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Hi, I am one year out from my application and am wondering what my chances are and what I should do to improve my application. I was born and raised in South America so I am hispanic and speak Spanish and moved here when I was ten. My cGPA is a 3.5 (3.3, 3.4, 3.2, 3.9 year by year) and I will be doing one more year of courses to show another year of strong GPA work before I apply. Assuming I make 3.9~4.0 (my senior year I fixed some learning issues I had been having so this is very feasible), I can push both my cGPA and sGPA up to about a 3.6. I have about 150 hours of clinical volunteering in a hospital, worked summers as a camp counselor for underprivileged youth, shadowed a surgeon about 70 hours and started a club at my school focused on providing supplies to the homeless. I also spent about 2500 hours in a research lab with multiple posters presented and a talk given at various conferences and won an award for my research.
I am wondering, if I get involved in volunteering a significant amount over the next year (say 200 hours or so in something I am passionate about), make the grades (3.9~4.0) and score well on the MCAT (512+), how do I look as an applicant? Am I competitive for top schools ( say US News top 25? or so), what about schools more in the middle (top 60)? I know ranking "does not matter" but I am trying to gauge my competitiveness at this point and if I accomplish my goals for the year.
I am wondering, if I get involved in volunteering a significant amount over the next year (say 200 hours or so in something I am passionate about), make the grades (3.9~4.0) and score well on the MCAT (512+), how do I look as an applicant? Am I competitive for top schools ( say US News top 25? or so), what about schools more in the middle (top 60)? I know ranking "does not matter" but I am trying to gauge my competitiveness at this point and if I accomplish my goals for the year.