Application Cycle One: 06/05/2012

• Undergraduate college: UCLA
• Undergraduate Area of study: Psychology/Social Sciences

• Institution: University of Washington
• Area of Study: Biological/Life Sciences
• Degree Obtained: Molecular Bio/Biochemistry

• Total MCAT SCORE: 509
• MCAT Section Scores: B/B 130, C/P 127, CARS 124   Detailed Breakdown
• Overall GPA: 3.02
• Science GPA: 3.14

Summary of Application Experience

I'll add more when I have time, including my SOP.

For now, I'm a non-trad with 7 years of clinical experience working in rural and underserved populations. Gates Millennium Scholar. Experiences in Mental Health, Emergency Medicine and in Patient Safety. Some Neuroscience research - about 1.5 years worth. Never published. Undergrad GPA was a nightmare, so I did a post-bacc, which brought up my GPA just enough. While working on my post-bacc, I commuted for 3 hours every day to my university, and worked full time - so while my GPA is no where close to the norm, it is as a result of extenuating circumstances. My overall story is one of overcoming adversity, and that will later be explained when I post my SOP. My goal in pursuing medicine is to work with the underserved Latino population, and my experiences corroborate this.

More later...