Sakkarai7481
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Hi all! I am a reapplicant who applied in 2022-23 without much success. I am two years out of college, and I used my time in my gap years to work extensively in clinical research and build up my volunteer hours a bit more. I also had to retake my MCAT due to my old score expiring. Although I technically live in Massachusetts right now, it doesn't count for UMass since I haven't lived here long enough, and I don't have any other in-state residency It would be amazing to get some help and insights into my chances and my school list for this cycle!
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
- 3.83 cGPA and 3.85 sGPA
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown
- 522 (132/128/132/130)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
- MA (but doesn’t count for UMass)
- Ethnicity and/or race
- Asian, ORM
- Undergraduate institution or category
- UVA
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer) (~1800 hours total)
- ~300 hours total clinical volunteering
- ~1500 hours clinical research (peri-operative research studies involving blood/drug orders, cognitive assessments, data collection in OR/ICU, and extensive patient interaction)
- Research experience and productivity (~4700 hours total)
- 700 hours working in undergrad nephrology lab, 1 poster at my undergrad
- 4000 hours working in clinical research lab, 4 posters (3 at my institute, 1 at national conference), presenting author, 1 first author & 2 middle-author manuscripts in review stage
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented (~250 hrs total)
- 200 hours, nephrology and transplant departments at my undergrad hospital
- ~50 hours, shadowing in OR, primarily cardiac cases
- Non-clinical volunteering (~300 hours total)
- 100 hours working with international service/aid organization I helped found in college
- 150 hours volunteering at food kitchen, nursing homes, and medical camps through local service org
- 50 hours virtually working with another international service org
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- President of undergrad a cappella group
- Founded a chapter of an international service org at my undergrad
- TA for 3 semesters (physiology and biotransport)
- Relevant honors or awards
- Rodman Scholar (Top 5% of admitted students in engineering school at UVA)
- Bronze Presidential Volunteer Award at current institution
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- Undergrad major: biomedical engineering
- Boston University
- Carle Illinois
- Columbia
- Duke
- Drexel
- Einstein
- EVMS
- Geisinger
- Georgetown
- GW
- Harvard
- Kaiser Permanente
- Michigan
- Mount Sinai
- Mayo Clinic (Phoenix)
- NYMC
- NYU Grossman
- Pitt
- SUNY (Either Up/Downstate)
- Tufts
- Temple
- UChicago
- UIC
- UMD
- UMass
- UVA
- UVM
- VCU
- Virginia Tech Carilion
- Western Michigan