Hi :) I'm a MA resident & Asian female, if that counts. I have a diverse set of clinical experiences, but kind of limited research & limited individual volunteering hours but volunteered & showed a "dedication to serving the community" through my sorority.
Academics
3.93 cGPA
3.95 sci GPA.
BS - Health Science major, I go to school locally in Boston, gonna be a senior this fall.
32 MCAT - 11 PS, 9 VR, 12 BS.
- debating on if I should apply & complete my biology minor (I'd have to take biochem my senior spring -_- not exactly what I hoped to be doing that semester).. Any word of advice? I heard the professor teaching biochem here is pretty bad so I'm pretty sure it'd be a waste of my time, & I'd rather take more interesting electives.
- **Used to be a Pharmacy major, switched out before the professional curriculum, after my sophomore year.
Extracurricular Activities
Primarily all within my dedication to my sorority (service & cultural diversity oriented):
- 50 hours of various service events each year (YMCA, Jumpstart, working with community org's, food bank, etc), over 100+ hours total
- Community Service Chair - 2 semesters - organized all the events myself, helped co-organize a blood drive
- Relay for Life Captain for my chapter - 2 years
- Philanthropy chair - 1 semester- organized & held 2 educational awareness workshops on campus for reproductive justice & domestic violence issues in the US, co-organized a bone marrow drive
- General member of my sorority - community service, mentor to younger sisters - 3.5 years
- Webmaster - 2 semesters
- Pan-Asian Council (umbrella group for multicultural groups on campus) representative for my chapter for 1 year
- Treasurer for my sorority 1 semester
- Alumni Relations chair 1 semester
Experiences/Internships
- Pharmacy technician/intern for 3 years at CVS - worked full time 2 summers, 6-10 hours weekly during the school year
- Pharmacy Intern at a Anticoagulation Management Services clinic for 1 summer full time (lots of direct patient contact & counseling on the phone, etc.)
- Patient Operations Assistant in an Operating Room @ a local hospital; 6 months full time - worked with nurses & scrub techs primarily, observed a lot of surgeries, learned sterile technique & how to open rooms, xported patients, etc.
- Shadowing pediatric ENT surgeon @ same hospital - 200-300 hours of shadowing in clinic & OR, regularly shadow weekly for 6+ months.
- Student Research Intern (will be > 6 months by time of application + ongoing over this summer)
-doing retrospective review clinical research with the same surgeon @ same hospital + combining shadowing with it to fully immerse myself into our project, collecting/analyzing data & drafting our publication over the next several months
-Okay/so-so letters of recc from 3 professors
- excellent LOR from the surgeon I'm shadowing/doing research for right now.
- Getting a good LOR from the pharmacist I worked with at CVS. (All going through the Pre-med committee letter @ my school)
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(Sorry for all the text lol)
So, this is kind of annoying because my MCAT makes me a "typical" applicant and now I need to apply very broadly.. Are there any schools I could definitively cross out from this list? Especially with schools who I'm applying out-of-state for?
Also, I would love to stay in the Northeast region (like everyone else..) but am I limiting my list too closely to the Northeast region - NY/MA/PA schools?? I need to apply to OOS friendly schools.
1. UMass
2. NYU
3. BU
4. Tufts
5. Albert Einstein (Yeshiva)
6. Albany Medical College
7. Wake Forest
8. New York Medical College
9. Georgetown
10. George Washington
11. Penn State - 8.5% interviewed out of all out-of-state applicants =\
12. Stony Brook - ?? Am I wasting money here?
13. SUNY Buffalo - ? Am I wasting money here?
14. Rochester
15. Downstate - ? Am I wasting money here?
16. Upstate - ? Am I wasting money here?
17. Jefferson
18. Temple
19. Tulane
20. Drexel
21. St. Louis U
22. Brown
23. University of Vermont
24. University of Miami ...? Their OOS interview percentages are kind of abysmal -_-
25. University of Colorado ??
26. University of Maryland ??
Should I bother with UConn? They have 18% out-of-state students in last year's class.
Any other schools I should add, or should cross out based on out-of-state status (esp. for the NY schools?) ??
