- cGPA: 3.98
- sGPA: 4.00
- MCAT: 523 (132/129/130/132)
- State of residence: CO
- Ethnicity and/or race: Vietnamese American
- Undergraduate institution or category: Private Institution known for research, not T-20
- Clinical Experience:
Hospital Volunteer in Emergency Room MME- 250hrs over 2 years, also a leadership position in teaching new volunteers and running volunteer shifts. I also got an award for this position.
Vaccine clinic volunteer? - 25 hours, It wasn't really in a clinical capacity since I wasn't in the vaccination area and was just directing people to areas or towards resources about vaccines
Patient Transporter (Paid) MME - ~1400hrs over 2 years( 500 are new this cycle)
8. Research experience and productivity
Lab 1 - 550 hrs, 1 poster, got a summer fellowship with $3k
Lab 2 - >800 hrs, 1 poster at national conference (new this cycle), 1 presentation at national conference (new this cycle), summer fellowship with $3k, my name will be on papers but no plans for publishing until end of this year
9. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
Emergency Med - 40 hours
Ortho Surgery - 25 hours
10. Non-clinical volunteering
Biomedical Engineering Volunteer- 26 hours, helped clean and test hospital machinery for donation and shipment to another country that had a natural disaster. This was done under the supervision of a very qualified biomedical engineer.
Community Garden Volunteer (New this cycle) - 50 hours, helping cultivate vegetables for a nonprofit that spread nutritional awareness and distributes the food to underserved families, also helping children in these neighborhood learn value of food nutrition
Food distribution network volunteer (New this cycle) - ~20 hours, helped distribute food donations to qualifying underserved families
I included the vaccine clinic here last attempt, may rethink that depending on what y'all think.
11. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
TA - 50 hours
Peer Tutor - 174 hours
Jiu Jitsu Club Treasurer and President (MME) - 600 hours, some are new. Basically revived the club after COVID to a healthy, popular club and we've since had successful events and competitions. I've also competed in Jiu Jitsu tournament at a national expo.
Powerlifting - >1600 hrs, I've been doing this for years, Came back from a tendon surgery to continue powerlifting (500lb squat post) and Jiu Jitsu
Frat Treasurer - Leadership position, stabilized frat after declining membership
Other:
I'm also a mech E if that gives anyone any insight
School List From 23-24:
UCSF |
CWRU |
U colorado |
USC Keck |
Cinn |
USF Health Morsani |
UPenn |
Wash St.Louis |
Albert Einstein |
Boston uni |
Donald and Barbara Zucker SOM @ Hofstra |
Emory |
Geisel SOM at Dartmouth |
Ohio State University |
U Virginia |
NYU Grossman |
Johns Hopkins U SOM |
Mayo Clinic Alix |
Yale |
UMich |
Vanderbilt |
Uchicago |
Duke |
Kaiser |
Rochester |
Last Cycle Results
2 interviews->2 waitlists (Mayo and Rochester)
I think a big issue of mine was this school list. I decided that I would go "Boom or Bust," and y'all can see how that went. I'd really like some help with a new school list as well as some suggestions to DO schools. I've also been doing some nonclinical volunteering which was a weakpoint of mine last cycle. I also got burntout and turned in secondaries both late and subpar, so I'm going to re-evaluate how I'm going to set time aside for writing. Please be as brutal as you like. Thank you!
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