Brief Profile:
* Volunteer CNA, Volunteers in Medicine Clinic - Roomed patients for doctors (Took vital signs, height/weight, brief history, CBGs, U/A's). ## 100hrs ##
* Volunteer Biology Teacher's Aide, South Eugene High School - Helped out in a remedial biology classroom. Helped setup labs, helped student with homework, and graded papers. ## 100hrs ##
* Hospital CNA, St. Vincent's Hospital - Full-time job, direct patient care on every nursing unit in the hospital (I float to all the units). Great experience! ## 2000hrs ##
* Hospital CNA, St. Vincent's Hospital - Changed from floating, to working on the acute medical unit. Instead of just doing CNA work, I am now also the first to take care of psychiatric patients who need 1 on 1 care. ##1000hrs##
*Physician Shadowing - Shadowed an Ob/Gyn for a full week, all day each day, shadowed a family doc for two full days, and have just recently started shadowing a doctor at OHSU for 4hrs every week, who is also mentoring me, and letting me do full patient histories and interviews before he comes in and does it with a diagnosis. Amazing experience. ## 150hrs ##
*Medical Mission Trip: Went to country of Moldova, previously in the USSR, and now a very poor independent state. Lived in the villages, and did medical care with a group of doctors all around the south of the country.
* Intercollegiate Athletics, 2yrs, Ultimate Frisbee - Traveled all over the country playing other colleges. Time committment of about 25-30hrs a week when all averaged out. I was also the workout coordinator my last year on the team.
*Intramural Athletics, My entire time in college.
*Graduated Phi Beta Kappa (Different than just strictly GPA Cum Laude. Selected by a committee of faculty, what they think are the top 5% in the graduating class based on grades and class load/variety.)
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2005
Undergraduate college: University of Oregon
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Institution: CNA License
Area of Study: Nursing/Pharmacy/Medical Technology
Total MCAT SCORE: 514
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 127,
CARS 127
Overall GPA: 3.73
Science GPA: 3.70
Summary of Application Experience
Summary of my application:
- Applied to 12 schools - Invited for interview at 6. - Was accepted VERY early to UVa (1 week after my interview in December... GREAT Xmas present!!) so I declined two interviews that I was offered later, because UVa was one of my top choices. - Accepted at 2 - Waitlisted/Withdrew at 1 - Flat out rejected by my STATE School.
None of this process makes ANY sense to me. I calculated my odds, and my odds of getting into UVa (Probably the most prestigious school I applied to, and an out of state public institution) were the lowest of all the schools I was invited for an interview at. Yet, I had a snail-mailed acceptance letter in my hand less than a week later. That's incredible. My state school, who I had experience with faculty at, a very connected family history at, letters of recommendation from practicing alumni, ALMOST got into the year prior and had an exit meeting at... flat out rejected me. I was a few freaked out students dropping out at orientation away from being accepted last year, and this year I wasn't even waitlisted. The entire process of applying to medical school seems like a crapshoot. In the end, I am VERY happy I am going to UVa. After doing much research, it is a way better school than OHSU. Good luck to all of you who are applying!!
Applied, Rejected
University of North Carolina
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
I hear they only give secondaries to interviewees?
