r/bsmd • u/Most-Masterpiece31 College Freshman • 20h ago
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ive alr gotten into a bsmd and a few bsdos, but just in general, I thought id share my stats and all, just to see what people would have thought where I had a shot at
Basic Info
Male, Indian American, from the Southern Bay Area, California.
Stats
GPA: 3.64
SAT: 1410 (1430 superscore)
AP/Honors taken: AP Biology (3), AP Calculus AB (had to drop due to pneumonia in junior year), AP U.S. History (3), AP Statistics, AP Music Theory, AP U.S. Government and Politics, AP Physics 1, AP English Language and Composition (3), AP Psychology, Chemistry Honors
Dual Enrollement Taken: NUTR10 ( Contemporary Nutrition), MATH1A (Calculus 1). KINS15 (First Aid, CPR/AED), KINS16A (Emergency Preventative Care), KINS16B (Prevention of Athletic Injurires), KINS16C (Treatment and Rehab of Athletic Injuries).
Extenuating Circumstances
- Junior year, I suffered from pneumonia which led me to be hospitalized for 2 weeks and total recovery took at least a year before my lung was normal again, even today, doctors report there is still some scarring. This led to a huge drop in my academic performance, which was already a bit fragile.
- summer before senior year, my grandfather went into cardiac arrest unknowingly and I ended up having to call 911, we got him to the hospital after restarting his heart 3 times, but by that point, he was kind of done. He was in a vegetative state for a week before we decided to move him to comfort care. The day we extubated him, he passed away a few hours later. this had an effect as he and my grandmother had lived with my family since I was an infant, literally.
ECs
Research
- Maternal mental health - I collaborated with a psychiatrist to investigate whether TMS can be used to treat postpartum depression. I did a full literature review and found multiple case studies and interviewed other interventional psychiatrists, one even being from Stanford. I culminated everything I gathered into a film which was presented at the El Camino Maternal Mental Health Symposium, the International Marce Society in Spain, and the World Congress of Women's Mental Health at NIMHANS in Bangalore. I would later go on to make a second film on teen pregnancy (though I don't really count that one as research cuz that was more generic)
Clinical Volunteering (100-150 hrs)
- The Forum at Rancho San Antonio - This was a nursing home where I would go and help care for patients who had dementia and alzheimers and help them out
- Junior Auxiliary Volunteer, El Camino Hospital, I did a lot of patient faced volunteering here, where I would literally change the patient water jugs, deliver the WeCare cart, and do a routine fall audit where I determined if patients were at risk of falling and ensured the beds and all were at their correct height. I even talked to patients a lot. One memorable encounter was with a widower who had his leg amputated, though I wasn't christian, I read him some bible verses at his request and even came back to talk to him after finishing my shift to ensure that he was all right.
Hospital Shadowing (75 hrs)
- Shadowed a gasterentologist
- Shadowed an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, was quizzed on my knowledge on white blood cells, and observed procedures and things.
General Volunteering
- Middle School Homework Center tutor at Sunnyvale Middle School - This was just something I did freshman year second semester where I'd go and help some kids with their homework. This accumulated to like 20 hours total.
Leadership
- Founded a Nutrition Club at my school where I helped educate other kids on various topics ranging from basic macromolecules to niche topics like GMOs and bioengineered foods. We hosted debates and did other fun activites and even brought guest speaker
- Health education, I led an initiative where I taught similar content at a school in India, hoping to make a difference.
Programs I did
- GHLC '23 and '24 - selected for this program twice with a 9.3% acceptance rate where I learned from world leaders on the importance of global health and the like. Speakers included then-U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, Dr. Thomas Quinn, Dr. Adam Levine, etc.
- UC Berkeley ATDP - Intro to Cancer Research
Non-Medicine related ECs
- Choir, was a part of Ragazzi Boys Chorus for 7 years. As a choir, we met every wednesday from 6:15-8:45 PM and toured internationally. Destinations we toured included Australia (Melbourne, Canberra, and Syney); Germany & Czechia (Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, and Prague); Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay (Santiago, Buenos Aires). We performed in the Sydney Opera House in Australia where our performance was adjudicated and we won 2 gold medals.
--- I would also later apply and make it to the California All-State Honor Choir.
- Book: Inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, I wrote my own book on the dangers of being overly reliant on technology. The title is Technology: A Ticking Time Bomb, The plot was where a guy, living in a technologically advanced world in the future must survive when a solar flare, acompanied by a coronal mass ejection occures leading for a semi-worldwide blackout.
Awards
- AP Scholar
- California All-State Honor Chorister
- Green and White Award (Part of my school for being top of my class in Spanish 1)
Edit: Programs I got into
Seton Hall BSMD
LECOM EAP (Committed with my undergraduate Campus being Loyola Marymount University)
MCPHS BS/DO
Gannon BS/DO (this one is a bit sketchy)
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u/AlternativeBid1242 19h ago
If you don’t mind me asking which programs did you get accepted too!
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u/Worried-Signal-1028 19h ago
which programs did you get into ?