International Student
Female
Stats
- GPA: 4.00
- MCAT: 513 (127/128/129/129) on 8/7/20 - (1st MCAT: 511 (130/123/128/130 on 7/7/20)
took twice just to bring up CARS
Volunteering: around 600 hours
--> Reach Out and Read
--> Cancer center ICU
--> volunteer tutor for urban school-going children
Research: around 1500 hours
2 publications (3rd and 4th author) in a journal with low impact # --> clinical research
--> currently working on 2 more manuscripts in a neuroscience lab (however probably will not be in top 3 authors) and thesis statement in psychiatry lab (that my mentor wants to submit for publication)
--> will be presenting 2 posters this November at the conference for psychiatry lab
Leadership
--> President of Pre-medical Honors Society AED (former vice-president)
--> was secretary of another pre-medical organization
--> member of PhiDeltaEpsilon and Dean's Student Leadership Society (interact with donors and alumni etc)
Employment
--> Tutor
--> Student Orientation Leader
--> desk clerk at housing (did not mention in application)
Shadowing - 90 hours
pediatrician, transplant surgeon, radiologist
Applied to schools that accepted at least 2 or 3 international students in the past years and who do not ask for escrow account; I know that there are many schools in the list that are very less likely will accept me, just decided to try
Boston University
Case Western
Columbia
Duke
Emory
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Harvard
Howard
Icahn
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Jefferson
Stanford
SUNY Upstate
Brown
Tulane
UCLA
U of Chicago
U of Colorado
U of Connecticut
U of Virginia
Vanderbilt
West Virginia
Yale
UC Davis
Female
Stats
- GPA: 4.00
- MCAT: 513 (127/128/129/129) on 8/7/20 - (1st MCAT: 511 (130/123/128/130 on 7/7/20)
took twice just to bring up CARS
Volunteering: around 600 hours
--> Reach Out and Read
--> Cancer center ICU
--> volunteer tutor for urban school-going children
Research: around 1500 hours
2 publications (3rd and 4th author) in a journal with low impact # --> clinical research
--> currently working on 2 more manuscripts in a neuroscience lab (however probably will not be in top 3 authors) and thesis statement in psychiatry lab (that my mentor wants to submit for publication)
--> will be presenting 2 posters this November at the conference for psychiatry lab
Leadership
--> President of Pre-medical Honors Society AED (former vice-president)
--> was secretary of another pre-medical organization
--> member of PhiDeltaEpsilon and Dean's Student Leadership Society (interact with donors and alumni etc)
Employment
--> Tutor
--> Student Orientation Leader
--> desk clerk at housing (did not mention in application)
Shadowing - 90 hours
pediatrician, transplant surgeon, radiologist
Applied to schools that accepted at least 2 or 3 international students in the past years and who do not ask for escrow account; I know that there are many schools in the list that are very less likely will accept me, just decided to try
Boston University
Case Western
Columbia
Duke
Emory
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Harvard
Howard
Icahn
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Jefferson
Stanford
SUNY Upstate
Brown
Tulane
UCLA
U of Chicago
U of Colorado
U of Connecticut
U of Virginia
Vanderbilt
West Virginia
Yale
UC Davis