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[Maxwell879]

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[Maxwell879]

@Faha @Mr.Smile12 @Goro would really really appreciate your thoughts

 

[Faha]

What are your cGPA and sGPA including your post bacc courses ?

 

[Maxwell879]

What are your cGPA and sGPA including your post bacc courses ?

Ah I was mistaken but confirmed with my application. my total gpas (undergrad + post-bacc) would be a cGPA: 3.58 and sGPA: 3.67. Are those the numbers I should more so look at when looking at GPA metrics for schools?

edited initial post with correction

 

[Goro]

Creighton
Netter
Albany
EVMS
KYCOM
DMU
UIW

More realistic list above

 

[Faha]

You have a good DO list. In your MD list Carle Illinois is looking for applicants with an engineering background. You also have several state public schools that admit very few non residents with your stats and no connection to the state. I suggest these MD schools:
U Florida
Florida State
USF Morsani
Miami
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Central Florida
NOVA MD
Tulane
TCU
Creighton
Loyola
Rush
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac

 

[Maxwell879]

Creighton
Netter
Albany
EVMS
VCU

KYCOM
DMU
UIW


More realistic list above

Appreciate you taking the time! Thank you so much.

 

[Maxwell879]

You have a good DO list. In your MD list Carle Illinois is looking for applicants with an engineering background. You also have several state public schools that admit very few non residents with your stats and no connection to the state. I suggest these MD schools:
U Florida
Florida State
USF Morsani
Miami
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Central Florida
NOVA MD
Tulane
TCU
Creighton
Loyola
Rush
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac

Thank you so much for taking the time to help! Your insight is greatly appreciated.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

1) Get more in-person shadowing. The virtual shadowing is nice, but it's like a lecture series as it's described. Good information, but you're not smelling the patients or the Clorox. 🙂 Get to at least 50 hours total to be safe, so I suggest 30 hours in a primary care area if you can. I don't know how your CRA work helps with this suggestion.



Ideally you need to get to 150 hours to avoid your application getting screened out by most medical schools for insufficient demonstration of service orientation (alleviating others' distress). Your crisis counseling helps, but you also have to show service orientation is not completely dependent on teaching or healthcare opportunities. Furthermore, you need to show your service orientation is independent of being part of a school organization as an expectation of your time as a student (ideally). Were you part of a campus group as a service group leader?

 

[Maxwell879]

I appreciate

1) Get more in-person shadowing. The virtual shadowing is nice, but it's like a lecture series as it's described. Good information, but you're not smelling the patients or the Clorox. 🙂 Get to at least 50 hours total to be safe, so I suggest 30 hours in a primary care area if you can. I don't know how your CRA work helps with this suggestion.

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Ideally you need to get to 150 hours to avoid your application getting screened out by most medical schools for insufficient demonstration of service orientation (alleviating others' distress). Your crisis counseling helps, but you also have to show service orientation is not completely dependent on teaching or healthcare opportunities. Furthermore, you need to show your service orientation is independent of being part of a school organization as an expectation of your time as a student (ideally). Were you part of a campus group as a service group leader?

I appreciate you taking the time and for your feedback.

1. I definitely plan to get more shadowing and already have some scheduled for over the summer. I will try to get as much as I can to be safe.
2. I appreciate this suggestion a lot because a lot of my volunteering was through a campus group, so I will set up times for myself to find volunteer opportunities independent of school.

Thanks again for your help 🙂