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'sup y'all
I'll be honest: I've always looked forward to the day when I can have enough information to make a WAMC thread. With my MCAT score in just yesterday, here we go.
Note: I'm still deciding whether to apply next cycle or not, as I may want a gap year. But everything is pretty much set already and won't change very much. My grades will only go up, not down. :xf:
HYP undergrad. Political Science & Biochemistry. NY resident.
cGPA: 3.75
sGPA: 3.70
MCAT: 36 (12/12/12)
Not the most rigorous schedule, but I've taken MPH (many), MBA (2), and JD (1) courses.
ECs (written as it would be in May 2014; most meaningful underlined):
– 3 years (i.e., since freshman fall) in health services research at powerhouse research center
Publications: 2 published (group), 1 in manuscript (second author)
– 3 years Rubik's Cube club co-president; veteran speedcuber
Average 15 secs (3x3), 6 secs (2x2), 20 secs (3x3 one-handed), ~4-5 minutes (3x3 blindfolded)
– 1.5 years in health systems research with London research group; only briefs, no papers
– 2.5 years op-ed columnist for university newspaper
– 2 year editor for university's health policy law review (peer-reviewed law journal)
– 1.5 years founder/director of Science Olympiad group on campus to host science competitions for high school students (first university to do so)
– 2 year tutor/TA for freshman orgo
– 300 hours volunteering with hunger/homelessness activist group
– 150 hours volunteering at local free clinic
– 50 hours volunteering at hospice
– 30+ hours shadowing in multiple specialties
Unpaid Work Experience:
– 1 year part-time intern for patient advocate lobbyist in state legislature
– 1.5 years part-time intern with legal assistance organization helping local area Medicaid patients
– 3 months intern with health care IT startup
– 3 months [insert summer 2014 internship]
Reaches:
Columbia
Cornell
Harvard
JHU
Penn
Tufts
Yale
Realistic:
BU
Georgetown
Icahn (Mt. Sinai)
NYU
Rutgers RWJ (UMDNJ renamed)
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Stony Brook
Uncertain:
Brown (don't know much about school/area)
Dartmouth (great health policy program but MIDDLE OF EFFING NOWHERE)
UConn (OOS tuition not worth it over SUNY)
SUNY Upstate (idk upstate is weird to us NYCers lol)
Here's my three main things:
I couldn't find any other school on the MSAR that I'm really interested in. Suggestions on schools that I should look around the Northeast would be very appreciated.
Thanks!!
***PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE***
'sup y'all
I'll be honest: I've always looked forward to the day when I can have enough information to make a WAMC thread. With my MCAT score in just yesterday, here we go.
Note: I'm still deciding whether to apply next cycle or not, as I may want a gap year. But everything is pretty much set already and won't change very much. My grades will only go up, not down. :xf:
HYP undergrad. Political Science & Biochemistry. NY resident.
cGPA: 3.75
sGPA: 3.70
MCAT: 36 (12/12/12)
Not the most rigorous schedule, but I've taken MPH (many), MBA (2), and JD (1) courses.
ECs (written as it would be in May 2014; most meaningful underlined):
– 3 years (i.e., since freshman fall) in health services research at powerhouse research center
Publications: 2 published (group), 1 in manuscript (second author)
– 3 years Rubik's Cube club co-president; veteran speedcuber
Average 15 secs (3x3), 6 secs (2x2), 20 secs (3x3 one-handed), ~4-5 minutes (3x3 blindfolded)
– 1.5 years in health systems research with London research group; only briefs, no papers
– 2.5 years op-ed columnist for university newspaper
– 2 year editor for university's health policy law review (peer-reviewed law journal)
– 1.5 years founder/director of Science Olympiad group on campus to host science competitions for high school students (first university to do so)
– 2 year tutor/TA for freshman orgo
– 300 hours volunteering with hunger/homelessness activist group
– 150 hours volunteering at local free clinic
– 50 hours volunteering at hospice
– 30+ hours shadowing in multiple specialties
Unpaid Work Experience:
– 1 year part-time intern for patient advocate lobbyist in state legislature
– 1.5 years part-time intern with legal assistance organization helping local area Medicaid patients
– 3 months intern with health care IT startup
– 3 months [insert summer 2014 internship]
Reaches:
Columbia
Cornell
Harvard
JHU
Penn
Tufts
Yale
Realistic:
BU
Georgetown
Icahn (Mt. Sinai)
NYU
Rutgers RWJ (UMDNJ renamed)
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Stony Brook
Uncertain:
Brown (don't know much about school/area)
Dartmouth (great health policy program but MIDDLE OF EFFING NOWHERE)
UConn (OOS tuition not worth it over SUNY)
SUNY Upstate (idk upstate is weird to us NYCers lol)
Here's my three main things:
- I'm going top-heavy because I'm interested in a research career and also considering an advanced degree in policy, and only the top tiers really offer anything worthwhile for me in the latter. But I don't want to end up with no acceptances or good choices to make for financial reasons at the very least :(
- I also would like to stay in the Northeast for family reasons, and I consider JHU the distance limit; Chicago, St. Louis, etc., are not for me.
- Would it be too risky to leave my list like this? i.e., I really want to go to a private research school for the reasons stated above, but idk about adding more and writing essays/paying app fees for schools I wouldn't really be interested in attending.
I couldn't find any other school on the MSAR that I'm really interested in. Suggestions on schools that I should look around the Northeast would be very appreciated.
Thanks!!
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