Hello everyone, thank you for your time and any feedback!
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
- cGPA: 3.43
- sGPA: 3.33
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown
- 520 (130,129,130,131)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
- Texas, USA
- Ethnicity and/or race
- White, male
- Undergraduate institution or category
- Louisiana State University for two years, dropped out and I am now at the University of Houston
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Volunteering at a hospital: 140 hours; I’ll probably volunteer here for another 100 hours over the summer.
- Data Collector for the CDC for their annual HIV risk survey. I interviewed injection drug users and administered HIV and hepatitis C tests along with providing counseling: 640 hours
- I am not entirely sure if this counts as clinical experience.
- Research experience and productivity
- 550 hours as a research intern over a summer, resulted in a poster.
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- Hematology/Oncology: 60 hours
- Plastic Surgery: 25 hours
- Ophthalmology: 39 hours
- Primary Care: 3 hours
- Non-clinical volunteering
- Volunteering at a food bank: 8 hours, I plan on volunteering here a lot more over the summer and before submitting my application.
- Volunteering at a local cultural outreach society: 16 hours
- Tutoring at a public school in an under-served area: 30 hours
- Volunteering at the annual Special Olympics held on the submarine base: 48 hours
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Navy, nuclear qualified electrician’s mate on a submarine: 6 years
- Relevant honors or awards
- 2023 Engineer’s week outstanding junior biomedical engineering student
- Navy Achievement Medal
- Dean’s list at UH 2020-2023
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- I plan on applying to all of the Texas MD schools, but I am unsure where I should apply out of state because of my GPA. The grades I received at LSU are around 9 years old at this point and I have shown a strong upward trend since I have started college again, with a 3.98/3.97 if counting only my UH grades.
