Brief Profile:
2nd author on a couple clinical AIDS papers, licensed EMT, head of quiz bowl team, associate editor of science review, intel semifinalist in high school
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2004
Undergraduate college: Harvard
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 523
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 131,
C/P 130,
CARS 132
Overall GPA: 3.59
Science GPA: 3.68
Summary of Application Experience
3/25/05: And with the Wash U waitlist, the cycle is complete for now. A very disappointing process, with the sole bright spot of Maryland and its lucre. I'll probably go there unless Penn or Wash U lets me in off the waitlist. I wasn't as thrilled about Columbia and I'm not sure Pitt or Mount Sinai would be worth the 180k difference it would be over 4 years.
3/8/05: After initially being elated at being accepted at UMaryland with a huge scholarship, I was beset by 3 waitlists and a rejection (the latter from my top choice school - Duke) in a row. Fingers crossed for my #2 and #3 schools (Penn and Harvard respectively) which I should hear from this week.
So far one interview and one bizarre presecondary rejection from UCSF (one of my top choices). My letter went out very late from my house though (9/24 or so), so hopefully that won't impact things too much.
Applied, Rejected
University of California, San Francisco
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
No secondary coming from Harvard with a decent GPA and a 40 on the MCAT...I don't mean to sound arrogant, but huh?
User #2169 took the old MCAT and scored a 40 which is in the 100th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 523 on the updated scale which is in the 100th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #2169’s section scores as follows:
User #2169 scored a 14 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 131 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #2169 scored a 13 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 130 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #2169 scored a 13 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 132 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
