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  • User #2005

  • Application cycles: 2004
  • Demographics: Male, East Asian
  • Home state: California
  • Brief Profile: Research for 2.5 years, honors thesis.
    Volunteered at 2 different hospitals and a free clinic.
    Officer in a student organization on campus for 2 yrs.
    Published in campus undergraduate science journal.
    Mentored high school student for 1 year.
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2004

    • Undergraduate college: UC Berkeley
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 519
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 130, C/P 130, CARS 129  
    • Overall GPA: 3.70
    • Science GPA: 3.61

    Summary of Application Experience

    AMCAS processed early July.
    All secondaries done by the end of September.

    2/5/05: I hate this process. I am very grateful for the NYMC acceptance, but why is it so hard to get accepted post-interview? And what does a guy have to do to get into a CA school? What is so horribly wrong with my app?

    3/9/05: Two things I have learned. The later in the season you have your interview, the harder it gets to be accepted. It seems like your chances diminish pretty rapidly unless your interview is before December. Secondly, the longer you have to wait to hear back post-interview, the more likely it becomes that you will be sent a rejection.

    7/19/05: Waitlists are bullshit. They're just delayed rejections. Update letters, letters of intent, phone calls...none of it matters. Pray that you never get stuck in waitlist hell.

    7/20/05: Funny how life works. Got accepted to UC Irvine today. It was my first choice. Anteaters.

    8/3/05: My last words of wisdom before the start of med school. Lots of ups and downs during this process (for me, mostly down), but I'm very happy with the way things turned out. I just want to say for all those who end up waitlisted - don't ever give up hope until you have actually physically matriculated at a school. If you want to go to a school badly enough, be very persistent and very patient. I was shocked at how much waitlist movement there was in the last 2 weeks of July. Keep hope alive until the very last possible moment. Even if you call a school and they tell you that your chances are slim to none, keep hope alive. For instance, I was told by Davis that I had very little chance of getting off the waitlist because I was ranked in the bottom half of the waitlist. 5 days after I get into Irvine (and 4 days after I had already emailed my withdrawal to Davis), guess who calls? UC Davis. Apparently you can get in from the bottom half if you wait long enough (they hadn't checked their email before they called me). Luckily, I had already decided many months prior that Irvine was my top choice, so no harm done.

    Application Complete, Rejected

    University of Pittsburgh
    University of Chicago
    Tulane University
    Georgetown University
    Case Western Reserve University
    Brown University
    New York University
    Cornell University
    George Washington University
    Columbia University
    Baylor College
    University of Southern California
    Emory University
    Harvard University
    University of Pennsylvania
    Tufts University
    University of California, San Diego
    University of California, San Francisco
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Stanford University
    Temple University

    Application Complete, Withdrew

    Saint Louis University
    Jefferson Medical College

    Attended Interview, Rejected

    Northwestern University
    Boston University
    Washington University in St. Louis

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Rejected

    University of Michigan
    Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Withdrew

    Vanderbilt University
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    University of California, Davis
    Dartmouth College

    Accepted off Waitlist

    University of California, Irvine

    Accepted

    Drexel University
    New York Medical College

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