StephBee
Application cycles: 07/07/2011
Demographics: Female, 37, Caucasian
Home state: Colorado
Last Active: 12/21/2011

Brief Profile: This is my second cycle. Old info can be found: http://www.mdapplicants.com/profile.php?id=21572

I\\\'m going to be a reapplicant assuming I don\\\'t make it off Duke or Univ IL\\\'s waitlists.

Since my last cycle, I\\\'ve shadowed more and continued research. Graduated with my BS in December and moved back home to CO. My mother was recently diagnosed with cancer so I\\\'ve been kind of busy helping her out and working.
I\\\'m finishing patents for my old PI so he can get papers published.

Nothing too exciting but hopefully it\\\'s enough to make me look interesting.

The moral from my last cycle: I applied way too top heavy way too late. Applying to more schools this year with a much wider range of MCAT scores since I figure that will be my limiting factor. My GPA is above average for 90% of the schools I\\\'m applying to so I\\\'m not worried about it, though I may take some grad classes at CU boulder to keep my mind fresh.

ECs:
Near full time employment (30-35 hours a week) since freshman year> unfortunately, because of this massive time requirement, I have less ECs than some people.
Research in leukemia, 1.5 years, 6-8 hours a week. I\'m writing patents for our research before we can publish anything, poster presentations
Internship at Univ. Colorado Cancer Center, summer 2010. 35-40 hours a week. Poster presentations. I will be listen as an author when they finish the project I started
EMT-B : 36 hours of clinical stuff (ER and Ambulance)
Volunteer in ER and Post-Op: 1 full year, around 100 hours
Deans List every semester
TA for Immunology, Tutor for bio classes
Shadowing ortho and oncologist
College Ambassador (giving tours, talking about my school etc) since freshman year, 3-5 hours a week during orientation weekends

Personal hobbies added to AMCAS:
I\'m a writer and was a creative writing minor in college.
I\'m also a decently talented musician. I play piano (15 years), clarinet (11 years) and guitar (6 years).

I\"ve had a fairly rough life (talked about a lot in my PS) involving some big personal loses in my teenage years.
Shooting for the stars, MCAT ended up being lower than I expected but c\'est la vie.

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StephBee took the old MCAT and scored a 30 which is in the 79^th percentile of all old scores. We converted this to a 509 on the updated scale which is in the 80^th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted StephBee’s section scores as follows:
StephBee 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.
StephBee scored a 10 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
StephBee scored a 9 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 126 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.

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