Chance me: Targeting computational neuropsychiatry for the 2027 cycle without a gap year. Looking for a realistic check on my list given multiple B/B+ chemistry prereq grades.

Stats & Metrics

• MCAT: 518 (130/129/129/130) retake from a 512.
• GPA/School: 3.79 overall, a little lower sGPA. Neuro/Chem double major at T30 public undergrad. Scattered B/B+ grades in chemistry (Orgo I/II, Inorganic, Analytical). Upward trajectory with A/A- in Biochem and Anatomy/Physiology.

Experience Highlights

• Research: 1,925 total hours across three labs.
  • 1,100+ hours training machine learning models (transformers/LSTMs) to predict adolescent schizophrenia risk via EEG.
  • Full-time summer undergraduate research program at a top-tier medical center doing computational pathology scripting.
  • ~400 hours wet-lab rodent behavioral assays.
• Outputs: 7 total poster/abstract presentations, 1 oral presentation. Co-first author on an electrophysiological biomarker paper submitted to Nature Portfolio.
• Fun project: Engineered a 4-lead dry EEG machine using an Arduino for a self-taught AI accessibility project.
• Clinical & Leadership: 175 hours clinical EEG/fMRI data acquisition with pediatric cohorts (as clinical hours with participant interaction talking about health). 150 hours university hospital volunteering. President of a campus mental health club 501(c)(3) ($10k grants, IRB submissions)and president of the neuroscience honors society.

School List

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Boston University Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine
• Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
• Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
• Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
• Duke University School of Medicine
• Emory University School of Medicine
• Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Harvard Medical School
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
• Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
• Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
• Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Stanford University School of Medicine
• The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
• Tufts University School of Medicine
• Tulane University School of Medicine
• University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine
• University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
• University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
• University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
• University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
• University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
• University of Michigan Medical School
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
• University of Washington School of Medicine
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
• Weill Cornell Medicine
• Yale School of Medicine

Lmk what you think