Brief Profile:
- Full time HS teacher (4 years) - Head Coach - Football (2 years) - Head Coach - Soccer (3 years) - Medical Shadowing (6 months, about 200 hours) - Research (200 hour senior project on the biochemistry of citrate synthase in monarch butterflies; poster at regional symposium) - Program Director (6 summers) - Boy Scout Camp - Asst. Manager at restaurant during college (2.5 years) - Fraternity (4 terms of executive council) - Resident Adviser (1 year) - Supplemental Instructor (2 years of college tutoring) - Church volunteer (2 years; young-married coordinator, youth counselor)
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2009
Undergraduate college: Cal Poly, SLO
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 516
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 128,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.64
Science GPA: 3.55
Summary of Application Experience
4/4/09 - MCAT 5/5/09 - Received MCAT scores; lower than my recent averages, but content to not retake 6/23/09 - Submitted AMCAS; STUPID me didn\'t realize you could submit before letters of recommendation were received. 6/24/09 - Submitted TDMSAS 7/3/09 to 7/16/09 - On vacation traveling South and East Coast 7/10/09 - AMCAS verified 7/15/09 - Visited Ithaca for first time while traveling to see family. What a beautiful campus! Too bad there\'s no medical school there :( 8/1 to 8/6 - Backpacking along PCT near Mt. Whitney. (Nice break from secondaries.) 8/28 - Interview at UT Houston... fabulous students, facilities.
Financial Costs $2500 Fees for missing OCHEM and CALC courses $600 MCAT prep materials $225 MCAT $180 TDMSAS primary $682 AMCAS primary $278 Flight to Houston $100 Interview expenses in Houston $272 Flight to Syracuse $150 Interview Expenses in Syracuse $330 Flight to Penn State $200 Interview Expenses at Penn State
Secondary Fees $125 George Washington $100 SUNY Upstate $100 Saint Louis University $70 UC Davis $70 UC Irvine $75 Loma Linda $85 University of Michigan $80 VCU $70 Penn State $0 UTSW (So very thankful!) $55 Wake Forest $70 UCLA $90 USC $100 EVMS $70 University of Alabama $100 Emory
Applied, Rejected
University of California, San Diego
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: 06/22/2009
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Not even a secondary? Really?
User #17676 took the old MCAT and scored a 34 which is in the 94th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 516 on the updated scale which is in the 94th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #17676’s section scores as follows:
User #17676 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 #17676 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 #17676 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.
