Hospital Volunteering: 150 hrs OR Summer Internship: 60 hrs Shadowing: 50 hrs Neuroscience Lab Research Assistant: 3 semesters Animal Behavior Lab: 1 semester Social Fraternity member Service Fraternity member Psi Chi: Psychology Honors Society Honors Student Association Honors Ambassador/Mentor Honors Thesis: The Effects of Psychosocial Stress on Disease Dean\'s Scholarship to undergrad
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2009
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 513
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 129,
C/P 129,
CARS 126
Overall GPA: 3.43
Science GPA: 3.30
Summary of Application Experience
My best advice is to actively pursue the schools you are interested, which should theoretically be all that you apply to.
Also good to know beforehand which schools have ridiculously long secondaries that you will not fill out.
Summary of Experience:
Too new of a school and interview set up is a bit more radical than others. Came down to whether I wanted to buy a plane ticket and hotel or not.
OedipusComplex took the old MCAT and scored a 32 which is in the 88th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 513 on the updated scale which is in the 89th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted OedipusComplex’s section scores as follows:
OedipusComplex scored a 11 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
OedipusComplex scored a 12 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
OedipusComplex 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.