Brief Profile:
I enlisted in the Air Force at 19 and deployed to the Air Force Theatre Hospital, Iraq as a Aeromedical Evacuation Technician in 2008. I\'m still enlisted, serving as a reservist.
I did two full-time internships as patient educator, appointment setter, medical records filing, etc. at Planned Parenthood clinic in NY and GA, approx. 3 months each, one ongoing.
I worked as a phlebotomist sophomore and part of junior year of college. Got pretty good at the bad-vein-trifecta patients: old, fat, and sick.
Doubled in Biology and Women\'s Gender Studies, and wrote an honors thesis about intersections between feminism and enlisted military women\'s service.
Taking some graduate courses at GSU. For funsies! (update 1/10: apparently you can get a 4.3 at GSU. Who knew? I do now, apparently.)
I played rugby for a year in college, but I sucked at it.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2009
Undergraduate college: Dartmouth College
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Institution: Community College of the Air Force
Area of Study: Nursing/Pharmacy/Medical Technology
Degree Obtained: AS
Total MCAT SCORE: 516
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 127,
C/P 130,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.20
Science GPA: 2.90
Summary of Application Experience
7/10: Applying to freaking everywhere.
7/17: Ugh, secondaries. I got a job, though, so that\'s good.
8/1: My finals are over. Whew. BU, Yale, Tufts, and NYMC supplementaries are all complete EXCEPT I hadn\'t realized that a letter from a graduate program professor was REQUIRED, despite my non-degree status and general laxity. Damn. Hopefully I\'ll hear back from my Virology professor soon so I can add her name and submit them.
USUHS stalled, since I need a conditional release from the AFR, and I can\'t get ahold of anyone at ARPC. Le sigh. ILU, bureaucracy.
Dartmouth supplementary sent off. What a laid back application! It fit so well with my experience of the D; I hope a lot of that carries over to DMS. From some of my friends\' experiences, it does, which is delightful.
George Washington sent off. I really appreciate that they waive the fee for recently-active military personnel. My credit card and I love you, GW!
8/3: Yale, NYMC, Tufts sent off since I heard from my professor. BU wants it countersigned by a thesis advisor, which I do not have, since I\'m a schlub and not in the master\'s program. We\'ll see if it will do. Go more secondaries; I appreciate UCSF\'s screening, since I do not appreciate the app fees.
8/5: BU sent off. Headed to military duty tonight; don\'t know if I\'ll get to all of the secondaries this weekend. I\'ll keep my fingers crossed that there will not be any tent-building or chemical drills and I can write flattering essays instead.
1/28: Man, I was so discouraged by all of this crap, especially since Jesse started getting his law school acceptances several weeks ago (plus some full scholarship offers, the jerk). But now that I\'m definitely going somewhere, I can just be impatient to hear from the last 8 (10 with the Morehouse hold and the Mercer waitlist, which I can\'t get to display since they\'re pre-interview) instead of impatient and despair-ful. Jesse\'s in at Northwestern, Emory and GW and has a full ride to BOTH Drexel and Cardozo (Yeshiva), though he hasn\'t heard from UPenn, Columbia, Yale or NYU yet. Though I have to say, if we\'ve got to be in separate cities, I\'d rather be in Charleston with my BFF Traci and living with my beloved grandmother and NO FREAKING SNOW. So we could go anywhere if I get in anywhere else, but I really did like MUSC a lot. If only we could transplant Yale from stupid New Haven to Charleston; it\'d be better for everyone, really.
Applied, Rejected
University of California, San Francisco
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: 07/09/2009
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Thanks for not taking my money needlessly, UCSF!
Summary of Experience:
What a whirlwind romance we\'ve had, MUSC: applied to accepted in less than 60 days. We\'ll see if anyone likes me as much as you do, though you\'ll always be my high-school boyfriend. (Which one sometimes marries? This analogy is getting strained.)
User #17835 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 #17835’s section scores as follows:
User #17835 scored a 10 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #17835 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 #17835 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.
