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  • User #5557

  • Application cycles: 2006
  • Demographics: Female, East Asian
  • Home state: Texas
  • Brief Profile: President of Pre-Med Society
    Vice Chair of Rice Student Volunteer Program
    Scientific Publications Intern at Texas Heart Institute
    Research experience in biochemistry lab
    UT-Houston Cardiovascular Externship
    Shadowing- Pediatric Cardiologist
    Volunteered at two hospitals in the Texas Medical Center
    AMA CPR-Certified :)
    Choreographed traditional dance for Rice's Lunar New Year Celebration
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2006

    • Undergraduate college: Rice University
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 516
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 129, C/P 128, CARS 130  
    • Overall GPA: 3.97
    • Science GPA: 3.94

    Summary of Application Experience

    GPA: I posted my GPA according to TMDSAS. AMCAS recalculated it as 3.93/3.94 (BCPM/overall)... took away my A+'s haha

    Primaries:
    6/24: submitted AMCAS!
    7/10: AMCAS processed

    7/3: submitted TMDSAS!!
    7/19: TMDSAS processed

    Secondaries:
    7/11: submitted Penn - application complete on 8/14
    7/25: submitted Baylor - application complete on 8/14
    7/30: submitted UT-Southwestern
    8/7: submitted Columbia
    8/23: submitted Vandy! That autobiography was a killer..

    *8/10: Letters uploaded to Virtual Evals by pre-med office

    Interviews:
    7/24: UT Southwestern offered me an interview through e-mail, which I have scheduled for 9/16. They hadn't even received my secondary or recs!!
    8/1: UTMB (no letters yet).. scheduled for 9/1
    8/7: UT-Houston finally contacted me. scheduled for 8/18 *update: i'm in love
    8/7: Vanderbilt invited me to complete the secondary and then schedule an interview - 10/16! (my first out of state :)
    8/17: Baylor!!! YAYYYYYY! Scheduled for 9/8
    9/25: Columbia sent me a letter! Scheduled interview for 11/3
    10/13: UPenn e-mailed me, yay! Interview on 11/1!!!!

    Acceptances:
    11/15: my birthday (12:09 am) by e-mail--- UT-Houston!!!!!
    11/15: UTMB too!!
    11/16: e-mail from SW! best birthweek everrrr

    Non-Acceptances haha:
    11/20: Vanderbilt-- waitlisted
    3/1: Columbia-- optimistic waitlist letter... had to wait all of spring break for this!

    *I've decided not to complete the secondaries for Tulane and USC for the time being because I am not sure if I would pick them over a Texas school, such as UT-Houston, which I fell in love with.. oh yeah, I already mentioned that =p ...or maybe I'm just lazy haha.. don't tell anyone!

    Application Complete

    Long School of Medicine - University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted

    University of Pennsylvania
    Columbia University

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Rejected

    Vanderbilt University

    Accepted

    University of Texas, Houston
    University of Texas, Galveston
    University of Texas, Southwestern
    Baylor College

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