Brief Profile:
Clinical: *Volunteer- Radiology Department Emergency Room *Internships- Gastroenterology & Hepatology *Paid Employment- Medical Assistant Research Coordinator (On-Going) *Other- Berkeley Medical Journal
Non-Clinical: *Volunteer- National Youth Policy *Paid Employment- Store Cashier (3yrs) Store Manager (4yrs) (On-Going) *Awards: Dean's List
This is def. not everything, just all that is coming to my mind at the moment.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2005
Undergraduate college: UC Berkeley
Undergraduate Area of study: Premedical Studies
Total MCAT SCORE: 507
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 129,
C/P 127,
CARS 124
Overall GPA: 3.70
Science GPA: 3.50
Summary of Application Experience
Being from California, even if you have stellar stats and EC's, you gotta apply across the board (30-40 schools).
Secondaries are terribly time consuming, but they get easier once you get more of them done.
Try to group interviews together, and always get the earliest date possible for an interview.
My only acceptance was from my latest interview. I can't believe how fast UIC responded: 11-20 invite 12-7 interview 12-19 accepted. You really can't beat that. And UIC is a really great school!
Advice:
General *You will get stressed out when.. -your friend has 12 secondaries, and you only have 6, but it don't matter, everyone gets secondaries to ~90% of the schools they apply to. -you are between your first and second batch of interviews. But schools will get around to you. -a school has rendered a decision, and you are guarding the mail box and scaring the neighbors... but that can only really go away once you got an acceptance.
Interview *Stay active in the healthcare field while applying- adcomms love to hear about up-to-date research.
*Know your application, and your motivations for entering medicine and their particular school.
*Know your healthcare in and out and be familiar with common ethical issues
*The more confident you are during the interview, the better your chances and the easier your interview will go. I think of adcomms as vultures, cuz they only prey on the weak and fraile- go in strong and they will just go with the flow. If you are passive, they will start grilling you on the sh*t you don't want to hear (bad grades/healthcare policy/ethics)
Applied, Rejected
West Virginia University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Forgot I was out of state (OOS)
User #4778 took the old MCAT and scored a 29 which is in the 73th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 507 on the updated scale which is in the 74th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #4778’s section scores as follows:
User #4778 scored a 11 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #4778 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 #4778 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.
