Brief Profile:
nothing too special here: E.R. volunteering one summer, asthma research and song bird research (no pubs yet, but abstracts with my name on them have been submitted), nice anesthesia shadowing experience, worked up the ranks of religious organization, some tutoring, building manager, Kaplan Instructor, Intramurals, and yes, my favorite: dean's list 4/6 semesters.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2006
Undergraduate college: Johns Hopkins University
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 517
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 129,
C/P 130,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.64
Science GPA: 3.63
Summary of Application Experience
6/20: Man, even doing the primary app. sucks. 6/25: Primary submitted. 7/10: AMCAS verified. 8/4: All letters sent to schools. 8/23: Now to play the waiting game and experience the emotional roller coaster of the process. 9/21: Holds are annoying, kinda defeats the purpose of applying early. Thank God I have one interview. 10/25: So I'm hold now at another school. I'm not hearing from my 'safeties' and I'm guess I'm at one of the dips in the roller coaster. Feeling very uneasy right about now. 12/12: I think I'm in a good place right now. Really want to nail these next few interviews, especially NW.
Applied, Rejected
Southern Illinois 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:
app acknowledged, 'screened alternate', rejected 1/8
User #5855 took the old MCAT and scored a 35 which is in the 96th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 517 on the updated scale which is in the 95th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #5855’s section scores as follows:
User #5855 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 #5855 scored a 13 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 130 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #5855 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.
