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  • User #5508

  • Application cycles: 2006
  • Demographics: Female, East Asian
  • Home state: Unknown
  • Brief Profile: Most of my activities were jobs because I had to support myself. My last 2 years of college were done while working full-time and carrying a full course load (3 courses/sem), plus had a lot of family and medical problems so my GPA's not that great.

    Work/Research
    - Research assistant at department of paediatrics, National University of Singapore full-time since 2003
    - Did clinical/translational leukemia research as part of clinical trial, also had independent small projects
    - 1 first author publication, couple more in the writing; 2 poster presentations at international conferences; 1 oral presentation award at local conference
    - Represented lab in international quality control rounds
    - Supervisor for high school lab attachment students
    - Laboratory assistant at pathology lab full-time for 7mths 2002
    - Patient services assistant at hospital outpatient clinic full-time for 6mths 2001

    Volunteer
    - Crisis helpline duty 3-4hrs per week, 1 overnight per mth, on-call once a mth for suicide survivors support
    - Pet therapy at old folk's home/mental hospital/children's home 3hrs per mth
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2006

    • Undergraduate college: Central Queensland University
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 507
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 127, C/P 125, CARS 129  
    • Overall GPA: 3.60
    • Science GPA: 3.70

    Summary of Application Experience

    Aug MCAT was my first so I wanted to wait and see how I did before deciding which schools to apply to. I didn't have much time to study though because I was working; shows in my PS score. :( I'm hoping my research will make up for it at research-heavy schools, as I have a great LOR from my PI.

    Submitted 15 Oct but due to miscommunication, transcripts only received 30 Oct, finally verified 7 Dec. Submitted secondaries as soon as they were received, now the interminable waiting...

    Have interviewed at the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School; I think it went pretty well but they're only accepting 25 students for the pioneer batch. Counting down till March!

    No applications have been submitted yet during this cycle.

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