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Application cycles: 06/16/2009
Demographics: Male, 35, East Asian
Home state: California
Last Active: 04/16/2011

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

Applied, Rejected

University of Washington

Application Complete

Drexel University

Application Complete, Rejected

Harvard University

Johns Hopkins University

Stanford University

University of North Carolina

Washington University in St. Louis

Columbia University

Application Complete, Withdrew

George Washington University

Invited for Interview, Withdrew

Baylor College

Dartmouth College

Georgetown University

Mayo Medical School

New York University

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

University of Southern California

Yale University

Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Rejected

University of California, San Francisco

Accepted off Waitlist

Cornell University

University of California, San Diego

University of California, Los Angeles

Accepted

University of Pittsburgh

University of Iowa

Vanderbilt University

Duke University

Northwestern University

Tufts University

MD Applicants

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