skylinechili
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Looking for more suitable mid-tier schools to add! Finished 31 secondaries so far, 7 more to go, would like a handful of more feasible schools to add late
Will definitely finishing UIC and Loyola, thinking the other unfinished ones are donations either way. Considering adding Rush and Tulane?
Currently completed:
1. UMich
2. UA Phoenix
3. NYU-LI
4. SLU
5. USF Morsani
6. Weill Cornell
7. Mount Sinai
8. Johns Hopkins
9. UChicago-rejected post-secondary
10. Georgetown
11. Rochester
12. WUSTL
13. Hofstra
14. UVA
15. UPitt
16. Columbia
17. Wisconsin
18. Mayo
19. Iowa
20. Tufts
21. USC
22. UCSD
23. UCLA
24. Harvard
25. Einstein
26. Northwestern
27. Brown
28. Indiana
29. Dartmouth
30. Cincinnati
31. Boston
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.87 and 3.83
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 520: 131/128/129/132
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): Indiana, Chicagoland suburbs
- Ethnicity and/or race: ORM
- Undergraduate institution or category: UC school
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 1500+ hours ED scribe, 50 hours as scribe for a free clinic serving the houseless, 500+ hours scribing for primary care clinic serving elderly/Medicaid patients (gap year) 150+ hours as a PCT at a surgery center
- Research experience and productivity: zero. i feel like this making my app DOA at a lot of schools
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 20 (nephro/surgery)
- Non-clinical volunteering: + 250 hours leadership (director position) (with 150+ hours as a volunteer) of nutrition focused nonprofit, 100 hours tutoring for disadvantaged students, 100 hrs food bank (including nutrition education), 100 hrs VP of healthcare org focused on free BLS classes and access to healthcare training, 75 hrs food not bombs volunteer serving houseless community, 100 hours TEDx conference organizer
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): 400 hours gen chem tutor/TA, 300 hours AmeriCorps service focused on food access, 350+ hours as MCAT tutor. Gap year/currently: scribing for primary care clinic focusing on medically underserved community + MCAT tutor for prep company. Would like to add more shadowing and research.
- Relevant honors or awards: nothing besides dean's honors
- Anything else not listed you think might be important: Service narrative esp with food access/nutrition (I think) and I'm passionate about improving social determinants of health and education access. PS is currently centered around forming connections with the community I serve and I'm very set on primary care as of now. Biggest problem I think for me right now is decent but not mind-blowing stats and mediocre profile otherwise w/ no research and a very top-heavy school list.
Will definitely finishing UIC and Loyola, thinking the other unfinished ones are donations either way. Considering adding Rush and Tulane?
Currently completed:
1. UMich
2. UA Phoenix
3. NYU-LI
4. SLU
5. USF Morsani
6. Weill Cornell
7. Mount Sinai
8. Johns Hopkins
9. UChicago-rejected post-secondary
10. Georgetown
11. Rochester
12. WUSTL
13. Hofstra
14. UVA
15. UPitt
16. Columbia
17. Wisconsin
18. Mayo
19. Iowa
20. Tufts
21. USC
22. UCSD
23. UCLA
24. Harvard
25. Einstein
26. Northwestern
27. Brown
28. Indiana
29. Dartmouth
30. Cincinnati
31. Boston