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  • User #8426

  • Application cycles: 2007
  • Demographics: Female, Caucasian
  • Home state: Texas
  • Brief Profile: Rising senior at UT-Austin...

    *1 year undergrad psych research in Dr. Langlois' lab
    *4 years as an officer in Plan II Students' Association
    *3 years SAT Instructor for the Princeton Review - now an MCAT verbal teacher
    *spent one summer working for/shadowing neurologist at UT-H
    *volunteer at Austin/Travis County Communicable Disease Clinic, 1 summer
    *studied abroad in Kenya in fall 2006; did independent research on malaria and the use of mosquito nets
    *volunteer at Eastside Community Connection, 1 semester that will be continued this year
    *Public Health Internship; BIO 361P on TB and Type II diabetes
    *continuing public health research this summer in Brownsville, TX: border health/TB/Type II diabetes
    *will be Public Relations Chair in Society of Public Health Students this year

    Scholarships:
    most notably the Larry Temple Scholarship Endowment
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2007

    • Undergraduate college: University of Texas at Austin
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
    • Institution: Plan II Honors
    • Area of Study: History/Humanities
    • Degree Obtained: BS/BA
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 523
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 131, C/P 130, CARS 132  
    • Overall GPA: 3.95
    • Science GPA: 3.96

    Summary of Application Experience

    I'm going to Hopkins. Holy cow.


    4/21 Duke waitlist - which means rejection, as I shall not remain on it.
    3/27 FINALLY Penn released decisions. Waitlist. Gonna drop this like it's hot, I have enough decisons to make already!
    3/26 Tuition and fees scholarship to Baylor! Holy shit I could be a doctor and have no debt. None. This makes everything even more complicated!! (Best complication ever.)
    3/22 Official Harvard rejection...still haven't heard officially from Duke, but it's not an acceptance, that's for sure. Only Penn left thank God!
    3/19 Hells yeah, JHopkins!
    3/5 Got the official finger from 2 more Cali schools. No love from the West Coast! That's cool though.
    3/3 Columbia!!!!!!!!!
    1/18 Baylor acceptance!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYY
    12/20 - Cornell acceptance!!!!!!! OMFG I can't believe it!
    12/10 I thought I was done...interview to JHopkins, 1/25!
    11/24 Accepted to Emory!!! So excited.
    11/16 Accepted to UTHSCSA. Will decline this one immeadiately while I decide between UTSW, UTH, and UTMB.
    11/15 Accepted to UTMB!
    11/15 12:03am Accepted to UTSW
    12:04 am Accepted to UTH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
    11/3 Accepted to Pittsburgh!
    10/20 Rejected from UCSF. Lamezor. I tried...
    10/18 Interview for Harvard! 11/30
    10/15 Accepted to Michigan!!!
    10/12 Interview for Duke!
    10/3 Put 'on hold for possible interview' at UCSD. Still crossing my fingers...
    9/28 Interview for Penn! 11/2
    9/26 Interview for Emory! 10/26
    9/17 Interview for Columbia! 10/12
    9/13 Email Columbia and mention that I'll be in town for Cornell...
    9/12 Interview for Cornell! 10/11
    8/29 Interview for Vandy! still tbd
    8/24 Interview for Tufts! (putting off until next semester)
    8/11 Interview for UTSW! 9/8
    8/10 Interview for UTH! 8/24
    8/9 Interview for Baylor! 9/7
    7/27 Interview for UTHSCSA! 8/27
    7/20 Interview for Pittsburgh! 9/28
    7/18 Interview for UMich! 9/21
    7/16 AMCAS finally verified; I'm drowning in secondaries.
    7/10 Haven't turned in a single secondary yet, mainly because I'm desperately trying to get my LORs in.
    7/6 Was offered an interview by UTMB for 8/17.

    Applied, Rejected

    University of California, San Francisco

    Application Complete, Rejected

    University of Southern California
    University of California, San Diego
    Stanford University
    Yale University

    Application Complete, Withdrew

    University of Chicago

    Attended Interview, Rejected

    Harvard University

    Attended Interview, Withdrew

    Vanderbilt University
    Tufts University

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted

    Duke University
    University of Pennsylvania

    Accepted

    Cornell University
    University of Texas, Southwestern
    University of Texas, Houston
    Columbia University
    University of Michigan
    Long School of Medicine - University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio
    University of Texas, Galveston
    University of Pittsburgh
    Baylor College
    Emory University
    Johns Hopkins University

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