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  • User #14162

  • Application cycles: 2008
  • Demographics: Female, Caucasian
  • Home state: California
  • Brief Profile: -full ride undergrad scholarship
    -Honors College, requiring Honors GE courses
    -major in chem and minor in art
    -volunteered for 1 year at children's hospital
    -various other activities with children/medicine
    -EMT courses and got certified
    -live in care taker for 3 months for a terminally ill 8 year old girl in a vegatative state
    -research for a program in the emergency room at a hospital for 1 year
    -my own research on glucose metabolism in fish in a biology lab for over 2 and a half years
    -presented at conferences and am working on publishing at least 2 manuscripts
    -worked 20-40 hours a week tutoring during undergrad
    -leadership activities included clubs and President of the Chemistry club for 1 year, and Kids Zone Coordinator for Vintage days (a huge community based fair put on by my college purely on volunteers and donations) for 1 year
    -I have also shadowed a few doctors
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2008

    • Undergraduate college: California State University, Fresno
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Physical Sciences
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 500
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 125, C/P 127, CARS 122  
    • Overall GPA: 3.49
    • Science GPA: 3.39

    Summary of Application Experience

    This is my second year applying and I've taken the MCAT 3 times and haven't done well on any of them, after the first time I just stressed myself out and couldn't concentrate on anything. (My last MCAT score was 9PS, 8VS, 8BS P). I feel like I have enough extracurricular activities to get me in but my MCAT score is holding me back. Really hope I get in.. I don't think it's good to take the MCAT more than 3 times..? And this process is getting expensive!

    Process:

    AMCAS was certified on 8/4 and AACOMAS was certified on 8/27.

    10/15 - all secondaries were out by mid Oct. They were sent out as completed between 8/5 and 10/15

    10/21 - first interview invite at TOURO CA in vallejo by mail. Close to home, possibly only chance of staying in CA. We'll see how it goes!

    Applied

    University of California, San Diego
    University of California, Irvine
    University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, Davis

    Applied, Rejected

    University of California, San Francisco

    Application Complete

    Tufts University
    Temple University
    Pennsylvania State University
    New York Medical College
    Loyola University Chicago
    Jefferson Medical College
    Georgetown University
    Howard University
    Rosalind Franklin University
    Drexel University
    Albany Medical College
    Philadelphia College - Philadelphia
    Touro University - Harlem

    Application Complete, Rejected

    SUNY Upstate

    Application Complete, Withdrew

    University of Pittsburgh
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    Meharry Medical College
    Creighton University
    Des Moines University
    A.T. Still University - Mesa

    Attended Interview

    Arizona College of Mid. University

    Accepted

    Touro University - Mare Island

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