Brief Profile:
Awards: deans list sophmore and junior year (had huge academic turn around, my freshman gpa was about a 3.0, and hovered around 3.9 for the rest of my career)
EC's
2 years working in lab while in school. no publications, did get a letter from a well known PI.
everything else was pretty much fluff.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2006
Undergraduate college: Vanderbilt University
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 522
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 129,
CARS 132
Overall GPA: 3.64
Science GPA: 3.54
Summary of Application Experience
I interviewed at about half of the places I applied to, which equated to a ton of traveling expenses. I'm elated with the outcome: I think Columbia was my #1 from the beginning.
User #6090 took the old MCAT and scored a 38 which is in the 99th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 522 on the updated scale which is in the 99th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #6090’s section scores as follows:
User #6090 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 #6090 scored a 12 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #6090 scored a 14 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 132 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
