Brief Profile:
Volunteering, Shadowing, Lots of Research, National Presentations, Lots of Academic Awards
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 05/31/2010
Undergraduate college: Top Northeast Liberal Arts College
Undergraduate Area of study: Physical Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 516
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 129,
C/P 129,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.75
Science GPA: 3.75
Summary of Application Experience
4/27/11 - Going to Rochester! Cheaper than the private schools that I was waitlisted at and it is an incredible school that I would have chosen over everywhere I interviewed but Duke probably. So excited to move to Rochester in August! And very glad that this exhausting process is over.
12/15/10 - Updated to show stats, now that I\'ve been accepted! (which actually happened 2 months ago!)
6/1/10 - Not applying through TMDSAS but submitted AMCAS today!
5/4/10 - Opened up AMCAS. This is for real.
5/3/10 - Opened up TMDSAS for Southwestern and Houston, changed stats for anonymity.
4/14/10 - Finished up my (massive) school list, I really want to apply broadly, I certainly have a few top choices, and I might pare it down in the next month.
Summary of Experience:
(Withdrew after U of R acceptance) - Haven\'t heard particularly great things about the school, wouldn\'t want to interview here.
Summary of Experience:
Not very sad about the rejection, I would have withdrawn from the interview if I hadn\'t already booked flights and hotel by the time I got into U of R, I probably didn\'t show that much interest in the school during my interview.
A nice interview day, school seemed very relaxed. Dorms were a decent addition.
A very nice school, westchester is a nice county that I would definitely be really excited to live in.
Summary of Experience:
Rejection was tough, Duke was a dream, but I was equally happy at Rochester, and it looks like that is where I will end up
So excited about the interview, I cannot wait.
What an amazing school, everyone involved with Duke was so impassioned about how great the school was. The third year sounds great, an MPH at Chapel Hill would be really cool especially without having any extra time. All in all an extremely impressive interview day.
Waitlisted at the Maine Track, kind of disappointed, I thought that my interviews went really well and the program was really neat. We will see how long I\'m willing to wait, Rochester is cheaper and more highly ranked than Tufts, so I would probably have leaned towards Rochester anyway.
Maine Track program was pretty awesome, two years in in Boston essentially, but then the idea of a longitudinal clerkship in Maine sounded really awesome. And Maine is really an awesome place, I wouldn\'t mind moving there.
Maine Track Interview, I am very excited, Maine Medical Center is really cool and essentially exactly the situation where I want to work for the rest of my career. Maine is a great state too!
Summary of Experience:
(Withdrew following U of R Acceptance) Waitlisted, I\'ll stay on it for now, I really was surprised by how much I liked it here. LI is great, would be an ideal situation, probably my favorite of the SUNYs just based on reputation/location
Summary of Experience:
(Withdrew following University of Rochester acceptance) Wasn\'t a huge fan of the location and the curriculum sounded very standard with no real clinical exposure early on. I think they know this as they are instituting a new curriculum next year. Also they gave us lunch 1h30 after we were supposed to.
(Deferred Decision)
First interview! Would love to live in Brooklyn for 4 years.
Great school, a really neat location, the idea of living in NYC is really exciting. They have a few neat programs and the students seem very well supported.
Waitlisted, how the next month progresses will decide how I want to deal with this, but its nice to be in already at Rochester, makes this a lot easier to stomach
Great Interview Day, the new curriculum sounds really cool, an extra 6 months in the clinic or doing research is great. Also the interview was super laid-back.
Awesome! Manhattan is pretty much my ideal place to live (beside the cost) and NYU is a great great place to study! Plus purple is the colour of royalty.
Amazingly excited, I love Rochester and U of R and Strong and everything else about the school!
Interview day was great, really blown away by the school, the students, and everything else there. Cheap cost of living, close to home, what an incredible school.
Summary of Experience:
What a place, first interview, acceptance on the first day, an awesome day!
School looks amazing on the website, the program looks so cool, I am so excited to see it in person!
The interview was quite impressive, the school seemed really amazing even though there are certainly still a few kinks to work out, but that is expected at any young medical school. The interview style was really cool, I wish more schools would focus on that style I think that it results in more quantitative results. All in all, I could definitely see myself here, it fits what I want to do with my career quite well.
BigEast55 took the old MCAT and scored a 34 which is in the 94th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 516 on the updated scale which is in the 94th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted BigEast55’s section scores as follows:
BigEast55 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.
BigEast55 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.
BigEast55 scored a 11 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
