Brief Profile:
National Merit Scholar Worked in one Nursing Home and volunteered in others Have many years experience working in Medical insurance field Lions and Kiwanis clubs Taught adult classes in church Led election campaigns Published a few articles and helped edit a monthly magazine with a circulation of 10,000 City Councilman Presidential Elector Organized local National Day of Prayer observance Was a radio announcer for public radio Did election research Have considerable volunteer experience working with the homeless Shadowed doctors for ~60 hours Presented a poster at Oklahoma Research Day
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 05/31/2010
Undergraduate college: Northeastern State University
Undergraduate Area of study: Engineering/Technology
Total MCAT SCORE: 514
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 125,
C/P 128,
CARS 132
Overall GPA: 3.88
Science GPA: 3.91
Summary of Application Experience
Application is now verified. MCAT scores posted
Applied, Rejected
Vanderbilt University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: 06/23/2010
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 08/29/2010
Summary of Experience:
Received email that they had received my application from AMCAS 7/21 -
Rejected - oh well - with a 33 MCAT it was probably a reach
Summary of Experience:
The committee took a very long time to respond to my secondary, and then did so with a rejection letter.
I believe that my secondary application essays were both somewhat late and poorly written. They responded in kind. I should have either not applied or taken the secondary more seriously
Summary of Experience:
Secondary Requested 7/1, completed seconday 8/20, Interview invite on 9/9, interview on 10/13.
The interview was highly contentious. The interviewers looked for every possible way to attack. They suggested that being a PA would be a better path (they didn\'t say that this was because of my age, since that would be illegal to admit)
OU rejected me on 11/5 without any comment. An extremely polite and humble request for a minimal bit of feedback was summarily dismissed with a comment that \"we can\'t take time to give every applicant a full explanation.\" It took them longer to refuse to tell me why that it would have to simply give a half-sentence like \"you didn\'t have enough clinical experience.\" or \"we wanted more research.\" The reply was so rude that I suspect they want to hide the real reason.
The attitude of the OU admissions committee, in short, stinks. I don\'t believe that this is sour grapes. I waited to write this until I had been accepted somewhere else and was not bitter.
Summary of Experience:
LOR\'s requested 7/2, uploaded on 7/14, confirmed LOR\'s received 7/22, Interview Invite on 8/18, Interview scheduled 10/4.
The interview was very pleasant. Mayo is an incredible school, and anyone who gains acceptance there is very lucky. That will probably not be me. I hold no great hopes here. The admissions office is very responsive.
Summary of Experience:
Secondary Request received 7/1 Completed Secondary 7/21, confirmed received 7/22, Interview Invite 10/10, scheduled for 11/12.
The interview was very friendly. I was then placed on hold, but they told me that the reason for being on hold was because I lacked as much clinical experience as others. Creighton was a very pleasant application experience, but I could only gain acceptance by going on a crash clinical volunteering plan. I will probably withdraw, since OSU is a better financial deal.
Summary of Experience:
I applied late to OSU, but they were helped me get my secondary completed quickly. My interview invite came the day after my application was complete. My file was put on hold after my interview because they needed my most current transcript (very important to them). As soon as they had that, I was accepted at the next meeting of the committee.
This is my hometown and I will attend here. OSU has the best attitude toward applicants that I have ever seen.
EdLongshanks took the old MCAT and scored a 33 which is in the 91th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 514 on the updated scale which is in the 91th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted EdLongshanks’s section scores as follows:
EdLongshanks scored a 9 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 125 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
EdLongshanks 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.
EdLongshanks scored a 13 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 132 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
