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  • User #10933

  • Application cycles: 2008
  • Demographics: Female, Caucasian
  • Home state: New Jersey
  • Last Active: 08/29/2009
  • Brief Profile: EMT since February 2008 (12 hours/week continuing through 08/09 academic year)
    Hospital Volunteer since April 2008 (3 hours/week continuing through 08/09 academic year)
    Relief work in New Orleans (80+ hours over one week)
    Work with an elderly patient with Alzheimer\'s and a hip fracture
    Original research on branchiobdellid worms since January (continuing through academic year - will be submitting materials for publication)
    Dean\'s List every semester
    Various ongoing extracurriculars and paying jobs
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2008

    • Undergraduate college: Bard College at Simon\'s Rock
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 511
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 127, C/P 128, CARS 127  
    • Overall GPA: 3.70
    • Science GPA: 3.65

    Summary of Application Experience

    7/18 AMCAS sent. Working on the secondaries that are available online while I wait for my slightly incompetent (but wonderful) school to get my transcripts in.

    7/26 Collected my advisor/research supervisor, the human bio professor, and my German professor to write LORs. Still no transcripts from SR, have emailed the registrar about it.

    7/29 Transcripts from SR still haven't been processed, but were sent last week. Began receiving secondaries anyway. Going through the online ones, but can't do the paper ones until I am no longer on the road (~2 weeks). First LOR was sent to Interfolio.

    8/25 Transcripts from SR received on 7/29, AMCAS processed 8/21, receiving/submitting secondaries, need to bother other professors who are supposed to write LORs

    9/11 Last LOR should hopefully be in this weekend. Working on completing secondary essays by then. I've received all but some of the ones that screen.

    10/1 Last LOR finally in (after much justified harassing of professor). Sent them out to all of my schools. Hopefully I'll be complete at some soon. Was very happy to receive a secondary from Wake Forest a few weeks ago because I hear they screen a lot of people pre-secondary. Got one from OHSU too. Still haven't heard back from UNC or UCSF, but I'm not expecting one from either school.

    10/12 Decided on a whim to apply to Drexel. I like Philadelphia, and a lot of the people who got in seemed to have similar stats. Also, 11 schools isn't that many, and 12 is more. Who knows?

    11/19 I was starting to get nervous about the complete lack of news, and then today I got an interview invite from UMDNJ! I'd rather be out of state, but UMDNJ's a good school and I'd be happy to go there.

    1/20 Rejection from OHSU and invite from SUNY Downstate on the same day. Excited about the interview and glad that something is finally happening, despite that meaning some rejections. Also very glad to have another interview invite, even from a school that doesn't take many OOS.

    3/9 Disappointed by WL from UMDNJ (I was actually really impressed by their program.) Liked Downstate, but my interviewer told me he didn't think I'd get in because of my age (though he repeatedly expressed that he was sure I'd get in somewhere eventually and be very successful). In any case, I probably won't hear back from them until the beginning of May. Just got an interview at CMS. Every time I give up hope, something new comes up.

    6/16 Accepted at Rosalind Franklin!! I sent in my AMCAS for next year yesterday. I'm so happy that I don't need to go through all of this again. Best of luck to all!

    Applied, Rejected

    University of California, San Francisco
    University of North Carolina

    Applied, Withdrew

    Loma Linda University

    Application Complete, Rejected

    Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson
    Stanford University
    Wake Forest University
    New York University
    New York Medical College
    Oregon Health & Science University
    Drexel University

    Attended Interview, Rejected

    SUNY Downstate

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Rejected

    UMDNJ - New Jersey

    Accepted off Waitlist

    Rosalind Franklin University

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