Application Cycle One: 06/12/2018
- Undergraduate college: Public State School
- Undergraduate Area of study: Engineering/Technology
- Total MCAT SCORE: 472
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- MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 118,
C/P 118,
P/S 118, CARS 118
- Overall GPA: 0.00
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- Science GPA: 0.00
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Summary of Application Experience
Application Cycle Timeline
School-specific dates are available in the section below this, and I have also included a visual representation of my cycle at the bottom of this section (scroll right for key).
04/23: Started worrying that I hadnt started writing anything or asked for LORs
05/01: TMDSAS opened, cue the anxiety
05/15: Finally started writing PS
05/18: Asked for LORs (do not recommend asking this late, pretty sure I got lucky on the turnaround time)
05/24: First draft of PS done
05/25: Trashed PS and restarted
05/30: Completely done with PS, transcript received by TMDSAS and AMCAS
05/31: AMCAS opened, anxiety increases
06/03: Submitted TMDSAS
06/11: Added TTUHSC Lubbock to primary
06/12: Submitted AMCAS
06/15: Neurotic friends and r/premed and SDN increase anxiety further
06/19: TMDSAS verified and transmitted, TAMU/UTSW secondary received
06/20: McGovern/TTU Lubbock/TTU PLFSOM secondary received
06/22: LORs received by TMDSAS
06/27: Complete at UTSA/UTMB
06/28: UTSW secondary submitted and complete
06/30: TTU Lubbock secondary submitted and complete, Columbia secondary received
07/01: TAMU/TTU PLFSOM secondary submitted and complete
07/02: LORs received by AMCAS, McGovern secondary submitted and complete
07/06: Prtizker secondary received
07/10: UMich/UPenn/Duke secondary received
07/11: Vanderbilt/Sinai secondary received
07/12: NYU secondary received
07/13: Mayo secondary received
07/16: TTU Lubbock II! (first one), BCM secondary submmited and complete
07/17: Yale/NW Feinberg secondary received
07/19: Harvard secondary received
07/20: UCLA secondary received (yay made it past their holistic screen, take that Dell)
07/31: UTMB II!!
08/01: UTSW II!!!, NW Feinberg secondary submitted and complete
08/02: WashU added to primary, decided to not suffer through Dukes insufferable secondary and take the L
08/03: UMich/Pritzker/NYU/Sinai/UCLA secondary submitted and complete, WashU secondary received
08/07: BCM II!!!!!
08/10: Mayo MN secondary submitted and complete
08/11: Yale secondary submitted and complete
08/12: Vanderbilt/UPenn/Columbia secondary submitted and complete, WashU secondary submitted (they had to manually verify that my LORs met their standards)
08/14: Harvard secondary submitted (decided last second to apply to HST too) and complete
08/17: TTU Lubbock interview attended, neurotically decided not to close doors and write Dukes secondary hoping that other higher stat applicants were too lazy thereby giving me a better shot :)
08/21: WashU verification finished, now complete there
08/23: TTU PLFSOM II!
Invited for Interview
Baylor College
- Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
- Submitted: 07/01/2018
- Secondary Completed: 07/16/2018
- Interview Invite: 08/07/2018
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
- Rejected: No
- Summary of Experience:
Pre-Interview Thoughts:
WOOHOO SO HAPPY TO GET AN II HERE!! Realistically this is my top choice as it is cheap, close to home, and an EFFING AMAZING SCHOOL! Cant wait to attend the interview day - gotta be super ready for this one.
Interview Day:
Stay tuned
Overall Impression:
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Attended Interview
Texas Tech University
- Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
- Submitted: 06/20/2018
- Secondary Completed: 06/30/2018
- Interview Invite: 07/16/2018
- Interview Attended: 08/17/2018
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
- Rejected: No
- Summary of Experience:
Pre-interview Thoughts:
As a Houstonian, Im pretty apprehensive about going to school in Lubbock which is a pretty small town. Especially with much higher ranked schools far closer to home for me, I cant really see myself going here but I would if I had to as it is still a great school (I personally know 2 alumni). I genuinely like their program overall.
Interview Day:
Wow okay so this was my first II and the first interview I attended so I did not have much to compare it to. But I have to say, it was really fun! Every single person I met was super chill and down to earth and I got a really nice vibe here. Idk how I feel about the clinical rotations possibly being at satellite campuses in Amarillo and Midland/Odessa as Lubbock is already small enough, but they said that outside consultants have confirmed that there is no difference in the quality of education. Also, the hospital facilities were a little underwhelming and we didnt get a chance to see more than one sim room since MS3s and MS4s were testing in them at the time. The interviews themselves were literally just a conversation and everybody was incredibly friendly. Many of the students had families/spouses and the school felt like a very supportive and collaborative environment overall, despite H/HP/P/F in preclinical.
Overall Impression:
Gotta say, Lubbock was nicer than I expected and the school really tried to sell it as a nice cheap place to live. Overall though, this school is very primary care focused (specifically family medicine) and match lists show that. For that simple reason, I probably wont matriculate here unless its one of my only options.
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