Freaking out! Please chance me.

[trustee]

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senior in a state school in New York. major in bio, with concentration in genetics.
cGPA: 3.69
sGPA: 3.60. (Got two C+s in orgo II and BIO II, Bs in orgo I and bio lab II) all other classes i got A/ A-
MCAT: 31 (V:9, B:11, P:11)

Extracurricular:
-TA for gen chem for 1 year, bio I for one semester.
-Paid tutor for gen chem for two years.

non-clinical volunteering:
-two years. ~400 hours, all hands on (helping out in food pantry, homeless meal services, teaching english, revitalizing parks and gardens.. etc)
-one year team leader. managed groups of 5 to 25 volunteers. same organization as above.
-one year domestic violence hotline volunteer. 100+ hours
-1 summer ED volunteer. ~40 hours.
-1 year ED volunteer. ~100 hours.
-30 hours of shadowing.

NO RESEARCH.

five LORs (two from professors I TA-ed for, 1 from developmental bio prof, 1 from biopsy prof, 1 from hotline supervisor)

please help me out here. I have good non-clinical hours. HOWEVER, will little hospital volunteering hours, lack of research, and two C+s in premed classes kill my chance? should I apply this cycle? or should I stay for another year to get 1 year of research and more hours of hospital volunteering? retake MCAT?

my goal is to stay in nyc. that means NYU, Mount Sinai, SUNY Downstate, Albert Einstein, and New York Medical College would be my top choice.

Anyway feedback would be nice. please help me out. i am freaking out now!!

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Don't bother applying this cycle. With insufficient clinical volunteering you'll be screwed. No research isn't going to help you at all. Finally you are late in this cycle.

So you should this year work on increasing clinical volunteering and then doing some research.

 

[Catalystik]

Your stats are right at the medians for those accepted to med school.

I think your clinical experience is probably fine considering you have 100 + 40 ER volunteer hours and could maybe spin the hotline experience as somewhat clinically related. I think your shadowing could be beefed up more to 50 hours at the minimum, but ideally 60-80 hours total, to include a primary care doc. Your nonmedical community service/leadership is excellent. You even have teaching.

Research is your major lack, and more than half the schools on your list I would think of as liking to see research and even as research-intense. So I'd suggest getting two semesters in before you apply in June 2011.

Applying this late in the cycle, considering it would take a month or more to get your transcripts verified and more time to get your Secondaries complete, would put you at a marked disadvantage statistically for getting an acceptance. Yes, you might get an acceptance if you apply now, but it would likely be a school below your stats range, and you might spend months in the limbo of the waitlist.

I suggest research (at least try it), more shadowing, and continued clinical experience. And include Hofstra on your application list.

 

[H06]

I agree with the previous posters. What about the SUNY's?

 

[mikethomp]

Don't bother applying this cycle. With insufficient clinical volunteering you'll be screwed. No research isn't going to help you at all. Finally you are late in this cycle.

So you should this year work on increasing clinical volunteering and then doing some research.

Man your like the pinnacle of the people that should not be giving advice on here... I saw your ridiculously idiotic posts elsewhere. You seem to know nothing about the application cycle.