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Thank you for the reply!
Are my clinical volunteering hours minimal or clinical hours in total too little?
I scored my WARS and got a 71 when i put a 7 for my stats score (my GPA is a 3.85, but its on the lowest end of that scoring) if i put an 8 it is up to a 76. Secondly, I'm unsure if teaching martial arts would bump my teaching experience up from a 2 to a 3, if not then it would be a little lower.
Do you have any other advice?
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From your description, teaching martial arts to underserved children is volunteering or community service (unless it's employment)… but it's not teaching in a comparable sense to TA/tutor in college.
Okay, then my WARS score is looking more like a 74-80, at that point is it foolish to apply to mid-tier schools? Should I take another year off and work on ECs?
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Where is your state of residence ?
I'm in Arizona
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I suggest these schools:
Arizona (Tucson and Phoenix)
Mayo Arizona
Tulane
TCU-UNT
Creighton
St. Louis
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
NOVA MD
USF Morsani
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Seton Hall
Hofstra
Einstein
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinipiac
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Your ECs are pretty cookie cutter but nothing seems lacking enough to warrant a gap year imo. I had slightly better ECs (more clinical volunteering and a little bit more clinical work), a worse MCAT (510), and pretty much the same GPA and applied to a list of schools that was pretty similar to the list Faha gave above. I received only 1 II from schools outside of my state and 2 from in-state schools that heavily favor in-state students (applied to 28 total).
So, hopefully you'd receive a couple IIs but I don't see any interesting points of your resume that would make tons of schools jump to want to interview you necessarily.
I think you could probably just apply this cycle and I would guess you'd get 1-5 IIs and hopefully an A or two to one of the above listed schools. If you're against reapplying and aren't set on a competitive specialty then it may be worth adding a couple DO schools to the list as well.
So, hopefully you'd receive a couple IIs but I don't see any interesting points of your resume that would make tons of schools jump to want to interview you necessarily.
I think you could probably just apply this cycle and I would guess you'd get 1-5 IIs and hopefully an A or two to one of the above listed schools. If you're against reapplying and aren't set on a competitive specialty then it may be worth adding a couple DO schools to the list as well.
Thank you Faha for taking your time to help me out!
I agree with your points, if things didn't work out this cycle it would make me a stronger applicant for the next. (extra year of scribing, more research maybe publish, and more ECs) Thank you for your feed back!
