Appreciate all help in creating a list to apply to! Thanks in advance! I am a year out of college now, and am excited to apply and make my dream become a reality! I have really pitched my goal as working to advance the standard of care in my primary application, as this has been the work of doctors who have inspired me.
cGPA and sGPA: 3.22 cGPA, 3.20 sGPA
GPA by Semester: 3.43, 2.54, 2.41, 3.22, 3.59, 3.18, 3.60, 3.94
Major: Double major in engineering science and chemistry, double minor materials science and biomedical eng
Trend: The drop off in my second and third semesters is due to family passing away during/right around finals weeks. I have not specifically mentioned this in my primary...should I even mention this?
MCAT: 517 (130, 127 in CARS, 130, 130)
State of residence: Illinois
Ethnicity: White, Jewish, Spanish
Undergraduate institution: "Public Ivy"
Shadow: 2 doctors, 8 hours each. I can speak well to what I learned from each experience.
Clinical volunteering ~30 hours volunteering at hospital, then tore ACL/MCL/meniscus and had to stop... Just recently committed to volunteer another 150 hours by the time I will enroll in 2019.
Non-clinical volunteering: organized 3 philanthropies fundraising over $9000 for local mental health groups, ~30 hours of tutoring middle school students, Habitat for Humanity ~ 60 hours over a Spring Break
Research experience and productivity:
1) 500 hours working as a physical chemist for the FDA:
Here I developed a novel pharmacological method for which I had abstracts/poster presentations at the FDA and at an international conference on nanomedicine. This data is included in a submission to a top journal in the field as a middle author, however, it is currently in peer review.
2) 120 hours on developing a novel spectroscopic technique/instrument:
Our team recorded the most precise measurement of enantiomeric excess relative to literature. The abstract has been accepted to an international conference on molecular spectroscopy this year, but I am not presenting the poster.
3) 400 hours on Ultrasound Guided Radiation Delivery:
Abstract and poster presentation at my school. The system my partner and I helped design has been approved for a trial on 6 patients at our university hospital. I read that UC Irvine is big on ultrasound so I thought that could be one opportunity!
Work experience:
1)Three summers at an inclusion camp (includes children with disabilities)
2)Will have completed two years in a tech company as a technical sales engineer creating client demos
Letters:
1) very strong letter from Senior Staff Fellow at the FDA labs
2) strong letter from a nanoscience professor who will speak to my ability to think creatively in order to engineer the medical solutions of tomorrow
3) strong letter from an engineering English professor who will speak to my ability to examine the societal and ethical aspects of medicine
Comments:
I have the MSAR and was wondering best way to use it? Find schools where I am above 75th MCAT maybe?
Thoughts? I think I have seen somewhere that high MCAT and low GPA can be difficult because for some schools the MCAT will be too high?
cGPA and sGPA: 3.22 cGPA, 3.20 sGPA
GPA by Semester: 3.43, 2.54, 2.41, 3.22, 3.59, 3.18, 3.60, 3.94
Major: Double major in engineering science and chemistry, double minor materials science and biomedical eng
Trend: The drop off in my second and third semesters is due to family passing away during/right around finals weeks. I have not specifically mentioned this in my primary...should I even mention this?
MCAT: 517 (130, 127 in CARS, 130, 130)
State of residence: Illinois
Ethnicity: White, Jewish, Spanish
Undergraduate institution: "Public Ivy"
Shadow: 2 doctors, 8 hours each. I can speak well to what I learned from each experience.
Clinical volunteering ~30 hours volunteering at hospital, then tore ACL/MCL/meniscus and had to stop... Just recently committed to volunteer another 150 hours by the time I will enroll in 2019.
Non-clinical volunteering: organized 3 philanthropies fundraising over $9000 for local mental health groups, ~30 hours of tutoring middle school students, Habitat for Humanity ~ 60 hours over a Spring Break
Research experience and productivity:
1) 500 hours working as a physical chemist for the FDA:
Here I developed a novel pharmacological method for which I had abstracts/poster presentations at the FDA and at an international conference on nanomedicine. This data is included in a submission to a top journal in the field as a middle author, however, it is currently in peer review.
2) 120 hours on developing a novel spectroscopic technique/instrument:
Our team recorded the most precise measurement of enantiomeric excess relative to literature. The abstract has been accepted to an international conference on molecular spectroscopy this year, but I am not presenting the poster.
3) 400 hours on Ultrasound Guided Radiation Delivery:
Abstract and poster presentation at my school. The system my partner and I helped design has been approved for a trial on 6 patients at our university hospital. I read that UC Irvine is big on ultrasound so I thought that could be one opportunity!
Work experience:
1)Three summers at an inclusion camp (includes children with disabilities)
2)Will have completed two years in a tech company as a technical sales engineer creating client demos
Letters:
1) very strong letter from Senior Staff Fellow at the FDA labs
2) strong letter from a nanoscience professor who will speak to my ability to think creatively in order to engineer the medical solutions of tomorrow
3) strong letter from an engineering English professor who will speak to my ability to examine the societal and ethical aspects of medicine
Comments:
I have the MSAR and was wondering best way to use it? Find schools where I am above 75th MCAT maybe?
Thoughts? I think I have seen somewhere that high MCAT and low GPA can be difficult because for some schools the MCAT will be too high?
