medicalstudent79
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Hi! I'd love to hear 1) suggested MD and DO schools to apply to and 2) any recommendations to make my application/EC's stronger. Thanks so much!
- cGPA: 3.57 sGPA: 3.56
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 1/2022: 499 (125,124,125,125) --> 1/2023: 504 (126,125,127,126)
- State of residence: North Carolina
- Ethnicity and/or race: White
- Undergraduate institution or category: Davidson College (#15 Liberal Arts school in the country)
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
- 300+ clinical volunteering hours at Atrium Health and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
- Research experience and productivity
- Current post-bacc IRTA at the National Institutes of Health, anticipating 4,000+ hours
- Going to present 2 posters this spring
- Currently writing 1 systematic paper with my PI, planning to submit for publication this spring
- Will write 1 paper next fall with my research group, will probably submit for publication next spring
- ~500 hours of undergraduate research at Davidson College
- 2 poster presentations
- 1 paper currently under review
- Current post-bacc IRTA at the National Institutes of Health, anticipating 4,000+ hours
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- 10 hours of internal (only during clinic)
- 10 hours of oral and maxillofacial surgery (during clinic hours and procedures)
- 100 hours of plastic surgery (only during surgeries)
- 20 hours of ENT (only during clinic)
- 30 hours of neurology/neurosurgery (during clinic and surgeries)
- 20 hours of orthopedic (only during clinic)
- Non-clinical volunteering
- ~100 hours of non-clinical volunteering at Ada Jenkins, Earlier.org (finding an earlier detection for breast cancer), and soccer clinics in the Davidson community
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- D1 scholar-athlete, ~5,000 total hours
- Selected as tutor for an upper-level mathematics course, ~200 hours
- Mathematics major
- Relevant honors or awards
- Selected to the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll all 4 years of undergraduate (basically a way to recognize scholar-athletes who maintained high a GPA during each school year)
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- Upward GPA trend during undergraduate
- Have really great LOR's
- My science GPA would be a 3.79 if it didn't include all of my impossible math major courses :/
- i.e. I did very well in my biology, chemistry, and physics classes
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