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  • User #6682

  • Application cycles: 2006
  • Demographics: Female, 39, East Asian
  • Home state: British Columbia
  • Last Active: 12/14/2010
  • Brief Profile: For my expense breakdown (including travel recommendations) and impression of each school, please refer to the bottom.

    Age:
    I entered university at the age of 15, so I had 5 years in undergrad to explore different career options. Hopefully age doesn\'t weigh against me.

    Citizenship: Canadian (with no PR status in the US)

    Research:
    - 1 summer in an academic physiology lab with a NSERC scholarship
    - 2 summers in an academic pharmacology lab (2 papers)
    - 8 months of internship at the Virology Department at Roche Pharmaceuticals, Palo Alto

    Clinical:
    - 2 summers in a clinical oral cancer program at BC Cancer Agency
    - 4 months of volunteering in the coronary care unit at a hospital in Beijing
    - volunteered at local hospitals and health organizations (extended care, out-patient pharmacy, information resource line)

    Extracurricular:
    - child abuse prevention educator for Red Cross
    - Chinese-English student newspaper editor
    - Grade 10 in piano
    - Bronze Medallion in swimming & first-aid
    - reading & creative writing in English and Chinese (nothing published, but whatever, I do what I love)
  • // Applications //

    Please visit the SDN pre-medical forums for the blog.

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