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  • User #18099

  • Application cycles: 2009
  • Demographics: Male, 39, Caucasian
  • Home state: Virginia
  • Last Active: 02/21/2010
  • 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

    Applied, Rejected

    University of Kentucky
    Vanderbilt University

    Application Complete, Rejected

    University of Virginia
    Virginia Commonwealth University

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted

    Eastern Virginia Medical School
    West Virginia University

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