Background: Hispanic from South America (Bolivia). Lived most of my life in Spain/US. Got accepted to the Fee Assistance Program. Non-traditional (took 3 gap years prior to starting undergraduate, aka I’m 24); URM; just graduated (yay) from Boston University Cum Laude with 6/8 semesters on Dean’s List, on a gap year, applying to MD schools this cycle
GPA: 3.54
Major: Neuroscience, minor in French
MCAT: 501 (blah), thinking of retaking it in July (too late? would that hurt my chances?)
EC: -paid job at my university’s orientation office (part academic year + summer)
-Neuroscience elective course Undergraduate Assistant (a semester)
-Was a volunteer, then staff leader and now hold a paid job as program manager of a big community service program at my university (freshman-senior year)
-member and then VP of acapella group (2 years)
-member and fundraising chair of health-related club (1 year)
-member of neuroscience honor society
-member and then treasurer of club that represents my college at my university (2 years)
-studied abroad in France (semester)
Clinical: since 2012 I have had ~400 hours shadowing doctors, nurses, speech pathologists in Florida and Bolivia
Volunteer in Florida in ER, Pediatrics department (2012, pre-undergrad) and transporting lab results (2015) in Boston + my school’s community service program
Research worked 5 months at a biomedical engineering lab
Other speak English, Spanish, French, Portuguese (basic); have a strong, comprehensive letter from my university + I believe strong LORs
I know I am not the most competitive of applicants but I hope to think I have a shot, so I want to play my cards right
Med schools I'm currently thinking of...
BU, Rosalind Franklin, George Washington, Georgetown, Albany, Howard University, Hofstra, Loyola, New York Medical College, Rush, Rutgers, Tufts, Brown/Columbia (super duper duper reaches), UC Davis
PS. I was thinking of retaking the MCAT but I don’t want to again hurt my chances by taking it late in the summer, thoughts? should I retake it?