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  • kuromi

  • Application cycles: 06/01/2023
  • Demographics: Female, 27, South Asian
  • Home state: Ontario
  • Last Active: 11/03/2023
  • Brief Profile: Skewed results to maintain anonymity. At a decent Canadian university (not at UofT).

    Brief profile:
    An ORM, female and Canadian citizen. Majoring in applied maths and minoring in biophysics.
    First generation student from a middle class immigrant family living at home. Nothing special.

    Ongoing activities:
    1. Portering/dispatch operations assistant at local hospital (~400 hours completed between May-August 2023)
    - pretty significant clinical experience, met patients from all walks of life (including children!) who smiled in the face of adversity. so many homeless people as well. made me feel sympathy and respect humanity a little bit more
    - main roles were to accompany patients to appointments and operating room, as well as some admin work, also shadowed with the summer student mentorship program
    - definitely solidified interest in medicine and i became very, very, very knowledgable within everything hospital related (spent a ton of time walking around floors and in inpatient rooms, listening to conversations, being well versed in the politics, etc.)
    - just a summer job but definitely spoke a lot to me about healthcare
    - good insight into what shift work looks like (as i am interested in emergency medicine)

    2. Volunteer at local hospital (~40 hours since March 2023)
    - not as significant, just collected menus and did admin-y stuff. definitely met a lot of people + had the opportunity to shadow roles around the hospital
    - met a ton of coordinators who were very passionate about the work they did
    - continuing during school year and throughout university

    3. Graphics director and outreach support for university based healthcare club (~45 hours completed between October 2022-April 2023)
    - love graphic design, so i just made infographics for research the club did
    - also led/engaged in a research program for underrepresented groups (matched students with research supervisors for the summer)
    - loved the chance to be creative as a science student. it was just a fun experience for me that i could combine by supporting the clubs outreach + social media presence

    4. Private tutor (~100 hours from January-June 2023)
    - love math and had the opportunity to tutor a bunch of high school kids who all ended up doing well in their courses
    - met many students with adhd and other learning disabilities, helped them realize they were not dumb like they labelled themselves and could do anything they put their mind to with strategies that worked for them

    5. Undergraduate research volunteer (September 2023-???, approx. 5~ hours a week)
    - in a laboratory, working with bone structures via an online application and patient data

    6. Shadowing (to date):
    Cardiology: completed during fall reading week 2023, 13.5 hours in an outpatient clinic.
    - first day was kind of slow, second day was far more intriguing
    - learnt a little bit about practicing medicine; its not all saving lives, theres a ton of administrative work involved too. my attending was involved in research too and he was very invested in that + telling me about it
    - i think the most important thing was knowing that i liked seeing patients + interacting with them, which i did! some patients were very nice and sweet; especially in canada where we have a lot of diversity in languages and cultures, i loved every seeing the people from my city/community
    - kinda cheesy but when intriguing patients came in, i felt like cristina from greys; i was very intrigued by their history and wanted to know more + how the physician would tackle this issue
    - i definitely liked the atmosphere and environment; it definitely showed me that medicine is not all fixing people, sometimes you just have to reassure/tell a patient -- based on proper diagnoses/tests -- that they are okay

    Currently: getting destroyed by the fall semester (but theres still hope! maybe :/)

    • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 06/01/2023

    • Undergraduate college: Top Canadian Uni
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 486
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 120, C/P 121, P/S 122, CARS 123
    • Overall GPA: 3.80
    • Science GPA: 3.60

    Summary of Application Experience

    NOTE: Skewed MCAT score.

    Just a list of schools I made

    Allegedly Canadian friendly and my current cGPA fits: Loma Linda, West Virginia, Maryland, VCU, Stony Brook, Rutgers, Sidney Kimmel, Meharry, Michigan State, SUNY Upstate, Tulane, Case Western, Central Michigan, Boston, Emory, Dartmouth, George Washington

    Allegedly NOT Canadian friendly but my current cGPA fits: Howard, Georgia Regents, Wisconsin, New York Medical College, Brown, Tufts, Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Utah, Wayne State, Virginia, UCLA, Keck, UC Davis

    Canadian schools: any; ideally i would love to live in canada for the rest of my life but the canadian med process is messed up. but the us is expensive and nothing is guaranteed. well see.

    No applications have been submitted yet during this cycle.

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