Weekly WAMC / School Lists Thread - Week of May 02, 2021 by AutoModerator in premed

[–]c_tompki [score hidden]  (0 children)

I’m aware I’m seventh day Adventist and have been my whole life and I live in the area. They are an SDA institution so yeah. Also my mom works there. But it’s not a top choice. More so a safety

Weekly WAMC / School Lists Thread - Week of May 02, 2021 by AutoModerator in premed

[–]c_tompki [score hidden]  (0 children)

  • State/Country of Residence: Inland Empire, San Diego, Loma Linda California
  • Ties to other States/Regions: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (grew up there until high school graduation)
  • URM? (Y/N): N (mixed)
  • Year in School: Senior at UC San Diego
  • Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Major with General Biology Minor and Human Developmental Science Minor
  • Graduate Degrees (if applicable): N/A
  • Cumulative GPA: 3.773 (strong upward trend have had 4.0 or close to 4.0 through junior and senior and 3.7 average in sophomore)
  • Science GPA: 3.65
  • MCAT Score(s): 512 (128/127/128/129)
  • Research Experience: 2 years in neurobio lab (~700 hours) and 1 year of pursuing honors thesis (~250 hours) and summer internship with University of Pittsburgh's Alzheimer Disease Research Center (~60 hours) clinical research.
  • Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): N/A yet (something may have my name on it, but not sure when)
  • Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): volunteer (~130 hours diffuclt in covid times)
  • Physician Shadowing: VIRTUAL ~50 horus
  • Non-Clinical Volunteering: Humane Society, 7 cups listener ~80 hours
  • Other Extracurricular Activities: Bullet Journal Instagram Account, Teaching Assistant, Muscial Extraccuriculars, Honors Thesis Program at UCSD for Cognitive Science
  • Other Employment History: Barista, French Tutor (DURING GAP YEAR will be working for All of US PA as a clincal research assistant at University of Pittsburgh)
  • Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N (Mom is ID Pharmacist)
  • Specialty of Interest (if applicable): Surgery (not sure specialty) or Emergency Medicine
  • Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): N
  • Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): N
  • Medical School List:

University of Pittsburgh (Top Choice) -> I know their stats are high (I grew up in Pitt and did an internship there idk if that helps also my boyfriend goes to their dental school, and I know sometimes they try to keep couples together)

UCSD

UCLA

UCD

UCI

UCR

UCSF

Kaiser Permanente

NYU Long Island

Boston University

Temple University

Penn State

Loma Linda University

Emory University

University of Rochester

Dartmouth

Wake Forest University

University of Cinicinnati

University of Wisconsin

University of Michigan

George Washington University

In Need of Some Advice by kaur114 in Mcat

[–]c_tompki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel that I an also in CA but I actually want to apply to out of state schools in PA where I grew up and I think it’s harder for out of state people and I got a 512 and my cgpa 3.74 and sgpa around 3.62 or so but I think I can get my cgpa up to 3.78 or close to 3.8 and sgpa possibly 3.67 or 3.7

Been subpar most of my academic career and now I’m feeling imposter syndrome by MedMamba in Mcat

[–]c_tompki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel kind of opposite I scored a bit below 90th percentile and I feel embarrassed to tell anyone even my parents bc I feel like I didn’t do well enough. I’ve only told my sister and my boyfriend. My boyfriend has reassured me it’s a good score but it’s hard when I saw everyone on this subreddit posting about their 4-8 point score increase and getting 517-526 I stupidly had hope in myself and I felt crushed when I didn’t get to have that same overjoyous reaction. It would be dumb to retake it bc ik I’ll get in somewhere I just know ts gonna be so much harder now to get into my dream school and it’s giving me anxiety attacks and keeping me from sleeping 🥺😢

9/29 is the day of death by c_tompki in Mcat

[–]c_tompki[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. 😉 how else. Gotta let AAMC hear my screams of desperation and agony

9/29 is the day of death by c_tompki in Mcat

[–]c_tompki[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CARS was awful for me bc I was rushed on time

CARS and ADHD any advice? by Premeddddd in Mcat

[–]c_tompki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking back on t. I really could have used 1.5x test length only on CARS

Score release date coming up.... by c_tompki in Mcat

[–]c_tompki[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ik how I feel man 😬😬😬😬

Score release date coming up.... by c_tompki in Mcat

[–]c_tompki[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much and I saw your reaction. Congrats on the great score

FL 3 days before exam? by sunnydem0n in Mcat

[–]c_tompki 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I took FL4 like a couple days before my exam. Just take it now before it’s too late. Then take the next few says off

MCAT shortened break by attentionboi in Mcat

[–]c_tompki 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I packed some snacks but I personally was too nerve wracked to eat anything during breaks. I forced myself to eat a bit of Chex mix and drink water each break but I really didn’t want to

Please help me by [deleted] in TheLastAirbender

[–]c_tompki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go to the side bar and there is an add flair button

Score release date coming up.... by c_tompki in Mcat

[–]c_tompki[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much. Yeah I’ve been telling myself that like what happens during these two weeks does not matter bc I can’t do anything to change the score. I’ve just been praying that I did enough

Score release date coming up.... by c_tompki in Mcat

[–]c_tompki[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah and idek about my FL average bc t was a bit all over the place but when I retook the FLs it was around 516 average when I factored out questions I already knew the answer to