Brief Profile:
-Varsity athlete (captain) -undergraduate coordinator for medical clinic for the homeless & underprivileged -neuroimaging research -Depression Education research project -trips to China & India to teach health education and English -exec board for overseeing university-wide volunteer organizations -shadowed a psychiatrist for 3 weeks on Mood Disorders Unit -Red Cross-certified CPR First Aid instructor -college tutor -2 summers teaching math to underprivileged youth
-finished classes in December '07, working in lab full time for the spring semester
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2007
Undergraduate college: Johns Hopkins University
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 517
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 127,
C/P 129,
CARS 132
Overall GPA: 3.36
Science GPA: 3.26
Summary of Application Experience
7/2/08 - Signed my lease, will be attending Vanderbilt.
3/20/08 - Apparently it's waitlist week? Mayo and Case Western waitlists. I don't really know if I should be happy or sad about it?
1/23/08 - Wow, the silence has been broken... GW interview invite!
12/27/07 - Senior Fall GPA: 3.68. I finished my classes this semester so I'll be working full time in my lab next semester. I sent the schools an update letter and an updated transcript with my new nice gpa on it.
12/10/07 - I am the queen of post-interview hold... Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, and Case Western. They're probably waiting for my grades from this semester, but it sucks cause I'd really like to go to any of those schools!
12/4/07 - Ahh RWJ and Vanderbilt and Jefferson. Def withdrawing from Jeff (too much $), but who knows where I'll end up?
11/7/07 - Got into Jefferson! I'm so excited! It's close to home and I really liked it there.
10/26/07 - finally broke the interview invite hiatus... now just need some acceptances! are Drexel and GW hopeless for holds? Are they just waiting to reject me?
9/25/07 - yay 6 interviews and it's not even october! I did not expect this at all
9/13/07 - rejection #2! well uchicago is the only school ranked lower than hopkins in the having fun list
9/10/07 - excitedly prepping for Vandy interview. Thrilled to death to get a Mayo invite as well! I think I'm one of the first Mayo invites at all?
8/28/07 - recommendations finally sent out! wow that took long enough!
8/22/07 - received secondary from Mayo (take that wake forest!)
8/18/07 - received Vandy secondary and FIRST INTERVIEW!
7/25/07 - pre-secondary rejection from wake forest. ouch.
7/13/07 - secondaries are flowing in. I've got to get a move on them as my LORs will be sent out next week. Almost finished Hopkins.
7/5/07 - amcas verified! added Vanderbilt and UChicago (I must be a glutton for punishment/secondary essays)
6/26/07 - submitted amcas, final transcript also arrived, waiting on verification
06/23/07 - about to submit amcas, pending final draft of my personal statement
12/26/06 - thank god for upward gpa trends (3.0 last sem, 3.5 this one)
11/25/06 - just realized that community college courses count towards gpa (taken during HS). wheee +.06 gpa points.
10/13/06 - got MCATs back last night, very pleased :). Hopefully my gpa will be improving this year (I still need to calculate my BCPM gpa), but I have a little leeway being at Hopkins & being an athlete.
Feel free to make suggestions of schools. I'm working on my list. specifically psychiatry/academic medicine