, started in High school. Completely lucked out by finding a great lab before I even knew what being a \'scientist\' consisted of.

2 publications, both as a mid-author. 1st author publication submitted to Nature; already reviewed but rejected from Science :/ Hopefully will be in print somewhere by interviews, but doubtful by AMCAS submission. Another paper is going in as 3rd author as soon as we get the current one through the process. Should have ~6 by graduation.

Author on >25 abstracts. First & presenter on ~12, mostly oral presentations at national and international meetings including invitations to Switzerland, Bethesda, MD, & D.C.

Awards at a few meetings for leading presenter or outstanding presentation. Multiple travel grants to various conferences.

Co-author w/ PI on patent for antibiotic w/ novel target & method of action

Standard school awards, scholarships, honors societies, involvement, leadership etc.

Only ~30 hrs clinical volunteering. Shadowed a Pathologist for ~20 hours total. Doing more of both before June!

Some negatives: federal misdemeanor on the record (big woops...), two college alcohol violations (second appears on the transcript b/c 2nd offense). At least I had fun?

// Applications //

Application Cycle One: 2009

Undergraduate college: OOS
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences

Institution: Second Degree
Area of Study: Mathematics

Total MCAT SCORE: 517
MCAT Section Scores: B/B 130, C/P 130, CARS 126
Overall GPA: 3.98
Science GPA: 3.95

Summary of Application Experience

Weakness: clinical. Strength: Research.

MCAT update: That was as hard as I thought it was. My score was a few points under my AAMC averages (~37-38); I muffed something on verbal. But you could not pay me to take it again. Puts me just below average at most MSTPs. Going to take it and run! I added a few more schools because of the slightly lower MCAT.

Applied

Northwestern University

Vanderbilt University

University of California, San Francisco

Applied, Withdrew

University of Iowa

Mayo Medical School

Application Complete, Rejected

University of Michigan

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

University of North Carolina

Invited for Interview

University of Colorado

Case Western Reserve University

Invited for Interview, Withdrew

University of Nebraska

Attended Interview, Rejected

Cornell University

Accepted

Washington University in St. Louis

MD Applicants

User #17071