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Updated to reflect MCAT score. Thank you to everyone for your feedback and guidance!
UNC
Duke (Doubt I have the stats)
Wake Forest
ECU
Campbell
USUHS
Georgetown
VCU
Eastern Tennessee
Drexel
Emory
Dartmouth
GWU
Temple
Vermont
Rutgers (went to high school in NJ)
Brown
UAB (went to elementary and middle school in AL)
UF
USF
Vanderbilt
WVU
Any help towards building out my school list would be greatly appreciated. I'll update my final MCAT once I get my score back. Unfortunately, I have to submit my school list prior to knowing my score, so I'm providing a FL average. I expect to score around a 510 at this point.
Thank you for any and all help!
- cGPA: 3.46; sGPA: 3.73; Post-bac: 4.0 (3.9 if you factor in military coursework from ILE); Masters: 3.99 (Biomedical Engineering)
- MCAT: 509
- State of residence: North Carolina
- White
- West Point (Undergrad was in International Relations and International Law)
- Clinical experience: 2000+ paid hours as a 911 Paramedic. 500 hours as an EMT-B.
- Research experience: 250 hours. All fieldwork. Publication won't be for a few years due to the nature of the research.
- Shadowing experience: 36 hours. All EM.
- Non-clinical volunteering: Started a local chapter for a stillbirth awareness/ support/ provider education organization. CPR instruction for the National Scout Jamboree.
- Other extracurricular activities: 13+ years of military service. Special Operations Civil Affairs. Lots of community engagement, refugee, clinic rehabilitation program work abroad for the US military, to include coordinating with the UN sectors for Syrian IDP camps. MSF Motorcycle Coach. Technical Diver. Private pilot.
- Relevant honors or awards: Eagle Scout. Several awards from undergrad in Social Science. 1st place in NCSU's eGames for efforts to develop a pathway to market for a compact junctional tourniquet. Audience choice award for a dose-limiting syringe invention pitch. Patent pending on same.
- Anything else not listed you think might be important: I'm an older applicant in my mid-30's. My post-bac coursework plans were derailed by COVID. I was attending a community college near DC as I was simultaneously attending a military course away from home. With COVID, I was recalled to my home station and had to withdraw from the courses. AAMC then rescheduled my MCAT to a date right in the middle of a deployment to Afghanistan. Despite what AAMC says on their website, there were no MCAT testing centers in Afghanistan during the summer and fall of 2020. I would have loved to have just done a formal post-bac, but I had a service obligation to the military. Lastly, my wife is a med student at a local med school and we have a one year old. Should I mention these last two factors in my application or would it hurt my chances?
UNC
Duke (Doubt I have the stats)
Wake Forest
ECU
Campbell
USUHS
Georgetown
VCU
Eastern Tennessee
Drexel
Emory
Dartmouth
GWU
Temple
Vermont
Rutgers (went to high school in NJ)
Brown
UAB (went to elementary and middle school in AL)
UF
USF
Vanderbilt
WVU
Any help towards building out my school list would be greatly appreciated. I'll update my final MCAT once I get my score back. Unfortunately, I have to submit my school list prior to knowing my score, so I'm providing a FL average. I expect to score around a 510 at this point.
Thank you for any and all help!
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