Brief Profile:
Relatively extensive international medical work; president and co-founder of an on-campus organization; national tennis ranking; research in neurosurgery and orthopaedics (no publications); numerous significant hobbies.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2005
Undergraduate college: University of California, San Diego
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Institution: University of California, San Diego
Area of Study: History/Humanities
Degree Obtained: BA
Total MCAT SCORE: 516
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 128,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.70
Science GPA: 3.95
Summary of Application Experience
Travelling around can get quite tiring. I suggest booking interviews in blocks if possible (ie: if you are from the West coast try to do East coast interviews together). Do not get discouraged if you do not hear back from some places early, or are waitlisted. It is really a crap-shoot when it comes to where people get in! Make sure that you make friends with your fellow interviewees! They may be your future colleagues/class mates... I met one guy who I interviewed with at three different interviews (around the country, ha ha).
So far I've gotten hosed from the 'top 10' schools in the country. Numerous pre-interview rejections and I was not even waitlisted for Harvard's HST program. Waitlisted at Penn ('Tier 1'), which was the first pseudo-rejection that really hurt. I'm hoping that UCSF comes through as my saving grace! Wish me luck!
Thank god for perserverance! I just got in off the waitlist at Penn and will be heading to Philadelphia this August!
User #4476 took the old MCAT and scored a 34 which is in the 94th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 516 on the updated scale which is in the 94th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #4476’s section scores as follows:
User #4476 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 #4476 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.
User #4476 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.
