Hi all, I posted a WAMC on here a few weeks ago, and it really helped me understand what goes in to making a school list. I did some more research on programs and location and mission, and I came up with an updated list. I was wondering if I could get your opinion on my list as it stands and if you have any suggestions. Thanks so much!
Demographics: Senior at top 20 school, white male from NJ
Major: Anthropology; Minor: History
cGPA: 3.92
BCPM: 3.90
MCAT: 519
LizzyM score: 76.2; WARS score: 87
Research: Worked in a lab for 2.5 years, ~800 hours overall. No publications or anything like that, but my gap year job is going to be clinical research which will give about 2000 more hours
Clinical volunteering: Volunteer EMT since high school (~2000 hours), Summer volunteering in an oncology ward (~120 hours), Volunteered at a free HIV/STI clinic (~75 hours)
Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties: Urology (~200 hours), Ophthalmology (~225 hours), Emergency medicine (~60 hours)
Non-clinical volunteering: President of a large university service organization in a disenfranchised community where I have volunteered as a tutor in local high school (~320 hours), Helped form and now lead a program that teaches CPR to students at underfunded public high schools for free for which I received a grant (~75 hours)
Other activities: VP for pre-professional fraternity, TA for my school's human anatomy course
I'm strongly considering going for an MD/MPH, so I'm mainly focusing on schools that offer that dual-degree.
Schools on my list:
Demographics: Senior at top 20 school, white male from NJ
Major: Anthropology; Minor: History
cGPA: 3.92
BCPM: 3.90
MCAT: 519
LizzyM score: 76.2; WARS score: 87
Research: Worked in a lab for 2.5 years, ~800 hours overall. No publications or anything like that, but my gap year job is going to be clinical research which will give about 2000 more hours
Clinical volunteering: Volunteer EMT since high school (~2000 hours), Summer volunteering in an oncology ward (~120 hours), Volunteered at a free HIV/STI clinic (~75 hours)
Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties: Urology (~200 hours), Ophthalmology (~225 hours), Emergency medicine (~60 hours)
Non-clinical volunteering: President of a large university service organization in a disenfranchised community where I have volunteered as a tutor in local high school (~320 hours), Helped form and now lead a program that teaches CPR to students at underfunded public high schools for free for which I received a grant (~75 hours)
Other activities: VP for pre-professional fraternity, TA for my school's human anatomy course
I'm strongly considering going for an MD/MPH, so I'm mainly focusing on schools that offer that dual-degree.
Schools on my list:
- Harvard
- UPenn
- WashU
- Yale
- Columbia
- Duke
- Chicago
- Johns Hopkins
- Michigan
- NYU
- Vanderbilt
- Pitt
- Cornell
- Northwestern
- Emory
- Mt. Sinai
- GW
- UVA
- VCU
- University of Maryland
- Rutgers (NJMS and RWJ)
- Temple
- University of Miami
- Stony Brook
- Jefferson
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