3.9 GPA, sorta non-trad

[Neuralbunny]

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[MT2MD]

I honestly think if you continue your volunteering work and shadow a couple of doctors, you can get into any medical schools you want. Your stats are competitive everywhere!!!

 

[Neuralbunny]

Thanks, MT2MD, I appreciate that! Does it look like I have a decent mix of "reach" and "match" schools (not gonna call them safeties because I don't think there's really any such thing as a safety in med schools 😉)? Anything else I should add/take off?

Anyone else wanna chime in? Thanks in advance 😀

 

[Neuralbunny]

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[Catalystik]

At a minimum, shadow a primary care doc for 30 hours before you submit.

Utah expects 500 hours of community service. Of those UColorado accepts, 75% had another career first. They prefer to see 500 hours of clinical exposure (though don't explicitly say it's required). Brown has historically accepted mostly applicants from their region; plans were in place to generalize their acceptances, but I don't know if that started yet.

Otherwise, I think the list is fine.

Working with senior citizens in a lab setting may well be looked at as clinical experience also, so you're not as weak as you thought. Emphasize that component in your description.

 

[Neuralbunny]

At a minimum, shadow a primary care doc for 30 hours before you submit.

Utah expects 500 hours of community service. Of those UColorado accepts, 75% had another career first. They prefer to see 500 hours of clinical exposure (though don't explicitly say it's required). Brown has historically accepted mostly applicants from their region; plans were in place to generalize their acceptances, but I don't know if that started yet.

Otherwise, I think the list is fine.

Working with senior citizens in a lab setting may well be looked at as clinical experience also, so you're not as weak as you thought. Emphasize that component in your description.

Thanks a bunch Catalystik, that really helps! I don't really have much hope that I'll get in to Utah, for the reason you mentioned, but I'd rather go elsewhere anyway. I wasn't aware of that about UColorado, but Brown's "Facts and Figures" makes it look like they've got a decent geographical distribution, so I'll probably keep it on the list.

That's exciting news about the work I did with senior citizens! With regard to the psychology research, how would you recommend that I categorize it then? I was going to call it "Employment" since it was not based on my own hypothesis but rather that of the grad student I was under, and I was not involved in data analysis; should I call it something else instead? Thanks!

 

[Catalystik]

Designating it as Employment is fine if you had no creative input into the process. Maybe name it something like 'Clinical Research Assistant in Healthy Aging Project' (or whatever) and then in the description make it very clear how much interaction you had with the seniors you worked with and exactly what you did.

 

[Neuralbunny]

Thank you very much!