Hello all. This is an updated version of my WAMC that I posted about a week ago because I recently was offered summer funding(beginning May 28th) to continue my research which will drastically increase the amount of research I’ll be able to report/project with confidence. If a second post is against forum rules, my apologies.
Current School List
I’d like to apply to approximately 15 schools, please help me eliminate a few of these schools and/or make substitutions. I’d prefer to apply to programs with an MD/MPH program and programs that are in urban areas. I would also like to avoid medical schools with religious affiliation.
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS: 3.94, 3.97 respectively
- MCAT 519 (130, 130, 131, 128)
- WI resident
- Race: White
- Small(not main campus) state school
- Clinical Experience: Hospital Volunteer (~150 hours/ 3 years, making sure patients receiving infusions are comfortable with snacks, drinks, blankets, conversation, games and so on)
- Research experience and productivity: Started this semester, have my own project, it’s more of a literature review and data analysis project than a wet lab, if that matters I have received a SURP award funding my work on this project for the summer (~100 hours upon application/1 semester+400 hours projected/summer, 500 hours total)
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: ~50 hours primarily family practice but includes some hours in emergency medicine, OB/GYN, internal medicine and anesthesiology
- Non-clinical volunteering: ~400 hours/3 years as a crisis counselor with Crisis Text Line, an international, nonprofit mental health hotline.
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc) - TA for General Biology Lecture Courses (~270 hours/3 semesters), TA for chemistry laboratory (~150 hours/1 semester), studied abroad in Western Europe
- Relevant honors or awards: General Chemistry Award for excellence in the courses( given to 5 out of ~100 students), full tuition+fees+books scholarship(awarded based on high school achievement so I’m not sure if it should be included)
- Anything else not listed you think might be important: N/A
Current School List
I’d like to apply to approximately 15 schools, please help me eliminate a few of these schools and/or make substitutions. I’d prefer to apply to programs with an MD/MPH program and programs that are in urban areas. I would also like to avoid medical schools with religious affiliation.
- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
- University of Minnesota Medical School( I know it’s out of state but I have strong ties, my father lives in Minnesota, I am doing my undergrad in Minnesota, I grew up/my mom lives on a border town, and I’d like to practice in the Twin Cities area.)
- New York University School of Medicine
- Boston University School of Medicine
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Weill Cornell Medicine
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
- Drexel University College of Medicine
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
- Yale School of Medicine
- Albany Medical College
- Harvard Medical School
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
- Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
- Tufts University School of Medicine
- University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
