Brief Profile:
- ER volunteer (1.5 yrs) - ICU volunteer (0.5 yrs) - Pediatric ICU volunteer (1.0 yr) - EMT certification - First Responder certification - Summer Camp Counselor for children ages 3-17 ('07) - Graduate Student Council Member - Graduate Student tutor - Research in Biochemistry Lab (1 yr) - Senior Thesis in Biochem Lab (publication coming in late '08) - Dean's list award Fall/Winter/Spring quarters '06/'07 - Chancellor's list award senior year - Summer Internship at Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry ('04) - Work on hemostasis research at University while applying this year
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2008
Undergraduate college: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Institution: Loyola Univeristy Chicago
Area of Study: Biological/Life Sciences
Degree Obtained: M.A.
Total MCAT SCORE: 507
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 127,
C/P 126,
CARS 127
Overall GPA: 3.51
Science GPA: 3.46
Summary of Application Experience
I applied really late, unprepared, with few LORs, and mediocre GPA/MCAT in 2007. Since then I have obtained my Masters in Medical Sciences with a GPA of 3.8, I have gotten 4 new letters of recommendation for a total of 5 in a committee packet, I have had an awesome volunteer experience in a children's hospital (want to go into pediatrics now) and have been involved in student government and tutoring.
I really hope someone will let me in this time :-/
5-27-09: I am very happy with how things went this season...I have been accepted at two excellent schools and got plenty of interviews. I think the most important part of my application were my letters of recommendation (which some of the admissions committee member's read excerpts to me during my interviews) and maybe my stronger graduate GPA from my SMP. But in the end, that's just a guess.
To whomever might read this in the future: Keep working hard, keep up the hope, and one day things will fall in place.
User #10651 took the old MCAT and scored a 29 which is in the 73th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 507 on the updated scale which is in the 74th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #10651’s section scores as follows:
User #10651 scored a 10 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #10651 scored a 9 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 126 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #10651 scored a 10 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
