Application Cycle One: 2006

• Undergraduate college: Columbia College
• Undergraduate Area of study: Computing and Information Science

• Total MCAT SCORE: 517
• MCAT Section Scores: B/B 130, C/P 128, CARS 129   Detailed Breakdown
• Overall GPA: 3.94
• Science GPA: 3.92

Summary of Application Experience

An early acceptance at NYU took a lot of pressure off of me in terms of knowing that I would be at a good school in a city (which was an important concern for me).

U Chicago is a great option, I think I will go there over NYU since the student seem to be really happy. They sent me scrubs in the mail, yay!

I had given up on getting interviews at many of the top schools and then Yale, Harvard, and Duke all gave me interviews in February!

3/18-- waitlisted at Columbia- this doesn't bode well for my chances elsewhere...

3/19 Duke let me in!

3/20 Waitlisted at cornell and rejected at Harvard...

3/26 Upenn and Yale both waitlisted me as well...It's nice that I didn't get flat out rejected but sad that two waitlists doesn't equal an acceptance.

4/10 Rejected from UCSF- a big let down but also a relief since I can stop checking my mail everyday like a maniac. I am still waiting to hear from the Berkeley/UCSF Joint Program though...

4/17 Called the Berkeley program since I still hadn't heard anything, add another waitlist to my collection

4/20 Withdrew from NYU

5/9 Generous scholarship from Pritzker- I will revisit next week to make sure I really like it (I definitely loved my interview day)

5/14 Withdrew from Einstein, Northwestern and Duke and am headed to Chicago in the fall!

5/29 Was placed in (upper half) of tier 2 for Yale's waitlist

6/5 Got accepted to Yale!