Undergraduate College: Brown University
Undergraduate Area of Study: Physical Sciences
MCAT: BS 15, PS 14, VR 11, O
Overall GPA: 3.97
Science GPA: 3.96
Brief Profile:
Half Chinese, Half Hungarian. Double BS in Neuroscience and Physics. Senior Thesis in Physics.
AMCAS submitted: 7/30/2011
Applied, Withdrew
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
After 16 secondaries I could not get myself to write the 2 page autobiography (big regret at this stage).
Application Complete, Rejected
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/18/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/19/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/23/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/25/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Invited for Interview, Withdrew
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/15/2011
- Interview Invite: 9/30/2011
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
I don't like Pittsburgh, would rather live in NYC or Chicago.
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/26/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/27/2011
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Attended Interview, Rejected
Johns Hopkins University - "I got super sick the night before the second day of interviews, and I think I looked asocial and unp..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/11/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/5/2011
- Interview Attended: 10/27/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
I got super sick the night before the second day of interviews, and I think I looked asocial and unpleasant as a result. I ended up spending the week right after interviews in bed. I liked the school a lot so that's a shame, but I guess I don't mind not living in Baltimore.
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/27/2011
- Interview Invite: 11/14/2011
- Interview Attended: 12/15/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Attended Interview, Waitlisted
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/22/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/26/2011
- Interview Attended: 12/7/2011
- Waitlisted: 2/7/2012
- Accepted: No
Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Withdrew
Yale University - "Waitlisted, but don't really want to live in New Haven. Withdrew."
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/3/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/2/2011
- Interview Attended: 11/7/2011
- Waitlisted: 3/16/2012
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Waitlisted, but don't really want to live in New Haven. Withdrew.
Accepted
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/3/2011
- Interview Invite: 9/28/2011
- Interview Attended: 10/31/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 12/15/2011
Summary of Experience:
Woo.
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/16/2011
- Interview Invite: 12/5/2011
- Interview Attended: 1/10/2012
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 3/5/2012
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/20/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/4/2011
- Interview Attended: 11/17/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 12/13/2011
Summary of Experience:
Tri-I Program (Cornell, Rockefeller, Sloan-Kettering).
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/21/2011
- Interview Invite: 11/1/2011
- Interview Attended: 12/1/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 3/4/2012
Summary of Experience:
CALTECH/UCLA Joint program.
Waitlisted at CALTECH, but only really interested in CALTECH PhD. Withdrew.
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/29/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/17/2011
- Interview Attended: 11/18/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 2/24/2012
Combined PhD/MSTP: Yes
- Submitted: 9/1/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/30/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/28/2011
- Interview Attended: 11/4/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 12/2/2011
Summary of Application Experience
All schools listed were MSTP applications only (MD PhD), with research focus in biomedical engineering (Brain-Machine Interfaces, Neuroprosthetics, or Imaging).
Neuroscience research for 1.5 years, Biological Physics research for 1 year by time of graduation for Honors Thesis.
Primary EMT with Brown University EMS, 12 hours / week.
