General Stats:
Took the MCAT today and it didn't go well. I am going to retake if I get under a 30. I think I can prepare more.
Stats on Grades:
-Ugrad was 3.0sGPA, 3.3 cGPA thanks to rampant depression, now fixed
-Grad GPA (MS, PhD in neuro) ~3.65 overall, ~3.7 in science...my TA grades brought me down because I was an awful TA. :laugh:
-Post-bacc 3.85, one withdraw b/c of a death in the family, retook to a B+
-Cumulative: 3.4 sGPA, 3.50 cGPA
Extra-curriculars:
- Research due to PhD (several posters, two published papers, another one by the end of the summer god willing)
- Lecturer in psych, which is my job, plus some work with underprivileged kids
- Freelance writer, writer for fun
- 78 hours ED volunteer
- 100 hours (by the end of the year) VA hospital volunteer - it's social programming in the clinics and around the hospital. Not sure if it counts?
- 300 hours of running an academic event (lots of planning, then executing it), as well as religious organization service (served on a committee, I'm sort of chair of it)
- Shadowed ~100 hours in neuropathology, 4 hours with a neurologist
Letters:
My boss, two science professors, my PhD adviser. The person whom I shadowed isn't writing back. The person who knows my volunteering the most isn't writing the best letter ever, so I may ask her to decline.
My dilemma:
I told my letter writers they had until 7/2, which was when I was getting back my MCAT score. If I need to retake, that pushes my application back until early/mid August. If I'm rocking a 30, with my mediocre GPA, I might not end up where I want to be.
Schools - Really trying to stay in the Mid-Atlantic/New England area
UMass (resident)
Tufts
BU - I have 2 degrees from there. That counts, right?
NY Medical
Hofstra
SUNY Downstate
Yeshiva (lol)
Case Western (also lol)
Stonybrook
Quinnipiac
Cooper
Georgetown
George Washington
Open to other suggestions and advice on when to apply.
Took the MCAT today and it didn't go well. I am going to retake if I get under a 30. I think I can prepare more.
Stats on Grades:
-Ugrad was 3.0sGPA, 3.3 cGPA thanks to rampant depression, now fixed
-Grad GPA (MS, PhD in neuro) ~3.65 overall, ~3.7 in science...my TA grades brought me down because I was an awful TA. :laugh:
-Post-bacc 3.85, one withdraw b/c of a death in the family, retook to a B+
-Cumulative: 3.4 sGPA, 3.50 cGPA
Extra-curriculars:
- Research due to PhD (several posters, two published papers, another one by the end of the summer god willing)
- Lecturer in psych, which is my job, plus some work with underprivileged kids
- Freelance writer, writer for fun
- 78 hours ED volunteer
- 100 hours (by the end of the year) VA hospital volunteer - it's social programming in the clinics and around the hospital. Not sure if it counts?
- 300 hours of running an academic event (lots of planning, then executing it), as well as religious organization service (served on a committee, I'm sort of chair of it)
- Shadowed ~100 hours in neuropathology, 4 hours with a neurologist
Letters:
My boss, two science professors, my PhD adviser. The person whom I shadowed isn't writing back. The person who knows my volunteering the most isn't writing the best letter ever, so I may ask her to decline.
My dilemma:
I told my letter writers they had until 7/2, which was when I was getting back my MCAT score. If I need to retake, that pushes my application back until early/mid August. If I'm rocking a 30, with my mediocre GPA, I might not end up where I want to be.
Schools - Really trying to stay in the Mid-Atlantic/New England area
UMass (resident)
Tufts
BU - I have 2 degrees from there. That counts, right?
NY Medical
Hofstra
SUNY Downstate
Yeshiva (lol)
Case Western (also lol)
Stonybrook
Quinnipiac
Cooper
Georgetown
George Washington
Open to other suggestions and advice on when to apply.