cranialnerve6
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1. GPAs
Undergraduate cGPA: 3.603
Undergraduate sGPA: 3.523
Masters: 4.00
MCAT: 526 (132, 131, 132, 131)
3. State of Residence
MD Resident
4. Ethnicity/Race
White/Caucasian
5. Institutions
Undergraduate: University of Maryland, College Park
Undergraduate cGPA: 3.603
Undergraduate sGPA: 3.523
Masters: 4.00
- Undergraduate GPA Note: Significant Upward Trend (from between 1.9 - 2.7 first four semesters to 4.0 until graduation, 150+ credits of 4.0); failed 3 classes, and W from 1. Lots of Cs for the first two years. Repeated 2 pre-med courses because of C-
- As you will see below, my first two years as an undergraduate were very unbalanced for the sake of a better term. I was heavily focused on conducting research and often neglected my classes to do research. Though, I did eventually figure out how to balance everything, my GPA was simply too low for too long to bring up drastically despite 5 semesters of straight As.
MCAT: 526 (132, 131, 132, 131)
3. State of Residence
MD Resident
4. Ethnicity/Race
White/Caucasian
5. Institutions
Undergraduate: University of Maryland, College Park
- Triple Degree (Graduated in 4.5 Years)
- BS, Bioengineering + Minor, Computer Engineering
- BS, Biochemistry
- BS, Neuroscience
- MS, Neural Engineering
- Neurosurgery Volunteer at 2 Hospitals ~ 1,000 hours
- Pediatric Emergency Department Volunteer at 1 Hospital ~1,000 hours
- Published 27 papers primarily focused on translational projects and systematic reviews in neurosurgery (1st author for a majority of the projects)
- Helped write 4 NIH grants with the guidance of my PI
- Mentored 15 underclassmen by teaching them lab techniques and helped them expand their ideas on research to run their own projects
- Presented at numerous conferences & organized a conference for several undergraduate institutions to present undergraduate research together
- Neurosurgery Observer (OR and clinic) at 3 Hospitals for a total of ~2,000 hours
- Neurosurgery Observer (OR and clinic) at 3 Hospitals for a total of ~2,000 hours
- Founded student organization to organize field trips to hospitals for middle school and high school students
- guest speaker at high school on topics related to biomedical engineering and how to get involved in research in college
- President & Editor-in-Chief of an undergrad research journal
- Founder & President of a neuroscience journal club
- University ambassador for an international premed conference (3 years)
- Founder & CEO of non-profit that pairs patients with pen pals
- Founder & CEO of non-profit that mentors high schoolers interested in pre-med
- Athlete for Club Boxing (3 years) and Club Soccer (2 years)
- Undergraduate honors college citation & honors thesis (completed & published with a group of 7, second author)
- 3 Undergraduate research awards
- Several awards at neurosurgical research conferences and undergraduate symposiums/research days
- Neuroscience Honor Society - Nu Rho Psi
- bioethics competition finalist
- medical ethics essay competition winner
- Took two gap years to 1) stay an additional semester to complete three degrees and 2) to complete masters
- applying both md and md-phd