Brief Profile:
Non-trad, changed my career track senior year abroad. Went to a UC.
- 8 months clinical/shadowing a general surgeon in Europe. Scrubbed into surgeries, attended m&m\'s and a conference in Rome, hands on clinic work, translated medical stuff. Got listed as an author on a poster abstract for writing the English version. -1 year in hospital radiology dept as a gopher/clerk/patient transporter -lots of non-clinical work experience throughout undergrad -Phi Beta Kappa + some awards/honors/scholarships -foreign languages, musical instrument, regular fun stuff -soup kitchen, habitat for humanity, tutoring english to refugees, homeless clinic -a bit of shadowing -research at ucsf, not a lot, one abstract. FT research during gap year.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 07/30/2009
Undergraduate Area of study: History/Humanities
Institution: San Jose
Area of Study: Premedical Studies
Institution: San Francisco State University
Area of Study: Premedical Studies
Total MCAT SCORE: 520
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 131,
C/P 129,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.92
Science GPA: 3.97
Summary of Application Experience
Applied late and had one of my letters come in waaaaaaay late. No cash = not many apps submitted. Also, lazy.
Top choices at the beginning:
1. ucla/cornell/(ucsf) 2.ucsd/sinai 3. nyu 4. anyplace that grants an MD
YEAH!
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Well that was an easy decision. One acceptance to one of my #1\'s, looks like that\'s where I\'m headed. Fin Aid wasn\'t great at this very pricey school so I got aggressive about the UCLA waitlist, to no avail. Crappy interview there sunk me. But I\'ll pay it all back and I\'ve always wanted to live in Manhattan. Couldn\'t have turned out much better, really :)
Summary of Experience:
Got an email before I\'d submitted the secondary saying they couldn\'t offer me an interview at this time. Thought it was a pre-sec rejection so I didn\'t turn it in. It wasn\'t! But by the time they emailed to remind me about the secondary it was too late. Too cold there anyway.
