Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 523
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 132,
C/P 129,
CARS 130
Overall GPA: 3.96
Science GPA: 3.96
Summary of Application Experience
Applied late due to crazy life events.
ECs 100 hours of shadowing Helped start bass fishing club + competed nationally in college bass fishing 150 hours volunteer tutoring TA'd two courses 500 Hours tutoring student athletes Few other minor things i'm forgetting
Gap year activities hospice care volunteer tutoring for employment (middle school kids + high school kids, at a company)
was told my personal statements was excellent by multiple interviewers. i'm a philosophy minor and explained how that influenced my motivation to pursue medicine, among other things mentioned.
Alot of my dates are approximate, other than complete date. But theyre very close.
I did this whole thing incorrectly. I applied very late, to not that many schools (7), to only one of my three in state schools, without a committee letter(due to late app), without all that much clinical experience(no clinical volunteering on my primary, but I did a fair amount throughout my gap year and with my late interviews I was able to talk about it quite a bit), and with no research. I'm under no illusion that without a 39 on my MCAT / 3.95 gpa I wouldn't have had this success with such an atypical cycle. The other key is I have a very strong motivation towards medicine from my philosophy background and my goal in being a physician mentor(as evidenced by my ~1500-2000 hours of tutoring). So with my grades and motivations I think I was able to quell and reservations the adcoms had about me.
Application Complete
Pennsylvania State University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Currently on hold but will just assume rejection because they were the first school to get back to me. On hold in november or december I believe. As an OOS I probably needed research or more direct clinical experience to have a shot there.
Summary of Experience:
Was EFI. Never got an interview but that was pretty expected due to the late app. Probably shouldn't have applied there, but love the area so it was worth a shot.
Summary of Experience:
Nice school. IS so I would love to go here. had a crazy time getting there, so I was sleepy during the MMI and flubbed one of the interviews. Questions were so-so but still loved the place and would love to go there
-- Well got rejected from here. Not too surprising with getting an Ii two days before the last interview, it was pretty clear they didn't want me. Oh well
Summary of Experience:
Loved this place. hoping for an acceptance. Both of my interviewers were awesome. Students all seem really happy and Jeff has an awesome rep in philly and the surrounding area.
Got the II shortly after I sent them an update/LOI
RutgersAR took the old MCAT and scored a 39 which is in the 100th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 523 on the updated scale which is in the 100th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted RutgersAR’s section scores as follows:
RutgersAR scored a 15 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 132 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
RutgersAR 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.
RutgersAR scored a 12 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 130 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
