- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.0 cGPA, 3.8 sGPA
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 515 mcat, 123/130/131/131
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): USA, dual citizenship with Brazil (moved to US age 13)
- Ethnicity and/or race: South American white
- Undergraduate institution or category: mid-tier university in Florida, BA in English Literature (2010) and BA in Music (violin performance) (2011), post-bacc premed classes at a community college in texas (started them in 2020, finished them this year)
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 200 hours hospice volunteer, 100 hours paid CNA
- Research experience and productivity: none
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 20 hours FM physician shadowing, 40 hours Psychiatry physician shadowing
- Non-clinical volunteering: 200 hours violin teacher at a non profit music school for poor kids, 100 hours middle school English tutor, 50 hours soup kitchen volunteer, 100 hours crisis text line volunteer, 200 hours picking up trash in the neighborhood I live in while on my daily walks
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): violinist, Brazilian jiu jitsu, half-marathoner, music criticism, competitive powerlifting
- Relevant honors or awards: Honors at community college where I did my post-bacc premed classes
- Anything else not listed you think might be important: compulsive violin practicer. 39 years old. 11 years working a lowly entry level customer service role at a tech company full time 50 hours a week, the past 3 years simultaneously working as a violin teacher part time at a private music school 14 hours a week. Voracious reader of science non-fiction (Robert Sapolsky and Oliver Sacks are the heroes of my 30s just how Faulkner and Vonnegut were the heroes of my 20s). In my 20s: 3 years life insurance agent, 4 years university resident assistant.
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