Brief Profile:
Bachelor of Science - Business Management, Finance emphasis Dec. 2009
Work full time during summers (50-60 hrs/wk) (Landscaping and other part-time jobs) Part-time work during school (20-25 hrs/wk)
Volunteer Finance Tutor - 2 years Red Cross First Aid and CPR Demonstrator - 1 year Volunteer Physics Tutor - 1 year Shadow Plastic Surgeon - 8 hours Intramural Soccer - 1 year
Quick Bio:
My Freshman year I had no clue what I wanted to do and consequently did very poorly in some pretty key classes for my BCPM GPA. It was just before my Sophomore year that I felt medicine would be most appropriate for me and decided that pulling my grades up would be the key to even having a prayer of acceptance. So, I\'ve managed to pull my GPA up from a 3.14 to a 3.58 (which AMCAS interpreted all those grades as a cumulative 3.56) over the last three years. I have no other physicians in my family whatsoever, so I have had to ask friends and advisors consistently for help in knowing how best to approach all of this and how to determine that medicine is definitely for me. How much I have to work on a regular basis has limited my ability for extracurriculars that I would like to do.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2009
Undergraduate college: Brigham Young University
Undergraduate Area of study:
Total MCAT SCORE: 511
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 127,
C/P 128,
CARS 127
Overall GPA: 3.56
Science GPA: 3.25
Summary of Application Experience
MCAT Round 1: Jan 30, 2009. 27R (PS: 8, VR: 8, BS: 11) Not good MCAT Round 2: May 2, 2009. 31S (PS: 11, VR: 10, BS: 10) So BS dropped a little, but I'll take it AMCAS Complete: 6/17/09 - AMCAS Fees: $315 UVA Secondary: 7/10/09 - UVA Fee: $80 EVMS Seondary: 7/15/09 - EVMS Fee: $100 VCU Secondary: 7/20/09 - VCU Fee: $80 WVU Secondary: 8/7/09 - WVU Fee: $100 VCU Status Update: 8/11/09, File sent to subcommitte for further review...oi. Not good news. EVMS Interview Invite: 8/12/09, Interview set for 9/2/09. :D
