Brief Profile:
- MCB-BMB (honors), Public policy minor, graduated a semester early - Total 2 years (~100 hrs) hospital volunteering - No shadowing whatsoever (seemed like a waste of time to me) - 2.5 yrs research (synthetic biology) at lbnl - 1 yr public health research - AAHS (3yr), MCBcDNA(4yr) - Calteach (1yr) - Cal Fencing (4yr) - Interned at genomics startup (summer), biofuels startup (part time spring), and a nonprofit watchdog org (one year part time).
^That pretty much sums up my college experience
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 06/16/2009
Undergraduate college: UC Berkeley
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 520
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 131,
C/P 129,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.96
Science GPA: 3.92
Summary of Application Experience
Things went smoothly. Only regret was not doing more research on how many schools to apply to. The Cal premed advisor told me 30 was a safe number. Ended up wasting a lot of money on primary/secondaries and had to turn down interviews because they were getting too costly/time consuming. 15-18 is a much more reasonable number.
Applied
University of Chicago
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
For some reason, I just held onto the secondary and never completed it. Meh.
Summary of Experience:
Had some issues with snailmail and not getting everything in on time. Lesson learned: track the important stuff you give to USPS.
Summary of Experience:
Had no clue why I applied to it. But I ended up loving the interview and my visit. People/facilities/education were all so awesome. They made me wish I could go to two med schools at once.
I think a lot of people don\'t apply here because it\'s Iowa, but I\'d highly recommend this place for med school to anyone.
crx took the old MCAT and scored a 37 which is in the 98th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 520 on the updated scale which is in the 98th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted crx’s section scores as follows:
crx scored a 14 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 131 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
crx 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.
crx 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.
