Help Me Please

[wastog]

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On 2 club executive boards my senior year
Physics tutor my senior year
Member of several clubs, organizations starting junior year
Volunteered about 50 hours at local hospital
Shadowed a radiologist once for 8 hours

Clinical experience during college was quite weak. The clinical research job has given me great clinical experience in a very short time, but should I still go for the traditional "shadowing" experience in the time that I have left? Should I take some courses?

Also heavily considered retaking MCAT given weak CARS and the fact I had 132s in cars on practices, but was told by friends/advisors that might look bad given good overall number (had 522 on final practice test, got 2 hours of sleep, cognitive functioning was subpar) Also aware of the risk of doing worse on retake.

Where do I have a chance, what can I do to improve?

Thank you!!

 

[Faha]

You do not need to retake the MCAT but you do need 50 shadowing hours (including primary care). For schools consider all these:
UMass
Tufts
BU
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
New York Medical College
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
Rochester
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
GW
Georgetown
Dartmouth

 

[CyrusHabs7695]

If you retake the mcat with a 517 im gonna slap you across the head through your computer screen


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[wastog]

Thank you for the list Faha! Are there any other schools across the country I should consider?

 

[centralTX]

I think you should up your shadowing and non-clinical volunteering experiences--both of which will only strengthen your application. Does your clinical research coordinator give you experience in watching physician-patient interactions? Because I think that's helpful and a lot of what shadowing tries to get applicants to do, which is seeing how physicians interact with patients.

 

[wastog]

Thank you! Any other schools perhaps outside of Northeast?

 

[wastog]

bump

 

[wastog]

bump

 

[centralTX]

Purchase the MSAR and compare schools based off of your stats, interests, and also by location. I can't tell you about schools outside of Texas, sorry