Hello,
I'm in the middle of wrapping up secondaries, but I'm wondering if I went a little too top-heavy with my list. I really want to be starting medical school next fall. I REALLY do not want to be a reapplicant so I want to make sure I'm not shooting myself in the foot.
Here's some info:
cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS: 3.8 cGPA, 3.74 sGPA
MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 516 (128/127/130/131)
State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): I'm originally from Vermont, but I've lived in Colorado for the past two years.
Ethnicity and/or race: Half black/half white (but I'm light-skinned/racially ambiguous)
Undergraduate institution or category: University of Vermont (music theory and composition major)
Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
1250 Hours of scribing for a surgical sub-specialty
900 Hours of ski patrolling for a major western resort. Led the entire patrol in most medical calls responded to for the 2019-2020 season (75). Atypical premed experience, but it was fantastic and I marked it as most meaningful.
Volunteer: no clinical volunteering. Was never scheduled for the hospital volunteering I signed up for.
Non-clinical volunteering:
250 hours + 100 future hours volunteering for a sexual assault hotline (talking to survivors in distress, going to SANE exams etc.)
30 hours + 200 future hours as a crisis text line volunteer (just started this in May. Have completed 30 hours of training, done about 25 hours and have committed to 200 hours in total over this upcoming year)
5 hours tutoring an inner-city high school kid who lived in government housing (hours are low due to frequent cancellations/conflicts).
Shadowing: 20 hours split between family medicine and emergency medicine.
Research experience and productivity: zip/nada. I was a music major and at this point, I won't be able to get any.
Anything else not listed you think might be important: Not sure if this all matters but I'll be the first person in my family to go into medicine. Both of my parents only graduated high school and I'm an only child. Also, my parents had significant health issues while I was growing up. Both of them have been disabled since I was 13. Mom had two strokes during brain surgery and my dad is a disabled veteran.
Here are the schools I've applied to and I'm about to finish secondaries on (I have less than 10 left):
So yeah. Wondering if I went too top-heavy or if I should add some additional schools? Also not sure if I should apply DO or not.
I'm in the middle of wrapping up secondaries, but I'm wondering if I went a little too top-heavy with my list. I really want to be starting medical school next fall. I REALLY do not want to be a reapplicant so I want to make sure I'm not shooting myself in the foot.
Here's some info:
cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS: 3.8 cGPA, 3.74 sGPA
MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 516 (128/127/130/131)
State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): I'm originally from Vermont, but I've lived in Colorado for the past two years.
Ethnicity and/or race: Half black/half white (but I'm light-skinned/racially ambiguous)
Undergraduate institution or category: University of Vermont (music theory and composition major)
Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
1250 Hours of scribing for a surgical sub-specialty
900 Hours of ski patrolling for a major western resort. Led the entire patrol in most medical calls responded to for the 2019-2020 season (75). Atypical premed experience, but it was fantastic and I marked it as most meaningful.
Volunteer: no clinical volunteering. Was never scheduled for the hospital volunteering I signed up for.
Non-clinical volunteering:
250 hours + 100 future hours volunteering for a sexual assault hotline (talking to survivors in distress, going to SANE exams etc.)
30 hours + 200 future hours as a crisis text line volunteer (just started this in May. Have completed 30 hours of training, done about 25 hours and have committed to 200 hours in total over this upcoming year)
5 hours tutoring an inner-city high school kid who lived in government housing (hours are low due to frequent cancellations/conflicts).
Shadowing: 20 hours split between family medicine and emergency medicine.
Research experience and productivity: zip/nada. I was a music major and at this point, I won't be able to get any.
Anything else not listed you think might be important: Not sure if this all matters but I'll be the first person in my family to go into medicine. Both of my parents only graduated high school and I'm an only child. Also, my parents had significant health issues while I was growing up. Both of them have been disabled since I was 13. Mom had two strokes during brain surgery and my dad is a disabled veteran.
Here are the schools I've applied to and I'm about to finish secondaries on (I have less than 10 left):
| UVM |
| Colorado |
| Utah |
| BU |
| Rosalind |
| Columbia |
| Hofstra |
| Drexel |
| Emory |
| Quinnipiac |
| Dartmouth |
| Georgetown |
| Harvard |
| Mt Sinai |
| Indiana |
| Kaiser |
| USC |
| Mayo |
| NYMC |
| NYU |
| Northwestern |
| Ohio State |
| Stony Brook |
| Rush |
| St Louis |
| Jefferson |
| Downstate |
| Tufts |
| Tulane |
| UCLA |
| UCSD |
| UCSF |
| UChicago |
| Pitt |
| Rochester |
| UVirginia |
| Vanderbilt |
| Weill Cornell |
So yeah. Wondering if I went too top-heavy or if I should add some additional schools? Also not sure if I should apply DO or not.
