User #8433
Application cycles: 2007
Demographics: Male, Caucasian
Home state: Michigan

Brief Profile: Bio major, neuro conc., religious studies minor
Interested in neurology --> REALLY want to do MD/PhD

Work and research:
-pharmacy tech for ~4 years before/during college
-Lab TA for intro bio courses

-Tutored students doing excellerated intro bio during summer
-Research for 2 summers/2 semesters with developmental biologist =senior thesis

Recognitions:
-Dean's list every year
-2 pre-med scholarships (same one past two years)
-2 biology scholarships (see above)
-research funded by school's research program
-scholarship from home town hospital

Memberships/Leadership/Community service
-AMSA (president 2007)
-Alpha phi omega (held chair position) = at least 20 hours community service a semester...past 4 semesters...most hours this past year have been from nursing home volunteering
-BBB (bio honors society)
-Mortar board
-Omicron Delta Kappa (just elected president)

Extracurriculars:
-FURSCA selection committee member (for my college's research program that has funded my own research)
-Intramural frisbee [2x IM champion :) ]

Conferences/Presentations:
-Presenter (poster) at 2006 Society for Developmental biology
-Albion College: Biorama poster presenter
-Platform presentation for 2007 Albion College Elkin Isaac research symposium
-Attendee: 2006 Society for Neuroscience conf. (will be attending 2007)...P.s. I met/ate pizza with V.S. Ramachandran there :D

Shadowing experience:
-1 general surgeon = ~ 3 or 4 days of surgeries
-2 ophthalmologists (DO, if that matters)...a few days
-4 neurologists (3 DO, 1 MD)...a couple weeks, switching between each

// Applications //

Application Cycle One: 2007

Undergraduate college: Albion College
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences

Total MCAT SCORE: 509
MCAT Section Scores: B/B 127, C/P 126, CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.84
Science GPA: 3.54

Summary of Application Experience

So far, I'm done with everything but the MD/PhD essays...

also applying DO, but only interested in a few schools...slacking on those apps

DO schools interested in: DO/PhD's both

MSU COM
Midwestern: Chicago

MD Schools INTERESTED in, i.e. this is very maleable:
(if they have an MSTP program, I want in)

Boston
Brown
Case Western
Columbia (yeah, right, I know)
Cornell
Creighton
Dartmouth
Duke (another yeah, right)
Emory
New York U.
Northwestern
Ohio State
Ros. Franklin
Rush
SUNY - Buffalo
U of Chicago (Pritzker)
U of Mich
U Pitt
Washington U in St. Lou
Wayne State U
Yeshiva -Albert Einstein

No applications have been submitted yet during this cycle.

User #8433 took the old MCAT and scored a 30 which is in the 79^th percentile of all old scores. We converted this to a 509 on the updated scale which is in the 80^th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #8433’s section scores as follows:
User #8433 scored a 10 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #8433 scored a 9 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 126 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #8433 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.

MD Applicants

User #8433

// Applications //

Application Cycle One: 2007

Summary of Application Experience

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