1. GPA:4.0
2. 520 (132/127/131/130)
3. Canadian and American citizen, birthplace of Delaware.
4. South Asian
5. Queen's University in Canada, majoring in Health Sciences
6. Clinical:
Volunteer at an addiction clinic (160 hours) creating and iterating an intake form for patients based on interactions between patients and clinicians
Outpatient physiotherapist volunteer (30 hours) where we help recently out of knee replacement surgery patients through exercises.
Plan on increasing this to 250 hours this summer volunteering at a long term care home.
7. Research:
700 hours in basic science research studying Alzheimer's using in vivo NMR (3 conference abstracts accepted where 2 are international and 1 local (first author on 2 and second author on 1), 1 poster presentation at the conference (1st author))
400 hours in a dry lab that is policy/advocacy-based research identifying gaps in Canadian healthcare relative to WHO guidelines for those experiencing deafblindness (1 conference abstract like 4th author, 2 publications in the pipeline where I'd be middle author in both).
Plan on increasing to 1800 this summer doing clinical research at BWH, Boston.
8. Shadowing:
17 hours for orthopedic surgeon
Plan to get this to 50 hours total shadowing neurologist, nephrologist, and/or vascular surgeon.
9. Non-clinical volunteering:
Football coach (10 hours)
Club member donating extra food from our dining halls to homeless shelters (20 hours)
Best Buddies volunteer (90 hours)
Vaccine clinic volunteer mostly sanitation and patient flow (24 hours)
High school tutor (65 hours).
Plan to get this to 250 hours total working at soup kitchen this summer.
10. Other ECs:
Introductory biochemistry TA (65 hours) where I created exam questions, led review sessions, and marked assignments
Leader of STEM-based outreach initiative on campus and did a whole bunch of stuff with this like created own programs focusing on scientific literacy for high school students and partnering with libraries to discuss topics like inclusivity in STEM and climate change (740 hours)
11. Awards: 2 research scholarships for this summer, Dean's list with distinction all years undergrad up to now, 1st place oral presentation,2 other research based scholarships, high school valedictorian (do I include this?)
School List (USMD only since that's what I'm more concerned about):
Stanford
Harvard
JHU
Duke
Northwestern
Cornell
U Chicago
Columbia
Mayo Clinic
UPenn
Michigan
University of Pittsburgh
Ohio State
Stony Brook
Case Western
Tulane
Tufts
Einstein
Dartmouth
Mount Sinai.
I know it's top heavy, but I approached it as schools I would pick over Canadian ones if by some miracle I get into both. How does it look? Any recommendations?
Thank you for all your help! I look forward to learning from you.
2. 520 (132/127/131/130)
3. Canadian and American citizen, birthplace of Delaware.
4. South Asian
5. Queen's University in Canada, majoring in Health Sciences
6. Clinical:
Volunteer at an addiction clinic (160 hours) creating and iterating an intake form for patients based on interactions between patients and clinicians
Outpatient physiotherapist volunteer (30 hours) where we help recently out of knee replacement surgery patients through exercises.
Plan on increasing this to 250 hours this summer volunteering at a long term care home.
7. Research:
700 hours in basic science research studying Alzheimer's using in vivo NMR (3 conference abstracts accepted where 2 are international and 1 local (first author on 2 and second author on 1), 1 poster presentation at the conference (1st author))
400 hours in a dry lab that is policy/advocacy-based research identifying gaps in Canadian healthcare relative to WHO guidelines for those experiencing deafblindness (1 conference abstract like 4th author, 2 publications in the pipeline where I'd be middle author in both).
Plan on increasing to 1800 this summer doing clinical research at BWH, Boston.
8. Shadowing:
17 hours for orthopedic surgeon
Plan to get this to 50 hours total shadowing neurologist, nephrologist, and/or vascular surgeon.
9. Non-clinical volunteering:
Football coach (10 hours)
Club member donating extra food from our dining halls to homeless shelters (20 hours)
Best Buddies volunteer (90 hours)
Vaccine clinic volunteer mostly sanitation and patient flow (24 hours)
High school tutor (65 hours).
Plan to get this to 250 hours total working at soup kitchen this summer.
10. Other ECs:
Introductory biochemistry TA (65 hours) where I created exam questions, led review sessions, and marked assignments
Leader of STEM-based outreach initiative on campus and did a whole bunch of stuff with this like created own programs focusing on scientific literacy for high school students and partnering with libraries to discuss topics like inclusivity in STEM and climate change (740 hours)
11. Awards: 2 research scholarships for this summer, Dean's list with distinction all years undergrad up to now, 1st place oral presentation,2 other research based scholarships, high school valedictorian (do I include this?)
School List (USMD only since that's what I'm more concerned about):
Stanford
Harvard
JHU
Duke
Northwestern
Cornell
U Chicago
Columbia
Mayo Clinic
UPenn
Michigan
University of Pittsburgh
Ohio State
Stony Brook
Case Western
Tulane
Tufts
Einstein
Dartmouth
Mount Sinai.
I know it's top heavy, but I approached it as schools I would pick over Canadian ones if by some miracle I get into both. How does it look? Any recommendations?
Thank you for all your help! I look forward to learning from you.
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