Undergraduate College: Duke University
Undergraduate Area of Study: Biological/Life Sciences
MCAT: BS 12, PS 14, VR 11, Q
Overall GPA: 3.76
Science GPA: 3.85
Brief Profile:
AMCAS submitted: 7/3/2010
Applied, Rejected
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Didn't even bother sending a secondary
Application Complete, Rejected
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Easiest secondary I've had
Invited for Interview, Withdrew
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Attended Interview, Rejected
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: Yes
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Thanks, alma mater :-(
Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Withdrew
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: Yes
- Waitlisted: Yes
- Accepted: No
Accepted off Waitlist
University of Chicago - "At last, got some love back!
Had to request them to resend my invitation to complete the secondar..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: Yes
- Waitlisted: Yes
- Accepted: Yes
Summary of Experience:
At last, got some love back!
Had to request them to resend my invitation to complete the secondary, since my Gmail account didn't receive the one they sent in July, meaning that I submitted my secondary in late September. Put on hold, then put on the continued list, then put on the waitlist before finally being accepted. It's been a marathon of perseverance.
Accepted
Northwestern University - "Short turnaround--accepted less than 4 weeks after the interview! Will attend if not admitted to UC..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: Yes
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Short turnaround--accepted less than 4 weeks after the interview! Will attend if not admitted to UChicago.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: Yes
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Good school, but Northwestern was a better fit. Withdrew.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: Yes
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Lost my application until I e-mailed them about it. Tough decision to withdraw--I was accepted as a North Carolina resident, and have spent most of my life in North Carolina.
Summary of Application Experience
Two emergency medicine summer internships, three publications, poster presentation at SAEM conference, anatomy teaching assistant, anatomy lab assistant, chemistry outreach demonstrator, dissection lab volunteer, fraternity leadership (president, executive vice president, programming chair, rush chair), multiple fraternity awards and recognitions, Dean's List multiple semesters, Graduation with Distinction (cum laude), honors thesis research, pathology shadowing.
Advice for applicants: if you don't already have a good hobby, get one (or 2 or 3). Keeping busy will help you pass the time while waiting to hear back from schools.
