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  • User #5318

  • Application cycles: 2006
  • Demographics: Female,
  • Home state: California
  • Brief Profile: -Volunteer in Brazil teaching English in an orphanage
    -Volunteer in China hospital (changed bandages, health education, take BP/pulse, etc.)
    -Planned Parenthood peer educator
    -Hospital volunteering (with shadowing)
    -Hospital patient escort
    -Hospital research on glaucoma
    -Tutor for homeless children
    -Tutor for abused children
    -AIDS patient food delivery volunteer
    -Immunization educator at elem & high schools
    -Humane society volunteer
    -Kaiser outpatient & inpatient Pharmacist intern (counsel patients, fill Rx, make IVs, etc.)
    -Various inpatient rotations through hospital (for pharmacy school)
    -Health Fair committee coordinator (for pharmacy school - organized health fairs & asthma awareness programs for neighborhood elementary schools)
    -High school Cheerleading choreographer
    -Played flute for about 12 years
    -Beginning Horseback riding instructor
    -Improv/Theatre troupe
    -Various Deans Lists
    -Undergraduate scholarship


    The EC's are just the main ones that come to mind right now. I haven't applied to med schools yet and am just making a 'wish list' to keep myself motivated & organized. I think I have enough clinical/volunteer experience but my GPA kind of worries me, especially since I'm a CA resident. My pharmacy GPA is around a 3.87. I also haven't taken the MCAT yet but I'm fairly confident that I can get above a 30. Preliminary practice tests score me in the 36-39 range so let's hope that score holds out on the real thing. :)

    Anyways, this whole med school application process is kind of nutty. The list I made is just comprised of a few schools that initially caught my eye. A lot of them are reach schools unfortunately. My target schools will change once I get a chance to fully review the new MSAR, and I'm sure a lot of schools will get taken off that list and replaced with schools more in my range... I'd absolutely kill to be able to stay in state though.

    Any advice on school choice, comments/criticisms, etc. are welcome!
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2006

    • Undergraduate college: UCSD
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
    • Institution: UCSD
    • Area of Study: Computing and Information Science
    • Degree Obtained: PharmD
    • Overall GPA: 3.53
    • Science GPA: 3.50

    Applied

    Wake Forest University
    Virginia Commonwealth University
    University of Southern California
    University of Rochester
    University of Pittsburgh
    University of Chicago
    University of California, San Francisco
    University of California, San Diego
    University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, Irvine
    University of California, Davis
    Tulane University
    Temple University
    SUNY Upstate
    SUNY Downstate
    SUNY Buffalo
    Stanford University
    New York University
    New York Medical College
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    Mayo Medical School
    Loyola University Chicago
    Loma Linda University
    Georgetown University
    George Washington University
    Rosalind Franklin University
    Eastern Virginia Medical School
    Drexel University
    Dartmouth College
    Cornell University
    Columbia University
    Brown University
    Baylor College
    Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University
    Albany Medical College

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