Applying this upcoming cycle, WAMC+ school list feedback

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Ngr35 said:
  1. cGPA: 4.0, sGPA:4.0
  2. MCAT: 520 (132/128/130/130)
  3. State of residence: Illinois
  4. Caucasian, male
  5. Undergraduate institution: State school
  6. Clinical experience: 280 hrs paid as EKG tech, 80 hrs on a clinical mission trip, 30 hrs as intake volunteer, 80+ hrs as a biomedical tech intern
  7. Research experience: 500+ hrs with a poster presentation at a conference
  8. Shadowing experience: 80-100 hrs across orthopedic surgery, electrophysiology, and pediatrics
  9. Non-clinical mission trip abroad, soup kitchen volunteer, 40 hrs as chem mentor
  10. Other extracurricular activities: not sure if I should include this but I play in basketball tournaments for money during the school year
  11. Deans list every semester
  12. Applying for Army HPSP scholarship
School List:
1. New York University School of Medicine (3.92, 521)- New York, NY

2. Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (3.91, 521)- St. Louis, Missouri

3. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (3.88, 520)- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4. Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (3.78, 516)-Hempstead, New York

5. Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine (NEW)- Oakland, California

6. Baylor College of Medicine (3.92, 518)- Houston, TX

7. Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (3.82, 518)- Cleveland, OH

8. Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai (3.87, 519)

9. University of Illinois College of Medicine (3.73, 512)- Chicago, IL

10. Southern Illinois University (3.72, 506)- Carbondale, IL

11. University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver School of Medicine (3.83, 514)- Iowa City, IA

12. University of Virginia School of Medicine (3.91, 519)- Charlottesville, VA

13. Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (3.62, 509)- North Chicago, IL

14. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (3.91, 521)

15. Ohio State University College of Medicine (3.85, 516)- Columbus, OH

16. University of Michigan Medical School (3.88, 518)- Ann Arbor, MI

17. Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine (3.79, 510)- Charleston, SC

18. Harvard Medical School (3.92, 519)- Boston, MA

19. Yale School of Medicine (3.88, 521)- New Haven, CT

20. University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine (3.78, 513)- Miami, FL

21. Medical College of Wisconsin (3.79, 511)-Milwaukee, WI

22. Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine (3.91, 520)

23. Tufts University School of Medicine (3.73, 514)- Boston, MA

24. Weill Cornell Medicine (3.87, 519)- New York, NY

25. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (3.94, 520)- Baltimore, MD

26. Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University (3.74, 514)- Philadelphia, PA

27. Stony Brook University School of Medicine (3.82, 514)- Stony Brook, NY

28. Duke University School of Medicine (3.88, 519)- Durham, NC

I appreciate any input on my application strength and weaknesses and would really like feedback on my school list! Thanks for any help!​
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I think many applicants would kill for stats like yours. As long as you don't have red flags, decent essays, and dont come across as a doorknob during interviews, I think you could get in anywhere.

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Where do you live in IL? SIU has very specific attendance focus. How come no University of Chicago? I’d take Rosalind Franklin off your list. Did you use the MSAR to check on OOS statistics for public schools? Your mission trips to foreign countries aren’t impressive to many ADCOMS. It’s better to find unserved/underserved right in your own community. You should get off campus and out of your comfort zone and show your altruism. You really haven’t done much of that. How many hours do you have in the soup kitchen? You need at least 150 + hours in both clinical and nonclinical experience. You have enough shadowing. I’m not sure what a biotech intern is but you most likely have enough clinical experience. The main thing is to keep acquiring experiences. Don’t stop just because you have “enough”. Always plan for a reapplicationtion.
 
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Where do you live in IL? SIU has very specific attendance focus. How come no University of Chicago? I’d take Rosalind Franklin off your list. Did you use the MSAR to check on OOS statistics for public schools? Your mission trips to foreign countries aren’t impressive to many ADCOMS. It’s better to find unserved/underserved right in your own community. You should get off campus and out of your comfort zone and show yourvaltruism. You really haven’t done much of that. How many hours do you have in the soup kitchen? You need at least 150 + hours in both clinical and nonclinical experience. You have enough shadowing. I’m not sure what a biotech intern is but you most likely have enough clinical experience. The main thing is to keep acquiring experiences. Don’t stop just because you have “enough”. Always plan for a rePplication.
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Rural IL. Both the intake volunteering and biomedical tech internship were with a free health clinic in my own community if that’s what you mean? And yes I know I need to get more experiences so I appreciate that input!


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I suggest the following:
Do not count the mission trip as non-clinical volunteering; we view as tourism, unless it was for a prolonged time overseas. Get in more service to others here in the US
School List:
1. New York University School of Medicine (3.92, 521)- New York, NY
2. Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (3.91, 521)- St. Louis, Missouri
3. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (3.88, 520)- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4. Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (3.78, 516)-Hempstead, New York
7. Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (3.82, 518)- Cleveland, OH
8. Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai (3.87, 519)
9. University of Illinois College of Medicine (3.73, 512)- Chicago, IL
10. Southern Illinois University (3.72, 506)- Carbondale, IL (ONLY IF YOU'RE FROM SOUTHERN ILL)
11. University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver School of Medicine (3.83, 514)- Iowa City, IA
12. University of Virginia School of Medicine (3.91, 519)- Charlottesville, VA
14. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (3.91, 521)
15. Ohio State University College of Medicine (3.85, 516)- Columbus, OH
16. University of Michigan Medical School (3.88, 518)- Ann Arbor, MI
18. Harvard Medical School (3.92, 519)- Boston, MA
19. Yale School of Medicine (3.88, 521)- New Haven, CT
20. University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine (3.78, 513)- Miami, FL
22. Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine (3.91, 520)
23. Tufts University School of Medicine (3.73, 514)- Boston, MA
24. Weill Cornell Medicine (3.87, 519)- New York, NY
25. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (3.94, 520)- Baltimore, MD
26. Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University (3.74, 514)- Philadelphia, PA
28. Duke University School of Medicine (3.88, 519)- Durham, NC


ADD:
Case
Emory
Dartmouth
Einstein
Western MI
Rochester
Keck
U VM
Stanford
U Chicago
 
Doing my best to get more non-clinical volunteering—-hoping not having a ton of it won’t completely kill my application. I’m going to get as much as possible before applying. Thanks a lot!


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You need more clinical and nonclinical volunteering. Get 150+ hours of each and you're golden. If you took a gap year and did something like Americorps, you'd become a very attractive applicant for top-20 schools.
 
I don’t think you need to apply to more than 20 schools.
 
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