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  • User #8215

  • Application cycles: 2007
  • Demographics: Female, African
  • Home state: New Jersey
  • Brief Profile: Undergrad:
    -4 years college cheerleading (captain 2005-2006)
    -member of hip-hop/contemporary dance group, and held leadership positions as president, business manager, and senior adviser in step team
    -arts/athletics related community service
    -academic notetaker for disabilities office-4 years
    -hospital volunteering for 1 year
    -SMEP at Columbia P&S
    -shadowed various MDs: internal medicine, neonatology, high-risk OB, pediatrics, laproscopic surgery
    -earned distinction in the major at graduation

    Post-College (2 years off)
    -Research Study Coordinator for clinical research trial on obesity and metabolic syndrome
    -3rd author for chapter about diabetes and obesity in American Diabetes Association book (in press)
    -shadow MDs in study at their appointments (weight control, endocrinology)
    -poster presentation at NAASO Annual Scientific Conference; and abstract of study published (3rd author) in Obesity supplement
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2007

    • Undergraduate college: Yale University
    • Undergraduate Area of study: History/Humanities
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 513
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 129, C/P 127, CARS 129  
    • Overall GPA: 3.61
    • Science GPA: 3.40

    Summary of Application Experience

    06/24/07: Sumbitted AMCAS

    07/17/07: AMCAS verified

    08/01/07: Committee Letter and LORs uploaded to VirtualEvals

    08/16/07: received 1st interview invite from Jefferson!

    08/24/07: interview invites at Northwestern, Tufts, and NJMS!

    09/14/07: The day my internet goes down, I pass the screen for UCSF!!! Amazing what happens when you can't compulsively check your email!

    09/18/07: Interview Invite from Howard and Cornell!

    09/19/07: Finished with ALL SECONDARIES!

    09/20/07: Interview invite from RWJ-UMDNJ!

    09/26/07: Received an invite from Temple and Columbia in the mail! Wow!

    10/12/07: Interviewed at Howard and RWJMS this week.

    10/16/07: Accepted to NJMS!!! Sent a post-interview letter of interest to Northwestern. In other news, had an awesome time at Columbia yesterday--they have the most amazing student support systems!!! Declined Rush interview.

    10/25/07: Accepted to Jefferson, what what!

    10/30/07: Had a great time at Temple! AND got a Yale invite! So excited--I get to go back to my alma mater :)

    11/20/07: Accepted via phone message to UMDNJ-RWJ! Will probably withdraw but still feeling so incredibly lucky with the progess of this season so far, I really couldn't ask for anything more.

    11/23/07: Reeee-jected from Temple. Boo. Ah well...

    12/03/07: Yale was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, no other words. Also, accepted to Howard but withdrew.

    12/04/07: OMG! Interview invite from UCSF OOS!! Ahhhhh!! :) Is this real?!?!

    12/05/07: Interview invite from GW!

    12/10/07: No news from Northwestern for 1st round of acceptances. Trying not to get too bummed about it. But, got an invite from UPENN!

    12/14/07: Interview invite from BU-withdrew

    12/19/07: Interview from NYU!

    01/12/08: Back from interviews at GW and UPenn. GW has great simulation, clinical training opportunities, and international/policy options but I'm not so excited about the propspect of being in class all day, pretty much everyday. But I loved UPenn! The curriculum is awesome, people are amazing, and the chance to spend 2.5 years in the hospital is great.

    01/22/08: I really liked NYU too (Bellevue is amazing--5 ER's in 1, how cool is that!).

    01/25/08: Accepted to GW!

    02/06/08: UCSF has the most amazing views of San Fran! Great school, my faculty interviewer was tough though. Also rejected post-secondary from Stanford, no surprise there. I didn't really want to do a 5th year of research anyway. And found out that I was awarded a 1/2 tuition scholarship from Jefferson for all 4 years!

    03/03/08: Accepted to Columbia!!! Yes, thank you!!! I'm so excited right now!!!

    03/14/08: Waitlisted at NYU, Northwestern, and Cornell.

    03/20/08: Withdrew from Tufts post-interview/pre-decision. Also found out I was awarded a $10,000/yr academic scholarship from NJMS! Also Yale waitlist.

    03/27/08: Another waitlist--Penn Tier 1.

    04/14/08: Attended P&S revisit and absolutely loved it! I think I would be very happy here. The plethora of ECs makes me very happy (along with the medical education, of course!) Just waiting to hear about financial aid.

    04/21/08: Rejected post-interview from UCSF (no surprise...my interviewer and I didn't really mesh) but I never even expected to get a secondary so I'm still happy with the way everything occurred. Also withdrew acceptance from GW and hope someone who really wants to go there gets to now!

    05/02/08: Withdrew from waitlists at NYU, Northwestern, and Cornell. Still waiting on Columbia financial aid (tick tock Columbia...)

    05/07/08: Withdrew acceptance from NJMS.

    05/13/08: Received financial aid offer from Columbia--and they pulled through with some extra scholarship money. P&S Class of 2012 represent!!

    Application Complete, Rejected

    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University
    Harvard University
    Stanford University

    Attended Interview, Rejected

    University of California, San Francisco
    Temple University

    Attended Interview, Withdrew

    Rush Medical College
    Boston University
    Tufts University

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted

    Yale University

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Rejected

    University of Pennsylvania

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Withdrew

    New York University
    Northwestern University
    Cornell University

    Accepted

    George Washington University
    Jefferson Medical College
    UMDNJ - New Jersey
    Howard University
    Columbia University
    UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson

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