Brief Profile:
-Newspaper Editor - Freshman year and ongoing -Director Exhibit Programmer for Art Gallery -Three years and ongoing -Founder non profit for the Arts and Education -Two years and ongoing -Abstracts - two clinical medical abstracts presented at international meeting. -Poster - one, clinical medicine. Presented at international meeting. -Medical, Surgical Shadowing - non stop since high school - too many hours to count! Included summers freshman, sophomore, junior years - 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, one month each summer. -Volunteering Community Clinic- one year, once a week. -Spent a semester overseas studying. -Ongoing clinical research at my undergrad institution - Junior
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 06/06/2010
Undergraduate college: Ivy League
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 523
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 132,
CARS 132
Overall GPA: 4.00
Science GPA: 4.00
Summary of Application Experience
- Took MCAT end of sophomore year- Thrilled this is over!! - Transcripts sent to AMCAS 5/24. Received two days later. - Submitted Primary AMCAS 6/7. Verified 7/1 - Committee Letter sent by school 8/24. AMCAS updated 8/26. - Complete at first school 8/25 - Cornell - Complete at all others schools by 9/4 - First interview invite Dartmouth!! 9/7 - First interview Hopkins! late september. - Received rest of interviews invites september and october. I had most of my interviews scheduled for the month of october. I was going crazy with school work and traveling. I left only a couple for november and december. - First rejection - Georgetown ( I found out by status page change, like three months after I had been rejected !) - First acceptance Northwestern! first week of november, followed by Hopkins a week later!! - After Hopkins acceptance, I withdrew from all the remaining schools where I had not interviewed at yet, with the exception of Stanford and Columbia. - 3/14 and 3/15 - AWESOME NEWS - UPenn and Yale acceptances!! - 3/18 to 3/ 25 - Full scholarships to NYU, Pritzker and Northwestern $$$$$ !!!!!
I am going for a Second Look at Hopkins, U Penn and Yale and I am declining the rest of my acceptances. I can\'t believe how fortunate I have been this cycle and this experience has been very humbling to me. Let\'s see what happens in May! The money from the other schools is making this decision very difficult as well!!
Well, it is time to make a decision. I was pretty sure I was going to matriculate at Hopkins and i almost cancelled my Penn Preview visit at the last minute, but..... I loved Penn! I really felt right at home. It is hard for me to pinpoint what it was but I loved the vibe and my gut feeling kept telling me \"this is it\". I can honestly say that I became more excited than ever about attending med school. I feel that I have a lot more in common with the student body and with the university as a whole. I am interested in pursuing other interests outside of medicine and Penn would make it very easy for me. I got a sense of isolation at Hopkins that I did not feel at Penn.
I would recommend everyone to start this process with an open mind and to attend as many interviews as financially possible. At the end, try to go to as many Second Look events as well, because you really never know how things may turn out. The more you are \"physically\" in a school, the more you will learn about it.
Good luck to all of you!!!!!!!!!!
Applied, Withdrew
Duke University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
I have never really liked Duke. The secondary and those weird essays turned me off even more. I should have saved my AMCAS money!
Summary of Experience:
My secondary essay had nothing to do with the school! I did not spend any time on this application. I found a trend where students from my school usually get rejected here.
Summary of Experience:
Probably my worst interview. I did not feel a good rapport with my faculty interviewer. He was somewhat aloof and detached. I was a bit nervous also. The school is located in a great part of Manhattan. Be ready for lots of noise, people always rushing, etc. I am not quiet sure if it would be a good place to \"study\". I think I would feel like I am missing all the fun stuff NYC has to offer.
Summary of Experience:
Happiest students I met. But no matter what they say, there are not enough patients in Palo Alto to get a great clinical experience. Plus Second Look is at the same time as Hopkins...
Summary of Experience:
I liked the students there but did not get a good vibe from the group that was interviewing with me. Awesome hospital and students get a lot of funding for non academic activities. Overall, I think it would be a good fit for me.
Summary of Experience:
I thought I wanted to live in NYC, but I think I would rather go there for residency (to work and party, not to study!) Washington Heights suck and the Columbia students seemed a little too intense for my taste. This will be one of my last choices.
Summary of Experience:
I would rather go to Northwestern anytime. Pritzker gives me the feeling that I am joining the Peace Corps, and I do not want to do that until after my residency. Plus I do not like the neighborhood. I thought the students were a little too nerdy.
Summary of Experience:
Loved Dartmouth! If it wasn\'t so isolated I would not hesitate to come here at all. Everyone is so professional but personable at the same time! They are looking for really outgoing and \"happy\" students. Make sure you interact well with everyone during interview day. Let\'s see what happens with the rest of the schools.
Summary of Experience:
WOW! Second acceptance!! This was my first interview! I freaked out when I got the phone call. The opportunities and the people are amazing! The brand new student building is quiet impressive and so is the hospital. The school has the highest faculty student ratio (after Harvard) and the colleges system allows you to have close faculty supervision throughout the four years.
I had the most fun at Second Look and I am pretty sure i will be matriculating here. The only downside is the neighborhood around the school and the fact that the school stands \"alone\". I found some of the staff at the school a little rude and \"short\", but not the faculty.
Summary of Experience:
I liked the humanistic approach to medicine. The faculty seems very approachable and interested in teaching. I would be happy attending this school. The facilities are nice but do not compare to some of the other power houses I visited. A lot of the students seem to come from the midwest and very few from the NE. The school is in one of Chicago\'s suburbs.
