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Hello! I'm planning on applying during the 2022-2023 application cycle and was hoping to get feedback on my activities before then. I'm currently most worried about the hours/strength of my clinical experience and nonclinical volunteering, although I believe I can speak and write strongly about both. Thank you so much in advance!
(All hours represented below are completed/do not include projected hours)
cGPA: 3.92
sGPA: 3.90
aoGPA: 4.0
(Will be taking MCAT in January 2022, will post formal WAMC then)
Undergraduate major: Data science
Year in school: First-semester junior, graduating in May 2023
Shadowing experience and specialties represented:
Clinical experience, volunteer or paid:
- Primary care -- 20 hours over 1 month
- Hematology-oncology -- 80 hours over 1 month
- Total: 100 hours
Non-clinical volunteering:
- Patient transport volunteer -- 96 hours over 3 months
- Free clinic volunteer -- 216 hours over 1 year (mix of in-person interaction with patients and remote phone calls)
- Total: 312 hours
Research experience and productivity:
- Soup kitchen volunteer -- 144 over 1 year
- Total: 144 hours
Leadership:
- Behavioral neuroscience lab since high school -- 2,080 hours over 6.5 years (part-time over the summer and during breaks)
- 2 first-author publications
- 2 poster presentations
- Independent public health research project -- 288 hours over 1.5 years
- Plenary talk presentation at national statistics conference
- Total: 2,368 hours
Other extracurriculars:
- Residential hall president -- 1,260 hours over 1.5 years
- Total: 1,260 hours
Non-clinical employment:
- Data science club secretary -- 270 hours over 2.5 years
- Residential hall treasurer -- 72 hours over 1 year
- Total: 342 hours
Relevant honors or awards:
- Dining hall worker -- 192 hours over 1 year
- Total: 192 hours
Hobbies:
- 1st place in national statistics competition
- Merit scholarship
- Ping-pong
- Hiking
Your clinical experience is great.
Nonclinical volunteering should be increased. You should have a minimum of 150 hrs of that. 200 would be super.