Date OptomCAS submitted: 8/27/20
Date verified: 8/28/20
OAT Scores: 320 AA/TS
Major: Health Science
GPA (Overall/Science): 3.6 overall/3.4 science
Schools applied: so many lol - ICO, MCPHS, AZCOPT, CCO, NOVA, NECO, SCCO, SCO, SUNY, UMSL, Western U
Interviews extended/date: ICO (9/14), MCPHS (9/3), CCO (9/4), AZCOPT (8/31), NECO (9/4), SCCO (9/10), SCO (9/10), SUNY (9/8), UMSL (9/11), Western U (9/14)
Interviews accepted/date: ICO (haven't picked a date yet), MCPHS (9/10), CCO (9/14), AZCOPT (9/16), SCO (9/29), SCCO (9/24), UMSL (9/25) NECO (10/2), Western U (10/16), SUNY (10/19)
Interviews declined/date: ICO (ICO was very hard to contact and its making me mad so im just dropping that one), not sure about NOVA yet, they messed up my application (twice) and have also been hard to contact so might turn them down if i get an interview too
Rejections/date: -
Acceptance/date: MCPHS (9/16), CCO (9/16), AZCOPT (9/24), SCCO (9/25), UMSL (9/25)
extracurricular activities: worked for an optometrist for almost 2 years, volunteered through adapted gymnastics and adapted sports in columbia, went on a medical brigade to ghana, africa, member of sigma eta rho (health science fraternity), pre-optometry club vice president, intramural soccer team captain, sorority philanthropy and social chair, phi sigma theta member (national honor society)
will keep updating as interview more
right now im super torn between SCCO & AZCOPT!!! my other top school that i haven't interviewed with yet would probably be NECO - gonna be a tough choice:/