manatee101
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Hi everyone! I am a junior hoping to apply this cycle. I want to go into primary care (family med with an interest in liver disease) or GI. I would appreciate any feedback on things I need to improve or what schools I should consider. I have extensive research experience, but am not limiting myself to research-focused schools unless that is what I will need to do.
- GPA: 3.79 cGPA, 3.70 sGPA
- Major: Junior Microbiology major at a UC (California)
- MCAT: 517 (129/131/127/130)
- ORM/URM: ORM, White (low-income, FAP recipient)
- Clinical volunteering:~660 hours
- 1 quarter of child life
- 2 years at a student-run clinic
- 4 years (projected) at another student-run clinic, currently doing self-directed IRB approved liver research within clinic
- Non-clinical volunteering:over 3000 hours
- 2.5 hours at an underserved high school science bowl team
- 1 year at a homeless shelter
- 1.5 years at a liver disease clinical research facility
- 4+ years (projected) at a community kitchen (since 9th grade)
- Shadowing: 75 hours across GI, nephrology, family medicine
- Teaching/Tutoring: ~60 hours as chemistry TA across one quarter
- Research: over 1000 hours
- 1 year at a liver immunology lab
- 1.5 years (projected) at a separate IRB self-designed project
- 2 years (projected) from a self-directed liver disease project and wet lab (first did a personal project then joined the physician's wet lab)
- Pubs/Posters:2 (maybe 3) first author posters at the school and regional level, 1 first author Cureus paper (also on liver disease), 1 school level publication
- Drafting 2 first-author pubs right now but will not be published by June 2024
- LORS: 2 strong research, 1 non-science, 2 science, 1 community member, 1 physician with whom I did research and clinical work with
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