Thanks for all the considerations if anyone bothers to read this lol
Academics
3.93 cGPA
3.95 sci GPA.
BS - Health Science major, I go to school locally in Boston, gonna be a senior this fall.
32 MCAT - 11 PS, 9 VR, 12 BS.
- debating on if I should apply & complete my biology minor (I'd have to take biochem my senior spring -_- not exactly what I hoped to be doing that semester).. Any word of advice? I heard the professor teaching biochem here is pretty bad so I'm pretty sure it'd be a waste of my time, & I'd rather take more interesting electives.
- **Used to be a Pharmacy major, switched out before the professional curriculum, after my sophomore year.
Extracurricular Activities
Primarily all within my dedication to my sorority (service & cultural diversity oriented):
- 50 hours of various service events each year (YMCA, Jumpstart, working with community org's, food bank, etc), over 100+ hours total
- Community Service Chair - 2 semesters - organized all the events myself, helped co-organize a blood drive
- Relay for Life Captain for my chapter - 2 years
- Philanthropy chair - 1 semester- organized & held 2 educational awareness workshops on campus for reproductive justice & domestic violence issues in the US, co-organized a bone marrow drive
- General member of my sorority - community service, mentor to younger sisters - 3.5 years
- Webmaster - 2 semesters
- Pan-Asian Council (umbrella group for multicultural groups on campus) representative for my chapter for 1 year
- Treasurer for my sorority 1 semester
- Alumni Relations chair 1 semester
Experiences/Internships
- Pharmacy technician/intern for 3 years at CVS - worked full time 2 summers, 6-10 hours weekly during the school year
- Pharmacy Intern at a Anticoagulation Management Services clinic for 1 summer full time (lots of direct patient contact & counseling on the phone, etc.)
- Patient Operations Assistant in an Operating Room @ a local hospital; 6 months full time - worked with nurses & scrub techs primarily, observed a lot of surgeries, learned sterile technique & how to open rooms, xported patients, etc.
- Shadowing pediatric ENT surgeon @ same hospital - 200-300 hours of shadowing in clinic & OR, regularly shadow weekly for 6+ months.
- Student Research Intern (will be > 6 months by time of application + ongoing over this summer)
-doing retrospective review clinical research with the same surgeon @ same hospital + combining shadowing with it to fully immerse myself into our project, collecting/analyzing data & drafting our publication over the next several months
-Okay/so-so letters of recc from 3 professors
- excellent LOR from the surgeon I'm shadowing/doing research for right now.
- Getting a good LOR from the pharmacist I worked with at CVS. (All going through the Pre-med committee letter @ my school)
-----
(Sorry for all the text lol)
So, this is kind of annoying because my MCAT makes me a "typical" applicant and now I need to apply very broadly.. Are there any schools I could definitively cross out from this list? Especially with schools who I'm applying out-of-state for?
Also, I would love to stay in the Northeast region (like everyone else..) but am I limiting my list too closely to the Northeast region - NY/MA/PA schools?? I need to apply to OOS friendly schools.
1. UMass
2. NYU
3. BU
4. Tufts
5. Albert Einstein (Yeshiva)
6. Albany Medical College
7. Wake Forest
8. New York Medical College
9. Georgetown
10. George Washington
11. Penn State - 8.5% interviewed out of all out-of-state applicants =\
12. Stony Brook - ?? Am I wasting money here?
13. SUNY Buffalo - ? Am I wasting money here?
14. Rochester
15. Downstate - ? Am I wasting money here?
16. Upstate - ? Am I wasting money here?
17. Jefferson
18. Temple
19. Tulane
20. Drexel
21. St. Louis U
22. Brown
23. University of Vermont
24. University of Miami ...? Their OOS interview percentages are kind of abysmal -_-
25. University of Colorado ??
26. University of Maryland ??
Should I bother with UConn? They have 18% out-of-state students in last year's class.
Any other schools I should add, or should cross out based on out-of-state status (esp. for the NY schools?) ??
Thanks for all the considerations if anyone bothers to read this lol