Brief Profile:
-Strong Upward trend in GPA: 2.3 after first year of college. 3.81 overall and 3.87 BCPM since becoming pre-med -Dean's list 4 semesters in a row -60+ hours clinical volunteering in a cancer center -3 months genetic research and counting (working with grad student but will be taking the lead on the project because he is transferring to another school in the fall) -2 years membership in pre-med association, with 2 semesters officer positions -Working part-time throughout most of school (40+ hours/week during the summer, ~20-30 hours/week during school) -Snowboarding junkie (1-2 times/week during school and 3-4 times/week during intersession), Member of the local snowboard club (200+ members) -Fitness buff (~1.5 hours/night, 5 nights/week working out at the gym) -Handyman (Remodeled and brought up to code my entire house over a summer, and rebuilt a car myself from the ground up over the course of a year)
UPDATES: Still volunteering at the cancer center (100+ hours as of 11/07) Still working on research project (8 months on project and 4 months as lead as of 11/07) Various other volunteering events (St. Jude's Up 'til Dawn, blood drives, etc) Beginning to tutor bio, chem, o-chem, and math (Starting 11/07)
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2007
Undergraduate college: CSU, Chico
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 520
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 131,
C/P 129,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.41
Science GPA: 3.62
Summary of Application Experience
7/12/07 - Application verified by AMCAS after over 2 weeks submitted. Awaiting secondaries.
7/16/07 - Got the first secondaries today. Ohio State and MCW. Also got online status accounts at a few other schools.
8/06/07 - Been grinding away at the secondaries. Most are submitted by this point except the ones I received today. However, I have been having issues with contacting my advisor at school to get my LOR from him (3 weeks now since I tried to contact him), so I can't complete at any schools until I hear back from him.
8/24/07 - Finally got all my letters in and should be completing at most schools very soon. Hopefully I'll get some interview invites rolling in soon.
9/04/07 - First interview invite at Georgetown! Hopefully more to come soon.
10/09/07 - Got my first rejection today! It was pre-secondary and because I didn't fall into their catchment area. Not really a surprise. It's been relatively quiet for a while. Nothing has really happened in about a month.
12/07/07 - Got an email today saying I was accepted to SLU! I am so relieved that I don't have to go through this process again and that I don't have to spend the next few months strengthening my application for next year. I can just relax for once! Hopefully good news will keep coming and by the end I'll have choices to make about where I want to go to school.
KEY SR - Secondary Received SS - Secondary Submitted SC - Secondary Complete (All materials recieved by the school) WD - Withdrew II - Interview Invite Received I - Interview Date RR - Rejection Received WL - Waitlist Notification Received AR - Acceptance Received
Applied, Rejected
University of California, San Diego
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:
RR: 1/05 Snail Mail - I hate you California
User #8390 took the old MCAT and scored a 37 which is in the 98th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 520 on the updated scale which is in the 98th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #8390’s section scores as follows:
User #8390 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 #8390 scored a 12 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #8390 scored a 11 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
