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OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS

August 2019

UMASS School of Medicine matriculates our 50th class!

Inside this issue:

Public

2

presentations

Research

Community

Service

Volunteerism

Military Ser-

vice

Bacc MD Pro-

3

gram

Honors/

Awards

Hobbies/

Artistic

Endeavors/

Under the guidance of Mariann Manno, MD, Associate Dean for Admissions

Admissions

4

Staff

and Prematriculation Programs, the Admissions Committee selected 162

students for matriculation into the first year class of the School of Medicine. Our

class was chosen from 4,094 applications.

About the First Year

Class Composition:

MD-MA

108

Top 10 Undergraduate Schools Represented BY First Year class

? Boston College ? Boston University

UMMS Baystate (PURCH)

28

Students

Health Science Preparatory

3

Program

Baccalaureate MD Program

2

MD-Non MA

45

MD/PhD

9

Total Matriculates 162

Average Total GPA: 3.77

? Brown University

? C o l l e g e o f t h e H o l y C r o s s Graduates of UMASS

? Georgetown University

system

Average MCAT: 88th

19

percentile

? Harvard University

Students from groups

14

? N o r t h e a s t e r n U n i v e r s i t y under -represented in

? Tufts University

medicine

? University of California ? University of

Massachusetts

Economically and/or

24

educationally disadvantaged

Average age:

24

Gender mix

98F 64M

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2nd Look Day 4/5/2019

ANNOUNCING THE SOM CLASS OF 2023!

First year students served on the planning committee to create a dynamic recruitment day for accepted applicants:

Alice Berenson Amberly Diep

Jacob Maalouf Sheikh Moinul

Hans Erickson

Leslie Panella

Meghan Harrington Alexandra Rabin

Rose Healy

Simone Thibault

Jason Lui

Megan Yuen

Publications/Presentations/Research

Impulsive Choice and BMI: An fMRI Study-NIH Postbac Poster Day Implantable Device for Male Birth Control, McGill University Skin Cancer Prevention Presentations-University of Texas Cholinergic Signaling in Myelination-NIH Senior Thesis: Rare Earth Metal RecyclingWPI Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Endocarditis-Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Affordable Care Act Presentation-Children's Hospital, Oakland, CA 2018 IMPACT Program Presenter and Student Profile, Cavanaugh Council and President's Circle, Notre Dame, IN UMASS Medical School SRFP Poster Presentation-NIH, Washington, DC Drug Discovery and Pharmacognosy Research-MUSC College of Pharmacy, Charleston, SC Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Research Day

Military Service

Cryptologic Technician-US Navy 325th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Batallion-Puerto Rico National Guard

Community Service /Volunteerism

Global Medical Brigade to Nicaragua UMASS volunteer and Camp Discovery Counselor

EMT for Brown University Emergency Medical Services

Hospital Volunteer with UCLA Care Extender Program

Baystate Franklin Medical Center Volunteer Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research-research volunteer, Los Angeles

American Red Cross Club at Yale University

National Alliance on Mental Illness-Helpline Nursing Home Volunteer-Glamour Gals, Nashville, TN

Senior Counselor, Philipinos for Community Health, Los Angeles, CA

Playspace Activities Leader-Horizons for Homeless Children, Roxbury, MA

Thanksgiving Soup Kitchen and Midnight Run Volunteer French-American School of New York Appalachia Volunteers of Boston College Super Dog Adoption Day Volunteer, Always Adopt, RI Volunteer-Johns Hopkins Animal Necropsy Service San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce Suffolk House of Corrections GED Tutor-Boston MA

AUGUST 2019

UMMS Baccalaureate MD Pathway

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Left photo (left to right): Sarah Ferreira (MS1) and Amberly Diep (MS2) during their BLS Training during the BaccMD Summer Clinical Immersion Experience. Right photo (left to right): Richard Macdonald (MS1), Ernesto Barbosa and Michael Pires during Summer Enrichment Program closing program.

Honors/Awards/Recognitions

Eagle Scout Award with Gold Palm, Boy Scouts of America, Egg Harbor Township, NJ

2nd Years Host the Annual Massachusetts Outdoor Experience (MOE) to welcome Incoming 1st Years!

Salisbury Prize-Worcester Polytechnic Institute Crispell Forbes/Ferber Memorial Award Recipient, Washington DC

10 Years in Girl Scouting Award, Girls Scouts of the USA Medical Scribe of the Year, Scribe America, Worcester, MA Pennsylvania State University Academic Excellence Scholarship

AWHwinaonrbderb, Iineausg/urAalrIntfiescttiiocusEDnisedaseeaMvaopprisng Challenge-US State

Dept., Washington DC

Hobbies/Artistic Endeavors:/Athletics

New York Road Runners Member WPI Ultimate Frisbee Dandiya Rass Dance Troupe UCLA Marching Band-Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corp, Concord, CA Barefoot Monkeys Circus and Fire Arts Troupe-Vassar College Tufts Women's Rugby Football Club Mimes and Mummers-Fordham University Harvard Fallen Angles A Cappella Professional level culinary technique training-International Culinary Center, New York, NY Brown University Fusion Orchestra Public Relations Chair

University of Massachusetts School of Medicine Office of Admissions Room S1-300 55 Lake Ave, North Worcester, MA 01655

Phone: 508-856-2323 FAX: 508-856-3629 Email: admissions@umassmed.edu Website:

Admissions Office Staff: Mariann Manno, MD Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine Associate Dean for Admissions-School of Medicine and Prematriculation Programs

Karen Lawton, MBA Director of Admissions

Paul Charles, BA Program Coordinator, Baccalaureate MD Program

Brenda Fusaro Interview Coordinator

Jennifer Lee Shea, MTA Admissions Coordinator

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UMMS Welcomes the Class of 2023!

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