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  • User #16739

  • Application cycles: 2008
  • Demographics: Male, East Asian
  • Home state: Ohio
  • Last Active: 10/24/2010
  • Brief Profile: Ice Skating since 1987
    Inline skating since 1995
    Tennis

    Volunteering:
    Hillcrest Hospital: Physical Transport (1998-1999)
    Cleveland Clinic: Emergency Department (2001)
    University Hospitals of Cleveland: Children\'s Activities Center Supervisor (2004)
    The Free Clinic of Cleveland: History Taker (2008)

    Shadowing:
    Anesthiologist (one day)
    Otolaryngology [Peds] (one month)
    Also got to see neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, orthopedic surgery
    Urologist(one day)
    Cardiologist (one day)

    Research:
    Too much
    Huntington Medical Research Institutes; Neural Engineering Department (2000, Summer)
    Case Western Reserve University; Electronics Design Center (2001, Summer)
    California Institute of Technology; Senior Thesis on Artificial Neural Networks (2002-2003)
    Case Western Reserve University; Biomedical Engineering; Neural Control (2003-2007)
    Many others

    Publications:
    IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering (Jan 2009)
    Masters Thesis (May 2007)


    Awards:
    Case ShowCASE research symposium: Honorable Mention (2007)


    Conferences:
    Biomedical Engineering Society; Abstract accepted (2007)
    Engineering in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences[?]; Abstract accepted -- but only with the advisor\'s name on it; work based on my Thesis work
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2008

    • Undergraduate college: California Institute of Technology
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Engineering/Technology
    • Institution: Case Western Reserve University
    • Area of Study: Engineering/Technology
    • Degree Obtained: M.Sc.
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 519
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 130, C/P 130, CARS 129  
    • Overall GPA: 2.93
    • Science GPA: 2.70

    Summary of Application Experience

    Some afterthoughts:
    1. APPLY EARLY
    2. OH residency helped a lot interviews, for the most part. Not sure what happened with OSU. I liked their school when I interviewed there last year.
    3. CWRU was probably because I am an alumnus there. However, I wish I did better in the interview. Getting an invite here was a shocker.
    4. UC acceptance is probably purely off the MMI format there (which is new). If I weren\'t an engineer and weren\'t used to dissecting ideas and scenarios, I think I\'d be waitlisted in all three schools I interviewed in.

    But in all seriousness, if I can get into medical school with my crappy GPA, anyone else with a bad GPA can get in. You just need a strong MCAT to balance it out (the great equalizer) and involvement with medicine, preferably in research. However, if you do go for a graduate degree, aim for a program that gets you out in two years, instead of four.

    Applied

    University of Vermont
    Ohio State University
    Brown University
    University of Toledo
    Wright State University
    Cleveland Clinic Medical School

    Accepted

    University of Cincinnati

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