Undergraduate Area of study: Psychology/Social Sciences
Institution: University of Washington
Area of Study: Biological/Life Sciences
Degree Obtained: Molecular Bio/Biochemistry
Total MCAT SCORE: 509
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 127,
CARS 124
Overall GPA: 3.02
Science GPA: 3.14
Summary of Application Experience
I'll add more when I have time, including my SOP.
For now, I'm a non-trad with 7 years of clinical experience working in rural and underserved populations. Gates Millennium Scholar. Experiences in Mental Health, Emergency Medicine and in Patient Safety. Some Neuroscience research - about 1.5 years worth. Never published. Undergrad GPA was a nightmare, so I did a post-bacc, which brought up my GPA just enough. While working on my post-bacc, I commuted for 3 hours every day to my university, and worked full time - so while my GPA is no where close to the norm, it is as a result of extenuating circumstances. My overall story is one of overcoming adversity, and that will later be explained when I post my SOP. My goal in pursuing medicine is to work with the underserved Latino population, and my experiences corroborate this.
Summary of Experience:
I was stupid enough to apply here without researching the fact that they have a GPA restriction. They automatically reject you if you have anything below a 3.2.
psychkub took the old MCAT and scored a 30 which is in the 79th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 509 on the updated scale which is in the 80th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted psychkub’s section scores as follows:
psychkub scored a 12 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 130 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
psychkub scored a 10 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
psychkub scored a 8 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 124 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
