Brief Profile:
Listed on primary application: - Computer Science: Bioinformatics major - Molecular bio research at The Salk Institute (3+ years) - Summer research (another molecular bio lab) at UCLA SOM - UCSD Chancellor's Research Scholar; Amgen Scholar - Software engineer for a structural genomics consortium (2.5 years) - Open source software developer (6+ months) - Shadowing (3 different MDs, 100 hours) - Nursing floor volunteer (1 quarter) - Biology TA (1 quarter) - Best Buddies (1 year) - Phi Beta Kappa
Listed on secondaries or sent in as updates: - 5 LORs: 2 research, 1 from TAing, 1 CS professor, 1 MD from shadowing - Second author on a J Struct Funct Genomics paper - Going to S. Korea in February for 5 months to work in a cell biology lab - I'm ESL, so I stressed my language barrier on secondaries
I took the MCAT twice, getting a 27Q (6VR, 10PS, 11BS) on the first try. There is hope!
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2008
Undergraduate college: UCSD
Undergraduate Area of study: Engineering/Technology
User #9933 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 #9933’s section scores as follows:
User #9933 scored a 13 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 #9933 scored a 14 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 132 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #9933 scored a 8 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 124 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
