Application Cycle One: 07/06/2012
Undergraduate college: Northeast LA
Total MCAT SCORE: 517
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 129,
C/P 129,
CARS 130 Detailed Breakdown
Overall GPA: 3.61
Science GPA: 3.52
Summary of Application Experience
Holding acceptances at Michigan and Vanderbilt and trying to make a very tough decision between the two. Will be attending second look at both. Will be matriculating at Vanderbilt! So excited. Second looks and meeting my future class definitely made the difference.
Applied, Rejected
University of Washington
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/09/2012
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 09/23/2012
Summary of Experience:
Rejected MD-only about 12 hours after submitted my app; rejected MSTP by snail mail a couple weeks after
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Application Complete
Tufts University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: 09/03/2012
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Still hoping to hear from Tufts. I know it's a very small program, though.
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University of California, Los Angeles
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/09/2012
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
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Rosalind Franklin University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/09/2012
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
10/4: entered primary screening; 11/29: passed primary screening
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Columbia University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/10/2012
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
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Application Complete, Rejected
University of California, San Francisco
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: 08/28/2012
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 12/09/2012
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Cornell University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/03/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/04/2012
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 10/08/2012
Summary of Experience:
Rejected MSTP by email; declined to enter MD-only pool
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University of Pennsylvania
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/03/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/11/2012
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 01/29/2013
Summary of Experience:
On hold right now.
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Harvard University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/06/2012
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 03/06/2013
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Baylor College
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/09/2012
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 01/21/2013
Summary of Experience:
On hold.
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University of Southern California
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/09/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/09/2012
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 03/21/2013
Summary of Experience:
finally heard back 6 months later
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Johns Hopkins University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/09/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/12/2012
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 12/02/2012
Summary of Experience:
Received MSTP/MD rejection letter 1/1/2013, dated 12/3/2012.
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Yale University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/10/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/10/2012
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 03/12/2013
Summary of Experience:
Moved to MD-only 9/18 (email)
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University of Chicago
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/10/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/11/2012
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 01/29/2013
Summary of Experience:
on hold for MD/MSTP
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Duke University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/13/2012
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 01/03/2013
Summary of Experience:
R: MSTP, moved to MD-only 11/1
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Invited for Interview, Withdrew
Georgetown University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/09/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/12/2012
Interview Invite: 01/24/2013
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
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Dartmouth College
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/11/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/13/2012
Interview Invite: 11/14/2012
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Breaks my heart to withdraw and was a very difficult decision, but realized that I don't think I want to live in Hanover for 7-8 more years and I want a bit of a more structured, developed program with more than just 3-5 students per year. -- interview scheduled for Feb
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University of Oklahoma
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: 09/19/2012
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: 12/10/2012
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Interview scheduled for early January, MD-only (forgot to send in MD/PhD app...); regretfully withdrew 1/4, would attend fully-funded MD/PhD over expensive OOS MD-only here
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Attended Interview, Rejected
University of Pittsburgh
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/03/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/23/2012
Interview Invite: 10/02/2012
Interview Attended: 11/15/2012
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 11/25/2012
Summary of Experience:
meh. the feeling was mutual.
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Stanford University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/06/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/07/2012
Interview Invite: 11/17/2012
Interview Attended: 02/05/2013
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 02/24/2013
Summary of Experience:
First time ever in California - school is very different from the east coast schools I'm used to, but I liked it here, students seem happy. Supposed to hear back by end of Feb.
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University of Colorado
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/06/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/09/2012
Interview Invite: 12/17/2012
Interview Attended: 01/17/2013
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 03/12/2013
Summary of Experience:
Rejected, lol. One of my top choices going into this cycle. I think being out of region is going to be a huge disadvantage though; YAYYYY Interview Invite!!! Just when I had lost hope.
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Northwestern University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/10/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/10/2012
Interview Invite: 09/25/2012
Interview Attended: 10/23/2012
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 11/20/2012
Summary of Experience:
sad. liked it a lot here. luckily this rejection came on the same day as my PSU acceptance so it wasn't too crushing.
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Attended Interview, Waitlisted
University of Rochester
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 08/27/2012
Secondary Completed: 08/27/2012
Interview Invite: 09/03/2012
Interview Attended: 11/01/2012
Waitlisted: 01/24/2013
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
should hear back sometime in December
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Accepted off Waitlist
Boston University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/04/2012
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: 09/20/2012
Interview Attended: 10/18/2012
Waitlisted: 03/24/2013
Accepted: 04/30/2013
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
So being accepted off the waitlist is kind of hilarious. Apparently people actually do get accepted off the waitlist at schools, it is not a lie! - Waitlisted MD/PhD - Decision deferred to March - short interview, only 2
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Emory University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/06/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/10/2012
Interview Invite: 10/15/2012
Interview Attended: 01/10/2013
Waitlisted: 03/01/2013
Accepted: 04/29/2013
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
WL MSTP, offered "Alternate status" for MD-only, declined
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Vanderbilt University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/10/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/11/2012
Interview Invite: 12/03/2012
Interview Attended: 01/31/2013
Waitlisted: 02/20/2013
Accepted: 03/10/2013
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
YAY! - Loved it here. Nashville and Vandy are fantastic. Committee supposedly meeting at the end of February. -- Interview scheduled for late January
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Accepted
Pennsylvania State University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 08/26/2012
Secondary Completed: 08/27/2012
Interview Invite: 09/17/2012
Interview Attended: 11/11/2012
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: 11/20/2012
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew 3/12 ----- yay! so glad I interviewed here, would have never guessed how much I would love it.
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University of Michigan
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? Yes
Submitted: 09/03/2012
Secondary Completed: 09/10/2012
Interview Invite: 09/18/2012
Interview Attended: 12/06/2012
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: 03/03/2013
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
ACCEPTED!!!!!! Will almost certainly be matriculating. So unexpected! Email on 3/4 at 9:41 PM. love it here
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