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  • User #8772

  • Application cycles: 2008
  • Demographics: Female, East Asian
  • Home state: California
  • Brief Profile: The regular stuff. PM me if you're interested in details.
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2008

    • Undergraduate college: Brown University
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 523
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 131, C/P 132, CARS 129  
    • Overall GPA: 3.88
    • Science GPA: 4.00

    Summary of Application Experience

    LEGEND:
    RS: received secondary
    SS: submitted secondary
    C: complete
    II: interview invitation
    I: interview date
    R: rejected
    WL: waitlisted
    H: hold
    A: accepted

    TIMELINE:
    7/13/07 took mcat
    8/15/07 started ED volunteering
    8/22/07 started working on PS
    9/5/07 temporarily gave up on PS
    9/19/07 started LBNL job
    5/16/08 started AMCAS application
    5/21/08 ordered transcripts
    5/23/08 UC Berkeley transcript sent
    5/28/08 Brown transcript sent
    6/4/08 UC Berkeley transcript received (9 business days)
    6/5/08 Brown transcript received (7 business days)
    7/2/08 submitted AMCAS
    7/7/08 submitted WashU secondary
    7/24/08 AMCAS verified!! =)
    7/24/08 submitted BU secondary
    7/25/08 my first non-automatic secondary--UCSF! YAY
    7/25/08 my first interview invite-- UMich!!!!! YAY!
    7/25/08 submitted UPenn secondary
    7/28/08 submitted UCSF secondary
    7/28/08 submitted Yale secondary
    7/28/08 submitted Harvard secondary
    7/29/08 submitted Jefferson secondary
    7/31/08 LOR's finally uploaded to Virtual Evals!!
    7/31/08 my first completed school-- UPenn!!! YAY.
    8/1/08 AMCAS received my LORs
    8/1/08 Jefferson and Pitt complete
    8/3/08 submitted Northwestern secondary
    8/3/08 submitted UCI secondary
    8/4/08 NW complete
    8/5/08 submitted Pritz secondary
    8/5/08 interview invite to Pitt!! =D
    8/6/08 submitted UCLA secondary
    8/7/08 submmitted Johns Hop secondary
    8/11/08 submitted Tufts secondary
    8/11/08 submitted Stanford secondary
    8/14/08 submitted USC secondary
    8/19/08 submitted UCSD secondary
    8/25/08 interview invite to UCSD!! that was fast!! =D
    8/26/08 interview invite to Tufts!
    8/27/08 interview invite to Brown!
    8/28/08 rejection from BU. First one, it hurts! =(
    8/30/08 rejection from Pritz (they probably rejected me ages ago, but I didnt know i was supposed to check the status page)
    9/4/08 submitted Colorado
    9/4/08 interview invite to UCLA!!! YESS!! YESSSSS!!!!!!
    9/12/08 interview at UMich. So much nicer than I ever expected, it seems like a GREAT school!!!
    9/12/08 interview invite to UCI!
    9/16/08 submitted OHSU
    9/16/08 interview invite to WashU!
    9/18/08 interview invite to NW!
    9/18/08 interview invite to Vandy! (shouldve come on 8/16)
    9/20/08 submitted Vandy! LAST SCHOOL!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    9/22/08 Pitt interview!
    9/23/08 I bought myself a flash for finishing all my secondaries! Wheeee!
    9/24/08 interview invite to Colorado!
    9/26/08 complete at OHSU!! I am now complete at every school!
    9/29/08 UCLA interview! that was a little scary!
    10/6/08 UCSD interview! nicest interviewers so far!
    10/15/08 UMich waitlist =( so sad about this one (talked to the office, they said 20 out of 400 got in off the WL last year.. eek)
    10/21/08 Tufts interview!
    10/23/08 Brown interview!
    10/27/08 Colorado interview!
    10/28/08 NW interview!
    10/30/08 Pitt acceptance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM GONNA BE A DR!!!!!
    10/30/08 Tufts acceptance!!!!! HOLY CRAP I LOVE TODAY.
    11/4/08 UCSD acceptance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    11/26/08 Colorado acceptance!! =D
    11/26/08 UCSF rejection. =(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
    12/2/08 withdrew from UC Irvine. Thought a lot about it, and in the end, I didn't think I'd love Irvine a ton more than San Diego, so I decided to save the money and time and withdraw. Still feels weird though...
    12/4/08 hold from Vanderbilt. Man that was such a nice school, i hope they still consider me!
    12/29/08 USC rejection. I'm ok with it, I would have had to take a class to matriculate!
    1/29/09 Stanford rejection. This one sucks =(
    1/23/09 checked UPenn website, deferred pre-interview. who knows when this actually happened.
    2/21/09 waitlist from UCLA. =(((((((
    2/24/09 UPenn rejection (I checked their site, and interviews are over and I didn't get one... so that's a rejection!)
    3/9/09 OHSU rejection
    3/9/09 UMich waitlist--bottom tier (ie rejection)
    3/16/09 Harvard rejection
    3/26/09 UPenn rejection
    4/7/09 withdrew from NW
    4/17/09 Johns Hopkins rejection
    5/14/09 Colorado withdrawal
    5/14/09 Tufts withdrawal
    5/14/09 UPitt withdrawal
    6/1/09 Brown withdrawal
    6/1/09 UMich withdrawal
    6/1/09 UCLA acceptance, holy holy shit
    6/8/09 Vanderbilt withdrawal
    6/8/09 UCSD withdrawal

