Brief Profile:
-Research in high school/ one summer of college- author on abstracts/presentations, second author to one, author listed on one paper (no first authorships) -founder/co-coordinator for a bilingual tutoring group -involved in general community service groups ranging from homeless shelters to tutoring -one semester in the ER, one in an AIDS hospice -cabinet member of yale associated non-profit (dwight hall) -member/co-coordinator of group to support peers with special needs -varsity sailing three years and intramurals the other year -study abroad in west africa (through SIT)- while there worked with PTME projects to prevent the transmission of HIV from HIV + pregnant women to their babies -psychology honors society -studied abroad immediately prior to college in France -internship with an all male school for boys in foster care/ or on parole (NOT on AMCAS) -thesis on applying social psychology for crafting successful hiv-prevention messages (NOT on AMCAS)
nothing really all that note worthy- most interviewers commented on the large variety of things i had explored and all wanted to hear more details about my time in africa which was a field-study program that allowed me to spend a month independently travelling and working with the PTME clinics
-a few interviewers did want to confirm that i had shadowed someone at some point
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2004
Undergraduate college: Yale University
Undergraduate Area of study: Psychology/Social Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 514
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 127,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.81
Science GPA: 3.74
Summary of Application Experience
August MCAT in the summer of my sophomore year.
Applied the second week of June via AMCAS.
All secondaries were done by the end of August and were all pre-reqs.
Interviewed from late August until the week before Thanksgiving, with the exception of Stanford which didn't start interviews until Dec/Jan.
Was accepted by Oct. 15th at UMich, which allowed me to withdraw from many schools.
Remained on two waitlists- accepted off Hopkins May 24th and Stanford June 13th without sending any updates, letters, or completed transcript.
Advice: Construct a broad list, especially if you aren't sure what you want. And apply and interview as soon as possible at a rolling school like OSU, UVA, MICH, Vanderbilt, etc. so that hopefully, you can have an acceptance early on allowing you to withdraw from schools where you wouldn't be as happy.
User #2935 took the old MCAT and scored a 33 which is in the 91th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 514 on the updated scale which is in the 91th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #2935’s section scores as follows:
User #2935 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.
User #2935 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.
User #2935 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.
