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  • User #5701

  • Application cycles: 2006
  • Demographics: Male, Caucasian
  • Home state: Washington
  • Brief Profile: -Cultural Diversity Scholarship
    -Outstanding Student of History & Political Science
    -Electronic music composition, performances
    -Writing, photography
    -Theatre management
    -Volunteering with St John Ambulance, London
    -Volunteering at Royal London Hospital A & E
    -Volunteered at San Francisco General ER
    -Research assistant in microbiology and physical biochemistry lab
    -University lecturer in music technology

    **Comments below are welcome**
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2006

    • Undergraduate college: The Evergreen State College
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Computing and Information Science
    • Institution: Mills College
    • Area of Study: Fine Arts/Architecture
    • Degree Obtained: MFA
    • Institution: San Francisco State University
    • Area of Study: Premedical Studies
    • Degree Obtained: n/a
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 513
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 127, C/P 126, CARS 132  
    • Overall GPA: 3.46
    • Science GPA: 3.46

    Summary of Application Experience

    My GPA is a bit misleading, because my best work (which was also over half of my undergrad credits) was done at Evergreen, which was done by narrative evaluation. My post-grad GPA was a 3.71 and my post-bacc GPA was 3.49 (not great, but not too bad).

    Used streaming lectures from UC-Berkeley and MIT to review the sciences (though I haven't taken the final semester of physics, chemistry, or biology), and MCAT Gold Standard, and I found the online AMCAS tests to be the best actual test prep. I took the August MCAT, and scored 32S.

    I submitted my application at the end of August, and as of mid-October I'm still waiting for AMCAS to finish verifying it. In the meantime, I've begun the secondaries that I had access to.

    I'm now receiving secondaries faster than I can complete and pay for them. It's early November, and my hopes run high...

    It's now mid-December, completed most of the Secondaries and just waiting for news on interviews.

    Now it's late January, and still waiting for an interview invite.

    Late February update: rejections coming in, but I got an invite to interview at Jefferson, so renewed my hope. No longer resigned to waiting another year! Hoping for another interview invite soon, too.

    Late March: getting very excited about JMC interview, looks like a great school. I still haven't heard from Mt Sinai and Tulane. All other schools have sent me rejections.

    Early April: interviewed at Jefferson, and absolutely loved the school. Hoping I get in. Update: Received rejections from Tulane and Mt Sinai, so now it's Jeff or stay in the UK, and apply next year...

    Late April: waiting on pins and needles to hear from Jefferson. Supposedly, the adcom is meeting tomorrow, so I'm hoping I get a phone call tomorrow or the next day. Update: I rang and was told I'd receive something in the mail, which could either be a rejection or a waitlist.

    Mid-August: apparently, I was offered a place high on the waitlist, but never received the letter. So, I wasn't actually on the waitlist, because there was a bit you had to reply to. I'm preparing my applications for UK medical schools, and will hopefully have more luck here.

    February '08: I have been accepted at Guy's, King's College, and St Thomas' Medical School, the University of London, to start this fall. Most excellent news. This totally rocks. King's is #24 on the World Rankings of universities, which is exciting. Maybe I'll come back to the US for residency, but maybe not...

    Applied, Rejected

    University of California, San Francisco
    University of California, San Diego
    University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, Davis

    Application Complete, Rejected

    Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    SUNY Downstate
    New York University
    Tufts University
    Tulane University
    Dartmouth College

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Rejected

    Jefferson Medical College

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