Medical Any weaknesses in my application?

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Goro

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Hi guys,

I am planning on applying to medical school next cycle and would really appreciate some feedback on my extracurriculars as well as the schools I am applying to

  1. cGPA: 3.95 and sGPA: 3.95
  2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 517
  3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): NC
  4. Ethnicity and/or race: Chinese
  5. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 500 hours of hospital volunteering for 4 years
  6. Research experience and productivity: 800 hours of research for 2 years, no pubs
  7. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 70 hours across a variety of specialties
  8. Non-clinical volunteering: 150 hours for 2 years
  9. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): President of neighboorhood table tennis club
  10. Relevant honors or awards: none
  11. Anything else not listed you think might be important: none
Schools:
Wake Forest
ECU
UNC
Duke
Campbell
EVMS
UVA
VCU
Virginia Tech

Thanks!
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No need for CUSOM.
Suggest getting in more non-clinical service to others less fortunate than yourself.

I suggest:
NYU
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
U Chicago
U Penn
Northwestern
Columbia
Harvard
Stanford
Mayo
Cornell
Sinai
BU
U VA
Duke
Baylor
Case
UCSF
U MI
Albert Einstein
Hofstra
Ohio State
Pitt
U Cincy
USF Morsani
Dartmouth
Rochester
USC/Keck
Western MI
Emory
Jefferson
Miami
SLU
Tufts
U IA
U VM
Your state schools
Va Tech ONLY if you are from rural western NC
 
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Be sure that your physician shadowing includes primary care, ideally an office-based doc so you can get a view of longitudinal care. If you want a decent shot at ECU, you should include a rural practice.

Teaching (TA, tutor, mentor, coach) also adds value to your application. So does peer leadership, where you organize others and delegate tasks, while taking overall responsibility for the end results. Maybe President of the Table Tennis Assoc qualifies for this.

Any posters or podium presentations of your research? That helps, too.

Honors/Awards can include scholarships based on college merit, research grants you wrote for and were awarded, Deans List, Phi Beta Kappa.
 
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