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Hi, I’m planning on applying in the upcoming application cycle. Any input on the school list would be great!!
State/Country of Residence: New York
Ties to other States/Regions: Michigan (lived for 15 years + undergrad), Colorado (brother lives there, visit often)
URM?: No
Year in School: Graduated 2021
Undergraduate Degree: Neuroscience and Philosophy of Science (TESOL minor)
GPA: 3.97 cGPA, ~3.94 sGPA
MCAT Score(s): 513 (129, 124, 130, 130). CARS is my main worry.
Research Experience: 585 hours in undergrad and I will have another ~3300 hours by matriculation since I work in a lab now.
Publications/Abstracts/Posters: Acknowledgments on a paper during Undergrad. 4 poster presentations last year (all virtual tho). Probs will have more by the end of this job.
Clinical Experience (paid and volunteer): About 750 paid hours (500 hours as a MA and 250 as a COVID screener). 150 hours as a hospital volunteer.
Physician Shadowing: About 125 hours total with a few surgeons and one FM doctor.
Non-Clinical Volunteering: 650 hours throughout undergrad (and will have maybe another 150 by matriculation).
Other Extracurricular Activities: Won a major writing scholarship to learn about science communication in France for a summer.
Other Employment History: 750 hours as a Physics TA. 156 as a Sexual Assault Educator.
Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): No (first-generation college)
A specialty of Interest: Open to everything but currently leaning towards optho or ENT. Work/life balance is important to me.
Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Yes
Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): No. Want to work with underserved communities in urban areas.
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State/Country of Residence: New York
Ties to other States/Regions: Michigan (lived for 15 years + undergrad), Colorado (brother lives there, visit often)
URM?: No
Year in School: Graduated 2021
Undergraduate Degree: Neuroscience and Philosophy of Science (TESOL minor)
GPA: 3.97 cGPA, ~3.94 sGPA
MCAT Score(s): 513 (129, 124, 130, 130). CARS is my main worry.
Research Experience: 585 hours in undergrad and I will have another ~3300 hours by matriculation since I work in a lab now.
Publications/Abstracts/Posters: Acknowledgments on a paper during Undergrad. 4 poster presentations last year (all virtual tho). Probs will have more by the end of this job.
Clinical Experience (paid and volunteer): About 750 paid hours (500 hours as a MA and 250 as a COVID screener). 150 hours as a hospital volunteer.
Physician Shadowing: About 125 hours total with a few surgeons and one FM doctor.
Non-Clinical Volunteering: 650 hours throughout undergrad (and will have maybe another 150 by matriculation).
Other Extracurricular Activities: Won a major writing scholarship to learn about science communication in France for a summer.
Other Employment History: 750 hours as a Physics TA. 156 as a Sexual Assault Educator.
Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): No (first-generation college)
A specialty of Interest: Open to everything but currently leaning towards optho or ENT. Work/life balance is important to me.
Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Yes
Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): No. Want to work with underserved communities in urban areas.
MD -
- NYU (Strong ties so worth it)
- Yale (large focus on medical literature which I also have so gonna shoot my shot)
- Emory
- University of Michigan
- Western Michigan (Stryker)
- Renaissance School at Stony Brook
- NYU LI
- Albert Einstein
- Frank H. Netter Quinnipiac
- Saint Louis University
- SUNY Downstate
- Sidney Kimmel (Jefferson)
- Wayne State University
- Wake Forest
- Hackensack Meridian
- SUNY Upstate
- New York Medical College (NYMC)
- Lewis Katz (Temple)
- Jacobs School of Medicine (Buffalo)
- Drexel
- Robert Larner at University of Vermont
- Albany
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Oakland University William Beaumont
- TCU and UNTHSC
- Michigan State CHM
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- Western University COM Pacific
- Touro (Harlem)
- Michigan State COM
- A.T. Still University SOM - Arizona
- New York Institute of Technology COM
- Philadelphia COM