G man1
Application cycles: 06/16/2011
Demographics: Male, African
Home state: Michigan
Last Active: 04/16/2013

Brief Profile: I am a non-traditional student pursuing a second career. My MCAT scores are below average, but I am hoping and praying that my life and career experiences coupled with my most current GPA from my 2nd Bachelor’s degree (received in Dec 2011) will demonstrate to the adcoms that my current academic capabilities and my strong desire to help improve people\'s lives tremendously outweigh my MCAT scores.

I did an academic 180 degree turn around from my 1st Bachelors degree obtained many years ago with a 2.4 GPA. I am hoping that adcoms will not just look at raw stats (MCAT and GPA) but will view the entire package and my ability to overcome past disadvantages.

Some of my experiences and accomplishments include:

- Foster Parent for special needs children for over 6 years (cared for over 50 children during this time). Adopted 2 special needs children from foster care.
- Volunteered in the nursery at my church during Sunday services and was a marriage ministry leader.
- Community service at local non-profit organization (over 2000 hrs volunteered over 4+ years).
- Volunteered at hospital in ER and laboratory for 1 year.
- Volunteered in my college professor’s laboratory for research experience for over 6 months.
- Shadowed ER physician and pediatrician.
- Countless hours of leadership experience via management positions throughout my professional career.
- West Point Graduate
- Prior service with awards as an officer in the U.S. Army.
- Phi Theta Kappa (community college)
- Phi Kappa Phi (4 year college)
- Active participant in local student organizations.

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G man1 took the old MCAT and scored a 23 which is in the 37^th percentile of all old scores. We converted this to a 496 on the updated scale which is in the 37^th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted G man1’s section scores as follows:
G man1 scored a 7 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 123 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
G man1 scored a 7 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 124 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
G man1 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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