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Applying in 2021 to (hopefully) matriculate in 2022—I would greatly appreciate honest feedback on my ECs/where I could improve my app!
3.96 cGPA, 4.0 sGPA
MCAT: 526 (132/130/132/132)
MA resident, ties to CA and CO
White
T40 undergrad
Clinical experience: 900 hours as a medical assistant in a primary care clinic, 100 hours volunteering at local hospital, 200 hrs as a physical therapy intern in a Parkinsons clinic in Spain.
Research experience and productivity: 300 hrs in cancer immunotherapy lab, 300 hrs in a translational neuroscience lab, projected 2000 hours in lab researching ovarian cancer by the time I apply (no pubs yet, really hoping to get one during my gap year). Will it hurt my app if I don't have any pubs by the time I apply?
Shadowing experience and specialties represented: projected 20 hrs in family medicine, 8 hours in ER (is this enough?)
Non-clinical volunteering: 100 hours with organization that empowers young girls + encourages healthy eating and exercise, 500 hours volunteering with hospitalized children, creating craft kits for them to play with, and cooking meals for their families (so I guess this would be clinical and non-clinical? it has aspects of both. i also held a leadership position within this organization)
Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): 200 hrs as tutor for student athletes, 300 hrs as EMT instructor (I have my EMT license but have never worked on a truck), 1600 hrs as a student representative for my school's financial aid office (work study job), member of a sorority
Relevant honors or awards: summa cum laude, dean's list, recipient of multiple scholarships for unpaid internships and working abroad
**I never took the second semester of orgo, so that has narrowed my school list a bit (only includes schools that don't require two semesters of orgo)
My list so far (would love suggestions—due to financial reasons I can't apply to much more than 30 so I'm looking to take a few schools off this list):
-UMass
-BU
-Tufts
-Harvard
-Brown
-NYU Grossman
-Cornell
-Yale
-UPenn
-Georgetown
-George Washington
-U Maryland
-Duke
-Vanderbilt
-UMiami
-UNC Chapel Hill
-UCSD
-UCLA
-UCSF
-USC
-UC Irvine
-Stanford
-UMichigan
-U Chicago
-Rosalind Franklin
-Wake Forest
-U Toronto
-Emory
-John Hopkins
-Kaiser Permanente
-Tulane
-WashU St. Louis
Applying in 2021 to (hopefully) matriculate in 2022—I would greatly appreciate honest feedback on my ECs/where I could improve my app!
3.96 cGPA, 4.0 sGPA
MCAT: 526 (132/130/132/132)
MA resident, ties to CA and CO
White
T40 undergrad
Clinical experience: 900 hours as a medical assistant in a primary care clinic, 100 hours volunteering at local hospital, 200 hrs as a physical therapy intern in a Parkinsons clinic in Spain.
Research experience and productivity: 300 hrs in cancer immunotherapy lab, 300 hrs in a translational neuroscience lab, projected 2000 hours in lab researching ovarian cancer by the time I apply (no pubs yet, really hoping to get one during my gap year). Will it hurt my app if I don't have any pubs by the time I apply?
Shadowing experience and specialties represented: projected 20 hrs in family medicine, 8 hours in ER (is this enough?)
Non-clinical volunteering: 100 hours with organization that empowers young girls + encourages healthy eating and exercise, 500 hours volunteering with hospitalized children, creating craft kits for them to play with, and cooking meals for their families (so I guess this would be clinical and non-clinical? it has aspects of both. i also held a leadership position within this organization)
Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): 200 hrs as tutor for student athletes, 300 hrs as EMT instructor (I have my EMT license but have never worked on a truck), 1600 hrs as a student representative for my school's financial aid office (work study job), member of a sorority
Relevant honors or awards: summa cum laude, dean's list, recipient of multiple scholarships for unpaid internships and working abroad
**I never took the second semester of orgo, so that has narrowed my school list a bit (only includes schools that don't require two semesters of orgo)
My list so far (would love suggestions—due to financial reasons I can't apply to much more than 30 so I'm looking to take a few schools off this list):
-UMass
-BU
-Tufts
-Harvard
-Brown
-NYU Grossman
-Cornell
-Yale
-UPenn
-Georgetown
-George Washington
-U Maryland
-Duke
-Vanderbilt
-UMiami
-UNC Chapel Hill
-UCSD
-UCLA
-UCSF
-USC
-UC Irvine
-Stanford
-UMichigan
-U Chicago
-Rosalind Franklin
-Wake Forest
-U Toronto
-Emory
-John Hopkins
-Kaiser Permanente
-Tulane
-WashU St. Louis
