Application Cycle One: 2007
Undergraduate college: Long Beach State
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 472
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 118,
C/P 118,
CARS 118 Detailed Breakdown
Overall GPA: 0.00
Science GPA: 0.00
Summary of Application Experience
Tips: 1) Do well on the MCAT. It helps. 2) Finish your personal statement and LORs before the application summer or at least before you get your MCAT score. Then just submit your AMCAS early in June with just your top choices. This would have saved me a ton of cash. 3) Take a year off between graduation and matriculation. Though I didn't do this, I wished I had throughout the cycle. Writing lab reports on red-eye flights home is torture. 4) Fly Southwest and rack up those rapid rewards. 5) Act excited to be there. I think half of the applicants were on sleeping pills at some of my interviews. 6) Go to Second Looks. I only went to USC's b/c I live nearby and it made me realize how important they are when making the decision. Scrounge the money up when that time comes. Schools SR SS SC Invite Details $ Baylor na 10.2 10.9 1.4 I: 11.30. Declined (12.17) $70 Columbia na 9.12 10.15 Rejected in March $75 Cornell na 10.9 10.10. 2.28 i: 3/7 a: 3/8 email $575 JHU na 9.4 9.24 Rejected mid-April $75 Loyola 9.17 10.10. Rejected in April $70 Michigan na 8.30. 9.4 On hold: 9.27 Rej: March $75 NU 8.22 8.26 8.31 10.12 I: 11.7, a: 2/29 (website)$465 OHSU 9.4 X X more inclined for residency Penn 10.3 10.8 WL early December. $110 Pitt na 8.31 8.31 9.7 accepted: 11.26! packet $293 Rosa Frank na X X X Stanford na 9.25 10.5 Rejected in March $80 U of Chicago na 9.12 9.17 rejected: 10.2. quick hook $75 UC Davis 9.27 10.3 Rejected: April $60 UC Irvine 8.20. 8.28 10.1 10.1 WL: 12.20. $60 UCLA 8.27 9.4 Sept. 3.7 Int. 4.4.08 $60 UCSD 8.29 9.17 9.26 11.30. 1.30.2008 wl: mid feb. $60 UCSF 8.16 8.30. 10.17 Rejected in March $60 UIC na X X X USC na 10.9 10.26 10.30. I: 1.15 A: 2/21/08 (mail) $95 Vandy 9.13 9.25 9.13 I: 12/3/2007 $400 WASH U na 8.29 8.31 10.24 I:11.16. A: 2.23 (USPS) $349 MCAT+EK+AMCAS+suit= $1340 Total spent $4447 (Excuse me while I go place my head in the oven)
Applied, Withdrew
Rosalind Franklin University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
A life in discovery? Really?
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Oregon Health & Science University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
A timeline? Really?
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University of Illinois
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Two psych classes? Really?
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Application Complete, Rejected
University of Pennsylvania
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
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Stanford University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
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Columbia University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
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Johns Hopkins University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
As much as I love The Wire, they probably did me a favor by rejecting me post-sec.
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University of Chicago
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
I actually appreciated the quick rejection. Would attend Feinberg over Pritzker in a heartbeat.
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University of Michigan
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
I guess it's not a true auto-interview.
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University of California, San Francisco
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
My top choice at the beginning. Their loss.
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Loyola University Chicago
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
They did send me a letter inviting me to apply to their post-bac program.
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University of California, Davis
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
You stay classy UC Davis. I'm not their type of applicant.
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Attended Interview, Withdrew
Baylor College
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Houston is not for me. Paid the secondary and then realized I had left Baylor off AMCAS.
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Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Withdrew
University of California, Irvine
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
''It's not you, it's me?' I invented it's not you, it's me!'
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Vanderbilt University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
An investment. Made me realize I could never live in the South.
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University of California, San Diego
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Insert Anchorman quote here: [ ]
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Accepted
University of California, Los Angeles
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: Yes
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Accepted May 24th. And there was much rejoicing. I guess stats was overlooked. Withdrew in June.
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University of Southern California
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: Yes
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Definitely an underrated school. Though, the Finaid is crap. Withdrew May.
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University of Pittsburgh
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: Yes
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
I loved The Burgh. 30K a year in grants and scholarships. Withdrew in May.
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Northwestern University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: Yes
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
In my top 3 before the process started (UCSF and Stanford were the other two). Great financial aid = my attendance.
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Cornell University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: Yes
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
next day acceptance: that's how all med schools should roll. Withdrew in May.
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Washington University in St. Louis
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: Yes
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
This school is ridonkulous. I wrestled with this decision for a long time. Withdrew in May.
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