spazinewt
Application cycles: 09/20/2010
Demographics: Female, 41, East Asian
Home state: California
Last Active: 05/31/2011

Brief Profile: Graduated in 2006 with an interdisciplinary Neuroscience major. The major was under Engineering (I spent my first 2-3 years doing the Electrical Engineering major), but also involved computer science (neural networks, machine vision, etc), and neurobiology. I briefly thought to myself that I might want to apply to medical school my senior year, so I made sure to sign up for the last of the premed reqs I hadn\'t taken already as part of my major/GenEd (Ochem) in my senior year.
I applied to PhD programs in Neuroscience, deferred acceptance to gain some work experience, and ended up declining my acceptance and working for 4 years in a speech and hearing research lab. The lab was in an institute affiliated with a top ENT clinic and as a result I worked with various clinicians as part of my work and decided I really did want to be a clinician and not purely a researcher. When the lab moved and closed in early 2010, and having all the pre-reqs under my belt from 4-8 years ago, I took the opportunity to look into applying to Med School. I found out the application was open in May (it was late April at this point), but decided to do several intensive months of shadowing, MCAT prep, and application drafting anyway in order to apply this cycle instead of waiting a whole year. Having started late, and having mediocre stats, I only got one interview, but it resulted in an acceptance! One is all I needed=)

Clinical/Volunteering ECs:
3 months of physician shadowing, 40-60 hours a week
1 year volunteering each at 2 local hospitals, one university affiliated, and one children\'s hospital
2 years peer counseling/first responder in college

Work Experience:
4 years work experience in the hospitality industry (with 1 year teaching/leadership experience)
4 years work experience as a researcher (speech perception in deaf adults)
2 years research assistant experience in college (sensory perception in infants)
1 summer research project abroad (cross-lingual speech production and perception)

Other leadership:
Dorm Dining liaison, Secretary, and Vice President
Club leadership (Glee club, science fiction club, re-enactment society)
Editor for undergraduate research journal

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spazinewt took the old MCAT and scored a 33 which is in the 91^th percentile of all old scores. We converted this to a 514 on the updated scale which is in the 91^th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted spazinewt’s section scores as follows:
spazinewt scored a 11 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
spazinewt scored a 12 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
spazinewt scored a 10 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.

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