School List Help - CA ORM cGPA 3.78, sGPA 3.75, MCAT 520

[lowlybloodhound]

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[Mr.Smile12]

Research is light, but it's not your weakest point.

Is your volleyball coaching your "community service" activity? What else did you do with underserved youth (if it isn't volleyball)? You don't have any true service orientation experience (alleviating others' distress) where you clearly are stretching outside your comfort zone from what you described.

Any primary care experience? Is all your scribing in ophthalmology?

 

[lowlybloodhound]

Research is light, but it's not your weakest point.

Is your volleyball coaching your "community service" activity? What else did you do with underserved youth (if it isn't volleyball)? You don't have any true service orientation experience (alleviating others' distress) where you clearly are stretching outside your comfort zone from what you described.

Any primary care experience? Is all your scribing in ophthalmology?

Oops, I forgot to mention that it was tutoring and working with the underserved children.

I don't have any primary care experience. All my scribing is with ophthalmology.

 

[chilly_md]

Some schools highly value service, so I would recommend avoiding them.

Try:
UCLA
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCSD
UCR (only if from the IE)
California University SOM
USC - Keck
Kaiser Permanente
Einstein
Hofstra
Rochester
Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai
Colorado
Tufts
Boston University
Dartmouth
Vanderbilt
Emory
Case Western Reserve
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Northwestern
Thomas Jefferson
Brown
Michigan
Virginia
Wisconsin
Mayo
WUSTL
USF Morsani
Iowa

 

[lowlybloodhound]

Some schools highly value service, so I would recommend avoiding them.

Try:
UCLA
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCSD
UCR (only if from the IE)
California University SOM
USC - Keck
Kaiser Permanente
Einstein
Hofstra
Rochester
Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai
Colorado
Tufts
Boston University
Dartmouth
Vanderbilt
Emory
Case Western Reserve
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Northwestern
Thomas Jefferson
Brown
Michigan
Virginia
Wisconsin
Mayo
WUSTL
USF Morsani
Iowa

Thank you for your feedback!

 

[lowlybloodhound]

So my list is now:
UCSF
UCLA
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCSD
UCR
USC - Keck
Kaiser Permanente
Einstein
Hofstra
Rochester
Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai
Cornell
Colorado
Tufts
Boston University
Dartmouth
Vanderbilt
Emory
Northwestern
Thomas Jefferson
Brown
Michigan
Virginia
Wisconsin
Mayo
WUSTL
Thinking of removing due to location:
USF Morsani
Ohio State
Case Western Reserve
Cincinnati
Iowa

This list is very top heavy, especially if I remove the bottom schools. I would also appreciate your feedback @Faha. Thank you so much!

 

[Faha]

So my list is now:
UCSF
UCLA
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCSD
UCR
USC - Keck
Kaiser Permanente
Einstein
Hofstra
Rochester
Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai
Cornell
Colorado
Tufts
Boston University
Dartmouth
Vanderbilt
Emory
Northwestern
Thomas Jefferson
Brown
Michigan
Virginia
Wisconsin
Mayo
WUSTL
Thinking of removing due to location:
USF Morsani
Ohio State
Case Western Reserve
Cincinnati
Iowa

This list is very top heavy, especially if I remove the bottom schools. I would also appreciate your feedback @Faha. Thank you so much!

Keep USF Morsani and Cincinnati. You could add these schools:
Miami
Duke

 

[gyngyn]

Are you from the IE?

 

[lowlybloodhound]

Keep USF Morsani and Cincinnati. You could add these schools:
Miami
Duke

Thank you, I truly appreciate your help.

 

[lowlybloodhound]

Are you from the IE?

No. However, I do have connections to the IE (without exposing too much information). Is it not worth applying to if I’m not from there myself?

 

[chilly_md]

No. However, I do have connections to the IE (without exposing too much information). Is it not worth applying to if I’m not from there myself?

No, it is not. You don't fit their mission then and they likely will think you'd go to a different UC over them.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Oops, I forgot to mention that it was tutoring and working with the underserved children.

I don't have any primary care experience. All my scribing is with ophthalmology.

I suggest you find some time to shadow in primary care (IM, ER). You already have a lot of work with children and youth that peds may marginally help you.

Also tutoring will be valued differently from non-clinical service orientation community service. Ideally, you need to be of service to adults in distress too.

 

[lowlybloodhound]

I suggest you find some time to shadow in primary care (IM, ER). You already have a lot of work with children and youth that peds may marginally help you.

Also tutoring will be valued differently from non-clinical service orientation community service. Ideally, you need to be of service to adults in distress too.

Got it, thanks for your input. The working with underserved children is not purely tutoring, but I understand your point.

If I were to start shadowing for primary care or do community service for adults, I assume that neither of these would be in my application this year due to insignificant hours at the time of submission. Are these for in case I need to re-apply, or just for my general exposure?

 

[lowlybloodhound]

No, it is not. You don't fit their mission then and they likely will think you'd go to a different UC over them.

Understood. Unfortunately, I also don't have much faith in any of the other UCs taking me lol

 

[chilly_md]

Got it, thanks for your input. The working with underserved children is not purely tutoring, but I understand your point.

If I were to start shadowing for primary care or do community service for adults, I assume that neither of these would be in my application this year due to insignificant hours at the time of submission. Are these for in case I need to re-apply, or just for my general exposure?

Shadowing someone in primary care even for around 15-20 hours is still worth putting on this year's app if you can get it.

 

[lowlybloodhound]

Shadowing someone in primary care even for around 15-20 hours is still worth putting on this year's app if you can get it.

Would it be worth submitting my application later in order to get this shadowing? I would definitely have to in order to get the shadowing in.

 

[chilly_md]

Would it be worth submitting my application later in order to get this shadowing? I would definitely have to in order to get the shadowing in.

Submitting at the end of June would still be fine considering your higher stats.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Ask your ophthalmologists if there is a primary care colleague they can ask to arrange for shadowing.