Brief Profile:
EC\'s include the usual: volunteering, research, intramurals, leadership in my professional society, baking lemon squares, growing patchy facial hair, swinging through jungle vines and beating my chest as i give a mighty jungle-cry, fighting crime in a cape, serving up a nice hot stack of justice pancakes to the hungry perpetrators of evil that rule the night, riding my gold-embroidered chariot of flame across the Valhallan sky with a host of fair Valkyries and the icy northern winds at my back, CASTING THE UNHOLY RING INTO THE CHASM OF MOUNT DOOM FROM WHENCE IT WAS FORGED FOR ITS DARK PURPOSE, the usual.
Also an Eagle Scout and a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and other honor societies.
Since the summer I\'ve been volunteering at a Catholic pro-life pregnancy center.
I\'m also an underrepresented minority; I believe there are far too few of me in medical school.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 06/07/2011
Undergraduate Area of study: Engineering/Technology
Total MCAT SCORE: 517
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 130,
CARS 126
Overall GPA: 3.88
Science GPA: 3.93
Summary of Application Experience
Applied through TMDSAS (5/23/2011) to: UT Southwestern UTMB UTSA UT Houston Texas Tech Texas Tech-El Paso Texas A&M
Applied through AMCAS (6/8/2011) to: Baylor Mayo (no secondary required and lots of scholarship money)
Summary of Experience:
Submitted 6/8; Secondary Complete 6/25; Interview Invite 8/3; Interview Attended 9/2. The Texas Medical Center is phenomenal, but Baylor seemed underwhelming (I think such great experiences thus far at interviews really raised my expectations for this school). They do seem to have a great curriculum though, with a lot of flexibility, but nothing else really stood out. I had one great interview and one not-so-great interview. If I\'m accepted it\'ll be worth another look but I\'m not too excited about Baylor right now.
Long School of Medicine - University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: 07/28/2011
Interview Attended: 08/14/2011
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
No secondary required. Submitted 5/23; Interview Invite 7/29; Interview Attended 8/15. Withdrew 1/10 via match. The opportunity to do rounds in Harlingen is very exciting- they provide a lot of hands-on training for students. San Antonio seems like a fun place, and since the school is outside of downtown there is a lot less traffic and housing is less expensive.
Probation=won\'t touch San Antonio with a 10\' pole.
Summary of Experience:
Submitted 5/23; Secondary Complete 5/29; Interview Invite 8/12; Interview Attended 9/17. Withdrew 1/10 via match. I like this school. It\'s huge, there are lots and lots of opportunities to see a variety of clinical settings, there is a lot of research going on (which I\'m interested in), and Dallas itself seems like a fun place. The students seem very nerdy. but they are subdivided in to six \"colleges\" that seem to foster a lot of social growth. One of my interviews couldn\'t have gone better and the other one was full of really tough to answer questions. I\'m really hopeful about Southwestern. Also, all of the buildings look like museums and are filled with art; that was pretty cool.
Summary of Experience:
No secondary required. Submitted 5/23; Interview Invite 8/12, Interview Attended 9/22. Withdrew 1/10 via match. El Paso and Tech were both pleasant surprises. The scenery is great; mountains bisect the city, which is much larger than I had envisioned. The school is small but state-of-the-art, and they are opening a brand new children\'s hospital in February and have a lot more expansion planned. The faculty are unique too; I guess it takes a unique type of individual to leave their home institution and start a new one from scratch in a new place. They ONLY have pass/fail for the first two years, then only honors/pass/fail after that. Too bad El Paso is so far from family.
Summary of Experience:
No secondary required. Submitted 5/23; Interview Invite 8/15; Interview Attended 9/9. Withdrew 1/10 via match. This school was amazing. The environment was great; everyone was friendly and funny, and they really went out of their way to make us feel welcome. We saw their helipad and helicopters, went on a bus tour, ate fajitas, and got sung to. Going here would be fun.
Summary of Experience:
No secondary required. Submitted 5/23; Interview Invite 6/27; Interview Attended 8/5. Everything about this school seems low-key: the interviews were laid back, the schedule is laid back, and all the students and faculty are laid back. They have a lot of cool opportunities like an aerospace medicine track (NASA is close-by) and study abroad opportunities. This is a top choice of mine; hopefully I\'ll get some good news in November.
Summary of Experience:
Submitted 5/23; Secondary Completed 5/29; Interview Invite 8/11; Interview Attended 8/24. Withdrew 1/10 via match. The facilities at Tech really were impressive. There is a great recreational facility and lots of intramural sports. I think my interviews went really well and I hit it off with the interviewers. If only Lubbock wasn\'t in the middle of nowhere...
