Brief Profile:
Volunteer: 150 hrs. Hospice Volunteering (during freshman and junior year) 120 hours taking notes, tutoring, and scribing for blind and other disabled students. 15 hours teaching as a swim coach for toddlers with ASD.
Academic ECs: Anatomy T.A. Job (made my own lectures and lectured to a group) and Learning Resources Center Tutor (tutored O-chem, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Physiology, and Anatomy).
Work Experience:
Radiology Case Assistant: Sorted out radiology cases various residents sent me, uploaded pictures, took out any pt. info, sorted by anatomy, pathology, etc. BUT I ONLY DID IT FOR A SEMESTER because my grades were really dropping and I wasn't mature enough (bit too much to chew sophomore 1st semester and it's why I don't have a 3.95 GPA).
KMart (1 summer-normal cashier+departmental-my first actual job)
Research: Major Weakness in Application. Getting informed consent for an epidemiological study. I did do a bit of research in a neurological lab using MatLab to analyze fMRIs but I didn't follow through with anything and left prematurely.
Shadowing: 30 hrs. Urologist D.O 20 hrs. Plastics and Hand Surgeon, M.D 15 hrs. Cardiologist, M.D. 15 hrs. Oncologist/Hematologist M.D.
Other: Served as a intern for a congressman in the inner-city of Detroit often going out of district to help caseworkers and other disadvantaged. It was a surprisingly insightful experience and I did this because I wanted to gain an insight the political system and how our government worked. I can actually link it to my interest in medicine in a unique way ***I actually want to emphasize this quite a bit when I explain why I'm choosing medicine***
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 06/09/2013
Undergraduate college: Michigan State University
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 516
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 128,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.86
Science GPA: 3.83
Summary of Application Experience
2 years of Hospice Summer mentoring autistic kids. 4 shadowing experiences. 1 year of Class Council Leadership. TA for a class. 1 year in Honorary Society that assists, the disabled. Tutor for Learning Resource Center. Internship w/ Congressman. Several small research activities.
No applications have been submitted yet during this cycle.
Spartan92 took the old MCAT and scored a which is in the percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a on the updated scale which is in the percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted Spartan92’s section scores as follows:
Spartan92 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.
Spartan92 scored a 11 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 128 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
Spartan92 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.