    MONEY:
    Kaplan course: $1749 (ouch)
    Berkeley physics class: $1240 (didnt fit into undergrad schedule)
    MCAT: $210
    plane ticket for committee letter: $334
    transcript from Brown: $12.50
    transcript from Berkeley: $15
    AMCAS: $820
    Brown processing, $3/school: $69
    WashU secondary: $50
    BU secondary: $100
    UPenn secondary: $80
    UCSF secondary: $60
    Yale secondary: $85
    Harvard secondary: $85
    Jefferson secondary: $80
    UMich plane ticket: $310
    UMich housing: $75 (split room, Inn at the Michigan League)
    UMich secondary: $85
    Brown secondary: $95
    Pitt secondary: $75
    NW secondary: $75
    UCI secondary: $60
    Pritz secondary: $75
    UPitt flight: $365
    UCLA secondary: $60
    Johns Hop secondary: $75
    Tufts secondary: $105
    Stanford secondary: $80
    USC secondary: $90
    UCSD secondary: $60
    UCD secondary: $60
    UCSD flight: $147
    interview clothes: $497.44 (2 suits+tailoring)
    Colorado secondary: $100
    UCLA flight: $158.01
    UMich transporation: $41
    UMich dogsitting: $22
    OHSU secondary: $100
    Pitt housing: $0 (student host!)
    Pitt transportation: $15
    UCLA housing: $0 (martin!)
    WashU/Vandy flight: $392.59
    Vandy secondary: $50
    UCSD housing: $0 (student host!)
    Pitt/UCLA/UCSD/WashU/Vandy dogsitting: $94.12
    Colorado/NW flight: $372.50
    Tufts/Brown flight: 389.51
    UCLA transportation: $9.95
    WashU housing: $0 (they set up a place for us to stay, I LOVE them!)
    Vandy housing: $0 (student host!)
    UCSD transportation: $12.60
    Tufts/Brown housing: $0 (jesse!)
    NW housing: $0 (student host)
    WashU transportaion: $13
    Vandy transportation: $35
    Tufts/Brown transportation: $63
    Tufts/Brown dogsitting:$180
    Colorado/NW transportation: $43
    Colorado/NW dogsitting: $20
    Colorado housing: $0 (student host!)
    NW housing: $0 (student host!)
    Tufts deposit: $100
    Colorado deposit: $200
    UCLA transcript from brown: $6.25
    UCLA transcript from berkeley: $15

    Total: $9161.97

    Thoughts:
    9/17/08--I think I applied to too many schools. People scared me so much by saying that it was possible to apply to 15 and get in nowhere, so I stayed on the safe side and applied to 23 (which my premed advisor STILL didn't like--he told me to apply to more safeties!). While I'm happy and incredibly thankful that I dont have the opposite problem, interviews are starting to get too expensive and time consuming (I'm taking so much unpaid leave!). Not sure if I should skip some interviews now, or if I should just suck it up and go to them.

    10/5/08--Things are going pretty well! Getting excited and nervous for Oct 15th, which is the first possible day to get an acceptance!!

    10/7/08--4 down, 7 to go, 6 in the next 3 weeks. I think I might collapse from exhaustion. I'm not sure how I'm going to do it, honestly... I'm so tired from just travelling and doing 1 interview, how am I going to do 2 in a row, and repeat that 3 weeks in a row? Oh well, I guess I'll just do the best I can, and that's that! Maybe the adrenaline will keep me going =)

    10/15/08--sigh, waitlist from UMich. =( =( =(

    10/30/08--AMAZING! 2 acceptances!!! Tufts and Pitt, I'M GONNA BE A DR!

    6/8/09 I KNOW I'M GOING TO UCLA!! Finally done with the whole process, what an AMAZING feeling!

    Application Complete

    Yale University
    Jefferson Medical College

    Application Complete, Rejected

    Johns Hopkins University
    Boston University
    University of California, San Francisco
    Harvard University
    Stanford University
    University of Chicago
    University of California, Davis
    University of Southern California
    Oregon Health & Science University

    Attended Interview, Rejected

    Washington University in St. Louis

    Attended Interview, Withdrew

    University of California, Irvine

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Rejected

    University of Pennsylvania

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Withdrew

    Vanderbilt University
    University of Michigan
    Northwestern University
    Brown University

    Accepted off Waitlist

    University of California, Los Angeles

    Accepted

    University of Pittsburgh
    Tufts University
    University of California, San Diego
    University of Colorado

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