Hello,
As the title says I have a 3.594 GPA (hoping to get above a 3.6 this semester) and got a 522 MCAT (132/128/131/131). I am looking for help on what schools I should apply to, hoping to get between 15-25 good options. I'm currently a junior at OSU, and would absolutely love to get into OSU. My advisor says I probably only have ~70% chance due to a lack of non-clinical volunteering and extracurriculars. Here are my stats:
Cumulative GPA: 3.594 (Hoping to get this above 3.6 this semester, I averaged a 3.2 freshman year and a 3.8 for sophomore and Junior fall semester)
Science GPA: 3.59
MCAT Scores: 522 (132/128/131/131)
Research – I'm going to estimate ~1-2000 hours. No publications, unfortunately, but researched under the head of psychology for OSU for 2 years now. Researching schizophrenia using microdialysis.
Volunteering (clinical) – 140 Hours at Grant Hospital
Physician shadowing – 30 Hours - ~26 for neurosurgery (~5 of those for clinic days) and ~4 for orthopedic surgery. (Going to try to get 50 hours before I apply)
Non-clinical volunteering - Only 20 hours so far. Joined Camp Kesem over the summer (as a camp counselor for kids who have a parent with cancer), joined my neuroscience honorary and doing any volunteering opportunities I can for that.
Extracurricular activities - Very little, mostly just research, volunteering, my honorary.
Employment history - Nothing relevant, odd jobs as a bus boy/inventory management for my school.
Please include time span and weekly commitment for volunteering/research/shadowing/extracurriculars.
Research - 2 years, ~30 hours/week over the summer (50hr/week this summer), ~15 hr/week during school
Clinical volunteering - 1 year, 5hr/week initially, now 3hr/week
Nonclinical volunteering - Usually only 2-3 hr/week, with some opportunites
Immediate family members in medicine? No, I would be the first MD in my immediate family history
Specialty of interest - Neurosurgery, but I am keeping an open mind to all fields
Shadowing experience - Orthopedic surgery and Neurosurgery
Graduate degrees - None
Interest in rural health (y/n) - Open to the concept, so yes.
And here is my preliminary list of schools to apply:
In State:
Ohio State (#1 choice)
Case Western
Northeast Ohio Medical University
University of Toledo
University of Cincinatti
Wright State
Out of State
Albany Medical College
Boston University
Drexel University
Eastern Virginia
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Georgetown University
Lewis Katz at Temple University
Loyola University
University of South Carolina
New York University
Thomas Jefferson University
Brown University
USF Health Morsani
University of Colorado
University of Michigan
University of Vermont
University of Washington
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Tech
Wright State
Are there any schools that I should add/remove? (I really would rather go east coast or stay in Ohio, unless a fantastic opportunity comes)
As the title says I have a 3.594 GPA (hoping to get above a 3.6 this semester) and got a 522 MCAT (132/128/131/131). I am looking for help on what schools I should apply to, hoping to get between 15-25 good options. I'm currently a junior at OSU, and would absolutely love to get into OSU. My advisor says I probably only have ~70% chance due to a lack of non-clinical volunteering and extracurriculars. Here are my stats:
Cumulative GPA: 3.594 (Hoping to get this above 3.6 this semester, I averaged a 3.2 freshman year and a 3.8 for sophomore and Junior fall semester)
Science GPA: 3.59
MCAT Scores: 522 (132/128/131/131)
Research – I'm going to estimate ~1-2000 hours. No publications, unfortunately, but researched under the head of psychology for OSU for 2 years now. Researching schizophrenia using microdialysis.
Volunteering (clinical) – 140 Hours at Grant Hospital
Physician shadowing – 30 Hours - ~26 for neurosurgery (~5 of those for clinic days) and ~4 for orthopedic surgery. (Going to try to get 50 hours before I apply)
Non-clinical volunteering - Only 20 hours so far. Joined Camp Kesem over the summer (as a camp counselor for kids who have a parent with cancer), joined my neuroscience honorary and doing any volunteering opportunities I can for that.
Extracurricular activities - Very little, mostly just research, volunteering, my honorary.
Employment history - Nothing relevant, odd jobs as a bus boy/inventory management for my school.
Please include time span and weekly commitment for volunteering/research/shadowing/extracurriculars.
Research - 2 years, ~30 hours/week over the summer (50hr/week this summer), ~15 hr/week during school
Clinical volunteering - 1 year, 5hr/week initially, now 3hr/week
Nonclinical volunteering - Usually only 2-3 hr/week, with some opportunites
Immediate family members in medicine? No, I would be the first MD in my immediate family history
Specialty of interest - Neurosurgery, but I am keeping an open mind to all fields
Shadowing experience - Orthopedic surgery and Neurosurgery
Graduate degrees - None
Interest in rural health (y/n) - Open to the concept, so yes.
And here is my preliminary list of schools to apply:
In State:
Ohio State (#1 choice)
Case Western
Northeast Ohio Medical University
University of Toledo
University of Cincinatti
Wright State
Out of State
Albany Medical College
Boston University
Drexel University
Eastern Virginia
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Georgetown University
Lewis Katz at Temple University
Loyola University
University of South Carolina
New York University
Thomas Jefferson University
Brown University
USF Health Morsani
University of Colorado
University of Michigan
University of Vermont
University of Washington
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Tech
Wright State
Are there any schools that I should add/remove? (I really would rather go east coast or stay in Ohio, unless a fantastic opportunity comes)
