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[Mr.Smile12]

Who told you your app is boring or cookie cutter? It's not, but you need to express how important all of those significant experiences are to your development as a physician.

 

[Goro]

Chances excellent!!!! Aim high.

 

[MybeMudPhud]

@Mr.Smile12 No one really told me explicitly that my application is boring/cookie-cutter, more of a conclusion I've reached after reading way too many WAMC threads. I guess my mind is self-selecting too much for people who were varsity athletes and such. I feel like my angle is my teaching/educational-outreach stuff, but so many people have teaching/tutoring in their app already. Like you said, probably more so how I reflect and express it at the end of the day.

@Goro Thanks! Care to hit me with one of those school lists you're so famous for?

 

[Goro]

I suggest:

NYU
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
U Chicago
U Penn
Northwestern
Columbia
Harvard
Stanford
Mayo
Cornell
Sinai
BU
U VA
Duke
Case
ALL UCs (only for CA residents), UCR (IF you’re from the Inland Empire)
Albert Einstein
Hofstra
Ohio State
Pitt
U Cincy
USF Morsani
Baylor
Dartmouth
Rochester
USC/Keck
Western MI
Emory
Jefferson
Miami
SLU
Tufts
U IA
U VM
SUNY.SB

 

[HuckleberryEven]

Applying MD only next cycle (ignore the username from years ago lol). Curious what people think. Worried that my app is a little boring/cookie-cutter.

State/Country of Residence: CA
Ties to other States/Regions: Grew up in NY
URM? (Y/N): N
Year in School: Graduated T10 in May 2021, currently doing TFA
Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Bio
Graduate Degrees (if applicable): Masters in Education technically being pursued?
Cumulative GPA: 3.98
Science GPA: 3.97
MCAT Score(s): 526 (132,131,131,132)
Research Experience: Three years one lab, 1.5 year another lab
Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): Two publications (second author and middle author, good journals), 5 poster presentations (school, regional, and national)
Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): 350 hospice, 150 free clinic by app time
Physician Shadowing: 30 PCP, 20 cardio
Non-Clinical Volunteering: President of educational outreach club and founded summer program for underprivileged youth, president of Habitat for humanity, mentored refugee children
Other Extracurricular Activities: Wrote/edited for undergraduate science journal for two years, basketball/art hobbies
Other Employment History: Current TFA corps member
Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): NO

Mate that's quite the opposite of boring and cookie-cutter! You have really good research experience, and amazing non clinical volunteering. You're clinical volunteering might be a tad bit little on the lower side (I'm assuming you took a gap year?) for some service-heavy schools like Rush (you have higher stats than them anyways lol) but other than that you're golden.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I would also check with the TFA partnership schools. You will be an alumnus but those schools should be on your list.