Medical How do my extracurriculars look?

[Goro]

Hello! I'm planning on applying during the 2022-2023 application cycle and was hoping to get feedback on my activities before then. I'm currently most worried about the hours/strength of my clinical experience and nonclinical volunteering, although I believe I can speak and write strongly about both. Thank you so much in advance!

(All hours represented below are completed/do not include projected hours)
cGPA: 3.92
sGPA: 3.90
aoGPA: 4.0
(Will be taking MCAT in January 2022, will post formal WAMC then)
Undergraduate major: Data science
Year in school: First-semester junior, graduating in May 2023
Shadowing experience and specialties represented:

• Primary care -- 20 hours over 1 month
• Hematology-oncology -- 80 hours over 1 month
• Total: 100 hours

Clinical experience, volunteer or paid:

• Patient transport volunteer -- 96 hours over 3 months
• Free clinic volunteer -- 216 hours over 1 year (mix of in-person interaction with patients and remote phone calls)
• Total: 312 hours

Non-clinical volunteering:

• Soup kitchen volunteer -- 144 over 1 year
• Total: 144 hours

Research experience and productivity:

• Behavioral neuroscience lab since high school -- 2,080 hours over 6.5 years (part-time over the summer and during breaks)
  • 2 first-author publications
  • 2 poster presentations
• Independent public health research project -- 288 hours over 1.5 years
  • Plenary talk presentation at national statistics conference
• Total: 2,368 hours

Leadership:

• Residential hall president -- 1,260 hours over 1.5 years
• Total: 1,260 hours

Other extracurriculars:

• Data science club secretary -- 270 hours over 2.5 years
• Residential hall treasurer -- 72 hours over 1 year
• Total: 342 hours

Non-clinical employment:

• Dining hall worker -- 192 hours over 1 year
• Total: 192 hours

Relevant honors or awards:

• 1st place in national statistics competition
• Merit scholarship

Hobbies:

• Ping-pong
• Hiking

Your clinical experience is great.

Nonclinical volunteering should be increased. You should have a minimum of 150 hrs of that. 200 would be super.

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[Mr.Smile12]

Why is being a residential hall president leadership but being a treasurer is not? To an extent you have more leadership hours than you claim (move your "other extracurriculars" into leadership).

The only question is how your one Soup Kitchen experience is going to show me you have stretched beyond your comfort zone to know about others' struggles. That's not an answer you can give me hours about, but will be something you have to reflect upon.

 

[GoSpursGo]

Honestly you are fine. You could have more nonclinical volunteering as @Goro said but realistically speaking your top priority needs to be getting the high MCAT that the rest of your application deserves. Don’t lose your eye on the prize by overextending yourself

 

[PerioDont]

Honestly you are fine. You could have more nonclinical volunteering as @Goro said but realistically speaking your top priority needs to be getting the high MCAT that the rest of your application deserves. Don’t lose your eye on the prize by overextending yourself

I agree with this. Focus on your MCAT, you've got enough hours already

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Focus on MCAT! maybe add more clincal hours.