User #7749
Application cycles: 2008
Demographics: Female, Caucasian
Home state: Michigan

Brief Profile: Spartan Marching Band - plan on 4 years, hopefully squad leader senior year
Spartan Brass (pep band) - also plan on 4 years
Volunteering at local hospital this summer (will continue this from here on out)
Looking into doing research for Fall 2007-Spring 2008 semesters
Will definitely do research/senior thesis in psychology Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Honors College
Dean's List all semesters except 1st

Activities I plan/hope to get involved in next fall:

The Listening Ear - suicide hotline (wanted to this year but came down with bronchitis during required orientation sessions)
FAAN (Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis) Teen Advisory Group - I've had a severe milk allergy since birth
TA for a psychology course Spring 2008
Teach or Tutor ACT/SAT for Kaplan

I realize that I'm starting this waaaay early, but I figure it'll help me to keep things organized and get a head start on everything.

I'm planning on taking the MCAT in either April or May 2008 after (or toward the end of, if I go with April) taking two science-intensive semesters. I just recently became pre-med, so the only science I've done is gen chem (got transfer credit from dual enrollment during high school) and I'm taking intro to physics I this summer. For Fall 2007 I'll be taking both introductory bio courses and their corresponding labs, organic chem I, human physio I, and marching band (16 credits); for Spring 2008 I'll be taking physics II along with the physics I lab, organic chem II, biochem I, and honors intro to psychology (after taking 5 other psych classes, I'm finally going to get around to taking it!), and Spartan Brass (15 credits). Also, about the GPA: I ended up with a 2.77 GPA at the end of my first semester. I sort of had trouble adjusting to the new college thing my first semester, and it didn't help that I had to deal with an incredibly time-consuming and demanding EC (marching band) along with a 16-credit courseload and early morning classes. Plus I kind of went in thinking 'oh cool I think I'll try to overachieve' and signed up for all these upper-level courses which was really pretentious of me and totally backfired, because I just couldn't handle all the work (all my classes required attendance, participation, massive amounts of reading, and writing multiple papers...I didn't take a single multiple choice exam until my second semester). Anyway, I've obviously brought my average up quite a bit in the two semesters since then, and at the end of the current semester I'm anticipating ~3.6. If you take my first semester out of the picture I've got about a 3.85, and if you get rid of my entire freshman year I've got a 3.99...so there's definitely an upward trend. As for the MCAT - I tend to test well (and of course I'm going to study like crazy, anyway), but I don't want to be unrealistic...so I'm setting 'goal' of 40+ (which I realize is probably too high and is precisely why I'm setting that goal) and hoping to end up with a 35+. As it gets closer to the test I'm sure I'll have a much better idea of where I can expect to be at, but for now that's just where I'd ideally like to be and am currently working at being. Any comments are completely welcome and appreciated.

// Applications //

Application Cycle One: 2008

Undergraduate college: Michigan State University
Undergraduate Area of study: Psychology/Social Sciences

Overall GPA: 3.51
Science GPA: 3.93

Summary of Application Experience

These are the schools that I'm currently considering applying to. Those that I'm certain I'll be applying to are:

-Michigan State University
-University of Michigan
-Wayne State University
-University of Pittsburgh
-University of Pennsylvania
-University of Chicago

It's probably pretty obvious from my list of schools, but I'm trying to stay within the Midwest/New England regions or thereabouts. Any suggestions are welcome and encouraged.

Applied

Yale University

Wayne State University

Vanderbilt University

University of Wisconsin

University of Vermont

University of Pittsburgh

University of Pennsylvania

University of Michigan

University of Illinois

University of Cincinnati

University of Chicago

Rush Medical College

Pennsylvania State University

Ohio State University

Northwestern University

New York University

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Michigan State University

Medical College of Wisconsin

Mayo Medical School

Loyola University Chicago

Georgetown University

Rosalind Franklin University

Duke University

Dartmouth College

Cornell University

Columbia University

Brown University

MD Applicants

User #7749

// Applications //

Application Cycle One: 2008

Summary of Application Experience

Applied

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