BrainRavens
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Hello all,
I'm doing the thing and looking for feedback. I took the MCAT a few days ago and still waiting on scores, but I'd appreciate any feedback in the meantime to allay my fears and worries.
I believe I've followed the formatting correctly, but please correct me if I've missed anything. Any and all suggestions are welcome and appreciated, but pls be gentle.
I did some basic snooping and used admit.org and have the current school list (as a very rough draft):
Sincere thank-you to anyone who gets this far, and for any feedback or pearls of wisdom.
I'm doing the thing and looking for feedback. I took the MCAT a few days ago and still waiting on scores, but I'd appreciate any feedback in the meantime to allay my fears and worries.
I believe I've followed the formatting correctly, but please correct me if I've missed anything. Any and all suggestions are welcome and appreciated, but pls be gentle.
- Haven't gotten AMCAS calculations yet, but cumulative stands about 3.84 and science about 3.88 by my calculations.
- FWIW, my GPA has been a perfect 4.0 for the entirety of the second degree. Straight A's going back years now, so there's a pronounced trend.
- MCAT scores are still being waited on. Last few FL's were 516, 517, 520, 524, 522 for the AAMC's.
- New York resident.
- White.
- Two undergrad degrees; one in literature from university of Oklahoma, the other a physical therapy degree from City University of New York.
- Clinical experience, I have about 1,000 hours of one-on-one patient contact as a physical therapist, as well as some clinical exposure as part of a research project working in the emergency department directly with patients.
- I've done a bit of research: working in the emergency department of a hospital as part of an opioid intervention analysis, a bit of work with my home college looking at brown adipose tissue in various human populations, and I was recently accepted for a summer program at an ivy league institution where I will be doing work looking at cardiometabolic stuff. About 600 hours total, likely a poster, no pubs.
- Shadowing about 60 hours. Some GP, some emergency department, a small fraction virtual.
- I spent years volunteering with at-risk youth as part of a mentoring program. More than a thousand hours, easily.
- I was a high school teacher for 5 years in an inner-city, high-poverty environment. The school I worked at won multiple awards, and I won teacher of the year. I taught a handful of subjects across the science and language departments.
- I don't know how relevant, but as leadership I've considered adding that I spent about 15 years teaching, and training, martial arts. Everything from local tournaments to professional fighters, I worked, taught, ran a school, trained, everything. It's been years ago now, but it made up a large part of my life for a long time.
- I graduated magna cum laude for my first degree, and summa cum laude for my most recent degree (first in my class). A lot of Dean's list.
- X-factor stuff: I grew up super poor, highly rural environment. Was a ward of the state, spent time in foster care, was homeless for a bit. My early childhood was a wild ride in a number of ways. First in my family to attend, or graduate, college.
I did some basic snooping and used admit.org and have the current school list (as a very rough draft):
- Safety (as much as anything can be 'safe'):
- Albany.
- Buffalo.
- SUNY Upstate.
- SUNY Downstate.
- Penn Sate.
- George Washington.
- Drexel.
- Vermont.
- Colorado.
- St. Louis.
- Wayne State.
- Creighton.
- Michigan.
- Nova Southeastern.
- Virginia.
- Reach:
- Columbia.
- NYU.
- Cornell.
- Hopkins.
- Harvard.
- Yale.
- UPenn.
- Duke.
- Stanford.
- Dartmouth.
- Georgetown.
- Baseline:
- Albert Einstein.
- NY Medical College.
- Icahn.
- Rochester.
- Hofstra.
- Stony Brook.
- UT Austin.
- Boston.
- Northwestern.
- Pittsburgh.
- Mayo Clinic.
- Tufts.
- Brown.
- Iowa.
- Case Western.
Sincere thank-you to anyone who gets this far, and for any feedback or pearls of wisdom.