Hi, everyone! I'm about finalized with my school list and have been writing secondaries. But, I want to make sure that my school list looks good, and to see if anyone has any suggestions for a school I should swap out or another reach school that might have higher chances for me.
My stats:
GPA: 3.88
MCAT: 509
Biology/Piano Performance major
Home state is NE, but hoping to get in somewhere out of state
Clinicals:
-60 hours with an program named SoundHealth, its a healing with music sort of thing
-200ish at a hospital transporting patients- volunteer
Volunteering: apart from the clinicals above,
-70 hours volunteering with underprivileged youth at a music camp called Omaha Girls Rock
-100 hours accompanying young pianists on the drums for their jazz pieces at recitals
Research:
-450 hours- biomedical research lab researching brain cancers (wet lab)
-50 hours- clinical research into therapies for musicians, specifically pianists
Shadowing:
-130 hours in 4 different specialties
Other activities:
-100 hours- With the same Omaha Girls Rock non-profit, got a job going into schools in urban areas and teaching afterschool programs with underprivileged youth- 100 hours
-215 hours- tutoring (paid), but more of an open help room where I tutor a bunch of different people. Not private one-on-one
-150 hours- Judging High School Debate (paid)
-Hobbies I listed were piano, gardening, and cooking
My personal statement talked a lot about my music and medicine related activities (soundhealth and the wrist research). I think my personal statement is strong.
Here is my current school list, from "safety" schools to reaches
Right now I have 30, and I don't want to go any higher. I wouldn't mind taking a few off, but mainly I'm interested in if there are any other reaches that I should apply to, or any of these that I should maybe remove? e.g. I removed Rush from my reach list because I was reading that they really don't admit many people with less than, like, 1000 hours of clinicals. Things that I may not find out from a simple school search, but the people of sdn do!
Thanks in advance!
My stats:
GPA: 3.88
MCAT: 509
Biology/Piano Performance major
Home state is NE, but hoping to get in somewhere out of state
Clinicals:
-60 hours with an program named SoundHealth, its a healing with music sort of thing
-200ish at a hospital transporting patients- volunteer
Volunteering: apart from the clinicals above,
-70 hours volunteering with underprivileged youth at a music camp called Omaha Girls Rock
-100 hours accompanying young pianists on the drums for their jazz pieces at recitals
Research:
-450 hours- biomedical research lab researching brain cancers (wet lab)
-50 hours- clinical research into therapies for musicians, specifically pianists
Shadowing:
-130 hours in 4 different specialties
Other activities:
-100 hours- With the same Omaha Girls Rock non-profit, got a job going into schools in urban areas and teaching afterschool programs with underprivileged youth- 100 hours
-215 hours- tutoring (paid), but more of an open help room where I tutor a bunch of different people. Not private one-on-one
-150 hours- Judging High School Debate (paid)
-Hobbies I listed were piano, gardening, and cooking
My personal statement talked a lot about my music and medicine related activities (soundhealth and the wrist research). I think my personal statement is strong.
Here is my current school list, from "safety" schools to reaches
| University of South Carolina |
| Michigan State |
| University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Medicine |
| Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine |
| TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine |
| University of Toledo |
| Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine |
| Wayne State |
| Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Penn State |
| Loyola |
| Albany Medical College |
| Tulane University |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center |
| Indiana University School of Medicine |
| Oregon Health and Science University |
| Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine |
| Chicago Medical School, Franklin University of Medicine |
| New York Medical College |
| Temple University |
| Drexel University |
| University of Vermont |
| Creighton University |
| University of Illinois |
| University of Wisconsin |
| University of Colorado |
| Wake Forest |
| Georgetown University |
| George Washington University |
| University of Miami |
Right now I have 30, and I don't want to go any higher. I wouldn't mind taking a few off, but mainly I'm interested in if there are any other reaches that I should apply to, or any of these that I should maybe remove? e.g. I removed Rush from my reach list because I was reading that they really don't admit many people with less than, like, 1000 hours of clinicals. Things that I may not find out from a simple school search, but the people of sdn do!
Thanks in advance!
