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  • User #5493

  • Application cycles: 2005
  • Demographics: Female, Caucasian
  • Home state: Oregon
  • Brief Profile: - Graduated with honors, and minored in fiction writing
    - published a paper as first author in the Journal of Neurosurgery
    - did substantial research experience at diverse labs (social psychology, neural regeneration, genetics of neural migration, neuroimaging, breast cancer/emotion coding, cortisol recovery)
    - received a competitive research grant
    - completed an original experiment as my honors thesis and presented it at a breast cancer research conference
    - shadowed neurosurgeons in clinic & OR for 2 summers (while doing research work for them)
    - did a summer of clinical work in Ecuador with CFHI
    - worked on 2 crisis lines (domestic violence off-campus and peer counseling on campus) where I had leadership positions (social coordinator, outreach coordinator, live-in)
    - started and lead 2 support groups (art therapy for schizophrenics, support group for depressed students)
    - intern at UCSF Psychiatry doing counseling & case management for chronic mentally ill
    - worked as in-home ABA therapist for autistic children
    - taught environmental education to 4th graders
    - taught peer counseling to college students for 2 years
    - participated in 3 singing groups
    - participated in Women's Issues Alternative Spring Break doing community service
    - performed in 2 plays (for one, wrote own monologue)
    - took 8 years of voice lessons plus recitals, & performed solos at old folks' homes as part of community service group
    - member of ballroom dance team for a year
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2005

    • Undergraduate college: Stanford University
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Psychology/Social Sciences
    • Institution: Post-Bac Premed at Mills College
    • Area of Study: Premedical Studies
    • Degree Obtained: none
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 517
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 131, C/P 125, CARS 132  
    • Overall GPA: 3.50
    • Science GPA: 3.30

    Summary of Application Experience

    Very humbling and totally unpredictable. I probably could have gotten away with applying to fewer schools, but since it seemed totally random who gave me interviews and who didn't, I could have eliminated the wrong places and screwed myself over. It was just so terribly random! Good luck to all of you future applicants -- apply broadly, that's my advice. Use the MSAR to carefully evaluate your chances.

    Also, don't get the flu before the MCAT. I was sick all week but I studied and studied and didn't let myself get well. Thus, I needed to throw up during the entire first section of the day (physical sciences) which was, to say the least, distracting.

    Applied, Rejected

    Wake Forest University
    University of Washington
    University of North Carolina
    University of South Carolina

    Application Complete, Rejected

    University of Rochester
    University of Maryland
    University of Connecticut
    UMDNJ - New Jersey
    University of Chicago
    Tufts University
    Tulane University
    Temple University
    Northwestern University
    New York University
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    George Washington University
    Georgetown University
    Emory University
    Brown University
    Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University
    Boston University
    Albany Medical College
    New York Medical College

    Attended Interview, Rejected

    SUNY Downstate
    Cleveland Clinic Medical School
    Case Western Reserve University

    Attended Interview, Withdrew

    University of Vermont
    University of Illinois
    Saint Louis University
    Rosalind Franklin University

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Rejected

    Eastern Virginia Medical School
    Drexel University
    Dartmouth College
    Medical College of Wisconsin

    Accepted

    Oregon Health & Science University
    University of Cincinnati
    SUNY Buffalo

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