Would like to apply to maybe ~30 schools or so and need help maybe trimming or maybe replacing schools.
Teaching: Was a gen chem lab TA my sophomore year (50 hrs), organic lab TA my junior year that including making my own lecture slides, assisting in running instrumentation, etc. (~200 hours), and first approved organic lecture for majors TA that helped run help sessions, office hours, write exams/grade, and help out during lectures (500 hours); was nominated by my students to win the undergrad TA award in the department
Leadership: **President since sophomore year of my major's club that meant to sell chemistry in a more fun way and open to all people that started off with only about 3 active members, helped create my own strong E-board and grew the club to include all majors, increased attendance and size of club at least 5x, increased funding by a few thousand dollars, applied to volunteer for events on campus running experiments during family weekends, alumni weekends, etc.
**Was chosen by the the chem department to be part of their equity and diversity committee as one of the 2 undergraduate representatives for 3 semesters that helped increase interaction within the department, collect stories for the magazine, and help run fun events for everyone to attend
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: (sGPA: 3.96, cGPA 3.97)
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 517 (131/126/129/131)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): MA
- Ethnicity and/or race: East/Southeast Asian
- Undergraduate institution or category: State; graduated 2021
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): Hospital volunteer for 2 summers (250 hrs), Currently a gap year medical assistant/scribe at a private practice (1300 hrs before I apply this June)
- Research experience and productivity: Did bench chemistry/biochem/biology research for 4 years in college (1500 hours); completed an honors thesis, did 2 poster presentations, 1 national conference (virtually/live because of COVID), and Statewide presentation (recorded for online cause COVID); also won many awards school-related awards here including writing a school research grant and winning funds ($3000) for my thesis and for conference traveling before COVID
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 350 hours total (Internal medicine, pulm/crit care, nephrology)
- Non-clinical volunteering: Prob my weak point here because everywhere I tried to look either didnt want me to interfered with what I wanted but 230 hours at a soup kitchen at a rural community before COVID hit; did have some other volunteer-related gigs with my clubs (see below)
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc):
Teaching: Was a gen chem lab TA my sophomore year (50 hrs), organic lab TA my junior year that including making my own lecture slides, assisting in running instrumentation, etc. (~200 hours), and first approved organic lecture for majors TA that helped run help sessions, office hours, write exams/grade, and help out during lectures (500 hours); was nominated by my students to win the undergrad TA award in the department
Leadership: **President since sophomore year of my major's club that meant to sell chemistry in a more fun way and open to all people that started off with only about 3 active members, helped create my own strong E-board and grew the club to include all majors, increased attendance and size of club at least 5x, increased funding by a few thousand dollars, applied to volunteer for events on campus running experiments during family weekends, alumni weekends, etc.
**Was chosen by the the chem department to be part of their equity and diversity committee as one of the 2 undergraduate representatives for 3 semesters that helped increase interaction within the department, collect stories for the magazine, and help run fun events for everyone to attend
- Relevant honors or awards
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
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