Brief Profile:
- Graduate GPA: 4.0 - a total of 4 Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarships - Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) - $15000 - Ph.D. Distinction Award (top 5% of the level of study) - 6 First-author publications - Platform presentations in conferences - TA/Lab-coordinator for biology courses - 1 Year of Volunteering in Princess Margaret Hospital - 3 incredibly strong letters of recommendations from professors - Tutoring Highschool students, Practicing Martial arts, etc...
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2008
Undergraduate college: York University
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Institution: York University
Area of Study: Biological/Life Sciences
Degree Obtained: Ph.D.
Total MCAT SCORE: 511
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 129,
CARS 123
Overall GPA: 3.73
Science GPA: 3.78
Summary of Application Experience
The whole application process is ridiculous (and stressful)... After submitting my AMCAS application in September, it turned out that York University did not forward my graduate transcript (and so was rejected by University of Ottawa)... So I was delayed and my AMCAS was completed sometime in mid-october... Soon after I submitted the secondaries and then, hell was unleashed... one rejection after the other. Waste of moneyyyyyy...
It seems that Medical schools don't care much about the Ph.D. degree or at least that is what my profile shows... I expected to do better in this application cycle but I was wrong...
Well anyway... I am happy that I eventually got one acceptance...
Would be happy to read your comments/suggestions...
User #17798 took the old MCAT and scored a 31 which is in the 83th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 511 on the updated scale which is in the 85th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #17798’s section scores as follows:
User #17798 scored a 12 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 130 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #17798 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.
User #17798 scored a 7 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 123 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
