Brief Profile:
4 1/2 Years as Registered Neurodiagnostic Technologist, Research in comparative biology and ion channel electrophysiology, small amounts of volunteer experience. Lab assistant for anatomy class, excavator for coroner's dept.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2003
Undergraduate college: California State University, Long Beach
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Institution: California State University, Long Beach
Area of Study: History/Humanities
Degree Obtained: BA
Total MCAT SCORE: 500
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 125,
C/P 124,
CARS 126
Overall GPA: 3.40
Science GPA: 3.20
Summary of Application Experience
The things I've learned:
-Do not give up. -Do not think you're not smart enough or that your numbers don't look so good. They will see beyond all of it if you lead them there. Stand out from all the cookie-cutter applicants. -Do not think going to an osteopathic school is any less of an accomplishment than going to an allopathic school. A doctor is a doctor is a doctor. I am grateful for the opportunity to do what I have wanted to do since I was 11, and couldn't care less about the two letters after my name.
Stay positive, apply early (again, APPLY EARLY) and act the part. Whatever you need to do to convince yourself that you are meant to be a physician, do it. Get yourself a nice suit, learn to speak in a physician's cadence, memorize the Merck Manual, etc., whatever you need to do to feel like a future physician. It will help you feel comfortable in interviews and adcoms will see that.
User #1551 took the old MCAT and scored a 25 which is in the 49th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 500 on the updated scale which is in the 50th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #1551’s section scores as follows:
User #1551 scored a 9 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 125 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #1551 scored a 7 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 124 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #1551 scored a 9 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 126 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
