这位小白,加州居民,今年春季从UCLA毕业,stats看起来也好,令人吃惊人家申请了40个学校,有小中申请这麽多的?
早早的(7/14)就收到NYU的secondary,而不少人至今还翘首以盼。
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- 3.94 cGPA, 3.9 sGPA
- MCAT: 524 (131/131/130/132)
- Clinical volunteering: 230 hours
- 50 hours in a hospice
- ~180 hours at the local VA hospital (on pause currently because COVID-19)
- Nonclinical volunteering: 140 hours completed, 290 hours projected
- 40 hours as a Special Olympics coach (6 months)
- 50 hours at a food bank in my hometown (1 summer)
- 50 hours by the time I apply as a Crisis Text Line volunteer (project to get >200 hours by matriculation)
- Research: 3 years in a psych lab - no pubs, but presented 3 posters at local conferences, and authored another poster and 2 symposiums that were presented by my PI at a large national conference
- Shadowing: 45 hours (primary care)
- Other: ran a marathon, have a part-time job as a front desk receptionist for two years (promoted to supervisor after one year)
- Awards: won Best Abstract on one of my posters, will graduate summa cum laude
- I'm generally a pretty good writer and I think my LORs should be pretty solid (2 BCPM, 1 non-BCPM, 1 MD, 1 PI)
Here's the school list I built based on MSAR:
Stanford |
UC San Diego |
UC San Francisco |
Southern Cal-Keck |
Kaiser |
UC Irvine |
UC Davis |
UCLA-Geffen |
UC Riverside |
Cal U Science and Medicine |
Colorado |
Yale |
Georgetown |
USF |
U Iowa |
Chicago-Pritzker |
Northwestern-Feinberg |
Harvard |
Tufts |
Johns Hopkins |
Michigan |
Western Michigan |
WashU |
Duke |
North Carolina |
New York University |
Columbia |
Hofstra |
Icahn |
Einstein |
Ohio State |
Case Western Reserve |
Cincinnati |
Oregon |
Perelman |
Vanderbilt |
Virginia |