Undergraduate College: Top 100
Undergraduate Area of Study: Biological/Life Sciences
MCAT: BS 1, PS 1, VR 1, L
Overall GPA: 1.00
Science GPA: 1.00
Brief Profile:
Healthy amount of research, publications, several non-medical ECs, volunteering, some clinical experience.
GPA: 3.9+
MCAT: 40+
I want this to be as useful as possible for future applicants, so I'll come fill in all of my details at the end of the cycle.
Top choices: Vandy, Yale, and Mayo. Certainly not ruling out the others, however.
AMCAS submitted: 6/2/2010
Applied
Applied, Withdrew
Application Complete
Invited for Interview
Attended Interview
Summary of Application Experience
KEY FOR THE ABOVE ABBREVIATIONS:
SR = secondary received
SS = secondary submitted
C = complete (secondary received + LORs received)
II = interview invite
IA = interview attended
A = accepted
W = withdrew
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Expecting nothing, shooting for the stars. We\'ll see what happens.
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SCHOOL IMPRESSIONS:
UT San Antonio (interview date: 8/30/2010)
PROS: faculty and students were extremely nice and appreciative of our presence, students seemed very happy and relaxed, every student that I talked to emphasized the camaraderie of the class and trying to work through the med school grindfest as a group rather than as a set of competitive individuals, and organ systems curriculum
CONS: facilities (they're quite old) and San Antonio (not too excited about going to yet another city that "grows on you")
Overall, the experience here was pretty enjoyable. My first interview ever was with the Dean of Admissions (yikes), so that was a pretty intimidating way to start off the cycle. The interviews were fairly straightforward and essentially consisted of asking about the stuff on my PS and supplemental essay(s). I enjoyed my time there and could certainly see myself as a UTSA student, but there was a lot that was left to be desired, especially with respect to the facilities. Sorry, but it takes more than an "outdoor recreation area" and a student lounge with crazy lights to entice me. Regardless, I was pleasantly surprised with UTSA and have moved it off the "not even considering" list to the "a possibility" list.
UT Houston (interview date: 9/3/2010)
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Vandy (interview date: 9/7/2010)
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UT Southwestern (interview date: 9/11/2010)
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University of Chicago (interview date: 9/28/2010)
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University of Michigan (interview date: 10/1/2010)
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Baylor College of Medicine (interview date: 10/15/2010)
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CYCLE TIMELINE:
6/1 - MCAT scores back... what a HUGE surprise!
6/2 - TMDSAS submitted - waiting on payment, transcript, and committee letters to be complete; AMCAS submitted - waiting on transcript and committee letters to be complete
6/3 - Baylor transcript received by AMCAS
6/4 - Baylor transcript received by TMDSAS
6/9 - AMCAS verified (cGPA calculated as 4.00 - more generous than my cursed institution); UTSW secondary submitted
6/25 - Columbia secondary received; Michigan secondary received
6/26 - Mayo \"request for payment\" received
6/28 - WashU secondary received
6/30 - Chicago Pritzker secondary received; Cornell secondary received; Penn secondary received
7/1 - Hopkins secondary received
7/3 - WashU secondary submitted; Michigan secondary submitted; Mayo payment submitted; Columbia secondary submitted
7/4 - Hopkins secondary submitted; Baylor secondary submitted
7/5 - Cornell secondary submitted
7/7 - Yale secondary received
7/14 - Mayo LOR request received; Maryland secondary received
7/15 - Yale secondary submitted
7/20 - Duke secondary received
7/23 - Chicago secondary submitted (finally)
7/29 - Harvard secondary received and submitted
8/3 - Committee LOR received my TMDSAS and Duke
8/4 - Committee LOR received by AMCAS; complete at Michigan; complete at Cornell; interview invite to UT San Antonio!
8/5 - Stanford secondary received
8/6 - Stanford secondary submitted; complete at WashU; complete at Baylor
8/7 - Vandy secondary received; Vandy interview invite!
8/8 - Withdrew from Maryland; realized that the $85 fee and cost to fly there if invited to interview wasn\'t worth it since I would almost certainly not attend
8/9 - Complete at Yale; complete at Chicago; complete at Stanford; Chicago interview invite!
8/10 - Complete/\"under review\" at UT Southwestern; Michigan interview invite!
8/11 - UT Houston interview invite!; Penn secondary submitted
8/13 - Vandy secondary submitted
8/17 - Complete at Mayo; complete at Harvard
8/18 - Complete at Hopkins; complete at Penn
8/19 - UTSW interview invite!
8/30 - UTSA interview attended; Baylor interview invite!
