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  • User #8532

  • Application cycles: 2007
  • Demographics: Female, Caucasian
  • Home state: California
  • Brief Profile: -Work study research assistant in Immunobiology Lab 3 years (non-bench work. I gathered articles, edited grant proposals and manuscripts, etc)

    -Dean's list 4 semesters, second honors 2 semester. Graduated cum laude

    -Involved in campus EMS organization for 3.5 years: ambulance driver and crew member (all 3.5 years); Scheduler (1 year); Director of Personnel (1 year). About 30-40 hours/week during school year.

    -Howard Hughes Fellowship: I was part of a pilot program for biology majors to write a thesis based on teaching biology in the DC public school community, rather than on lab work. This was a 2.5 year commitment, involved pedagogy, lesson planning, and extensive classroom time.

    National Human Genome Research Institute: employed from Aug 05 - Aug 06. non-clinical work

    Patent paralegal: Aug 06 - Jul 07

    Not much clinical or research, but I don't really like benchwork. Clinical hours from EMS work and from hospital volunteering in High School.

  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2007

    • Undergraduate college: Georgetown University
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 511
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 129, C/P 128, CARS 126  
    • Overall GPA: 3.62
    • Science GPA: 3.72

    Summary of Application Experience

    9/24: I've submitted my top choices, GW and Georgetown, and my premed committee just told me I can start sending LORs by the end of this week. Basically any secondary that requires checklists and no essays I have no problem finishing. Essays, however, bug me. My goal is to get Emory out within a couple of days.

    9/19: GOT MCAT SCORES BACK! Improved from 27Q to 31S!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAY

    Starting really late. Decision to apply for '08 year came late, so I am scrambling to study for round two of mcats (august 20) and attempt to get my application stuff in order. School list needs editing.

    I didn't apply to med school right out of school because I wasn't fully sure about the medical path. I spent some time in jobs seeing if there was anything else I liked, and I decided there wasn't, so medicine it is.

    Any thoughts, encouragement, help, guidance, etc. would be appreciated!

    Applied

    Philadelphia College - Atlanta
    Charles Drew University/UCLA
    Wright State University
    University of Southern California
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    University of Michigan
    University of Maryland
    University of Illinois
    University of Colorado
    University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, Irvine
    University of California, Davis
    Tufts University
    Rush Medical College
    Northwestern University
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    Medical College of Wisconsin
    Loyola University Chicago
    Rosalind Franklin University
    Eastern Virginia Medical School
    Duke University
    Drexel University
    Case Western Reserve University
    Albany Medical College

    Application Complete

    University of California, San Diego
    Temple University
    SUNY Upstate
    SUNY Downstate
    New York University
    New York Medical College
    Michigan State University
    Jefferson Medical College
    Georgetown University
    George Washington University
    Emory University
    Columbia University
    Boston University
    Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University

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