Brief Profile:
Research: 2 summers spent at school in basic science research Year-long senior honors thesis project Currently working as a clinical research coordinator in a hospital (will work for a total of 2 years before med school)
Clinical: Work as clinical research coordinator mentioned above Volunteer EMT for one summer Shadowing: ~ 50 hours In-hospital volunteering: Just beginning but will complete ~100 hours by interview time
Extracurriculars: 4 year varsity athlete - All-American and Academic All-American Tutor in both biology and orgo for 3 years Tour Guide Mentor to local at-risk youth
Awards: PBK (junior election), many athletic awards (all conference, all region, all american, was mentioned in Sports Illustrated)
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 06/20/2011
Undergraduate college: Top 5 LAC
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 517
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 129,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.90
Science GPA: 3.95
Summary of Application Experience
6/21 - Submitted AMCAS app, awaiting verification 7/12/11 - AMCAS verified 7/14/11 - LORs received by AMCAS
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew after Pitt acceptance - these two schools were similar to me as far as reputation, distance from home, etc. and I couldn\'t bring myself to write the autobiographical essay after I was accepted to Pitt
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew after Hopkins - hadn\'t interviewed yet and couldn\'t bring myself to miss more work and prepare for my first MMI with the acceptances I had in hand
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew Interview day was really nice. I enjoyed all the students, they seemed kind and well rounded. I enjoyed the faculty I met, they seem to really enjoy time spent with students. TDI is pretty awesome, especially with Park\'s arrival. It sounds like they are also incorporating some of this health care delivery research into their curriculum which is super interesting. Hanover is beautiful and it made me nostalgic for rural New England. I am not a fan of rural New England as far as patient population, however and would prefer to be somewhere more urban for better clinical exposure in addition to social reasons. In addition, it seems that they have a heavy emphasis on lecture time and while they are in the process of updating their curriculum, it seems that my class would be a guinea pig year which typically results in some growing pains.
10/17/2011 - First Acceptance!!! Feel honored to be an early admit and elated that I will be going to medical school next year, no matter what happens with the rest of the cycle.
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew Thrilled!! Hopkins is hopkins. Research opportunities abound and clinical training is second to none. I have my concerns about Baltimore and whether the culture fosters the well-rounded multi-faceted community I\'m most interested in. Then gain, these concerns can easily be outweighed by the quality of the education.
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew I really liked this school\'s mission of \"healthcare for all\" and its history of breaking barriers. Thought the campus was very nice, and would love to be in Boston. There seemed to be a general lack of research opportunities, and their focus is mainly on bread and butter clinical stuff.
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew Because this was my first interview experience, I didn\'t have much to compare it to. Overall though, I very much enjoyed my interview day and getting to see all that Pitt Med had to offer. They seem to give students a lot of flexibility to cater the curriculum to personal interests. UPMC is impressive. I got the feeling while I was there that UPitt is VERY research heavy, and my faculty interviewer actually mentioned this as the biggest weakness for the school for those interested in other areas of medicine (me). I had trouble getting a feel for Pittsburgh, but just being there, you can tell there\'s a ton of local pride.
11/15 - ACCEPTED! Very excited, this is my top choice from the acceptances I\'ve received thus far
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew I thought the interview day here was poorly organized. I spent most of the day sitting in the interview lobby waiting for the scheduled interviews. I really like that Rochester focuses on the biopsychosocial model of medicine, and seems to care more about the patient as a whole than their pathology. I\'m not sure how I feel about Western New York.
10/19 - Second acceptance! Thrilled to have options at this point
12/19 - Can\'t see myself here as much as other acceptances in hand
lo215 took the old MCAT and scored a which is in the percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a on the updated scale which is in the percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted lo215’s section scores as follows:
lo215 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.
lo215 scored a 12 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
lo215 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.
