- Undergrad cGPA: 3.43 (upward trend?) -- traditional engineering background
- Grad GPA (master in engineering): 3.89
- MCAT score(s): 512 (129/125/130/128) -- planning on retake in May
- State of residence or country of citizenship: NY (permanent resident)
- Ethnicity and/or race: ORM
- Undergraduate institution or category: Non-HYP Ivy
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
- First responder training: ~80 hours
- Clinical volunteer: 150 hours (about 300 hours by the time applying)
- Research experience and productivity
- Undergrad research: received honors and poster awards, no publication: ~1560 hours
- Gap year research: submitted abstract to a national conference, ~ 2095 hours
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- General surgery: ~105 hours clinical preceptorship
- Primary Care: 20 hours
- Anesthesiology: 5 hours
- Orthopedics: 8 hours
- Vascular Surgery: 8 hours
- Pathology: 8 hours
- Virtual shadowing (multiple specialities): 124 hours
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- Rare disease data extractor: 110 hours
- Food bank distributor: 240 hours
- Student ambassador: 40 hours
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Teaching assistant: 640 hours
- Extra-curricular engineering club (making sustainable medical device for people in developing countries): 480 hours
- Graduate project: project about finding novel solutions to current treatments in the orthopedic field
- Relevant honors or awards
- Graduated with honors in the major (one of the two recipients)
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- During college, I didn't start with a pre-med track, I came from an engineering background and decided to pursue a career in medicine after receiving care on a critical illness. Later from my exposure as a first responder, I realized what a medical professional care provide to the patient and decided to continue my pre-med journey.
School list:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dartmouth
Drexel University College of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Northwestern University the Feinberg School of Medicine
Quinnipiac University
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tulane University
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences the Pritzker School of Medicine
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania (Perelman)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Wake Forest
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Update:
I decide to include my year by year GPA here as suggested by Goro and Mr.Smile12
cGPA | sGPA | |
Freshman | 2.94 | 2.74 |
Sophomore | 3.32 | 3.10 |
Junior | 3.54 | 3.25 |
Senior | 3.82 | 3.93 |
Master Degree in BME gpa: 3.89
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