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!!