MD Need Help with Schools List Please!

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McDr

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Demographics: 21, M, white IL resident

GPA: cGPA 3.77, sGPA 3.66


MCAT: 517 (129/128/130/130)

Non-Clinical Volunteering
~200 hours: taught a peer-based health curriculum to disadvantaged Chicago Public School system high school students.
~500 hours: Local fraternity (1 yr member -> 1 yr vice president -> 1 yr president); established numerous service events on the local campus and volunteered at Greater Food Depository, Chicago Marathon, Hot Chocolate Run, and Shamrock Shuffle, Relay for Life, Dance Marathon, and Boys and Girls Club of America.
~30 hours: Recorded an audiobook of The Shadow Club for individuals with visual and mental disabilities.
~75 Hours: Volunteer at Church, and various outside mission, especially Habitat for Humanity.

Clinical Experience
~200 hours volunteering at a university hospital. (Radiology, Catheterization Lab, Gastrointestinal Lab, Greeting Station, and Pediatrics)

Work Experience:
~ 500 Hours as a Sleep Coach (contacted patients on a regular basis and ensure their medical supplies were up to our hygiene and safety requirements. In addition, my position also included scheduling inspections, relaying information on how to use the equipment, and coordinating contact with sleep doctors, respiratory therapists, and sleep laboratory clinicians)


Research
~1,200 hours of research. Highest Honors through Honors College, multiple grants
  • 2 poster presentations (1st author) on self-collected data will be in near future (one at College of Medicine fair, one at an international conference). By the time I matriculate, I expect hours to be somewhere near 2,200.
  • 1 publication in student journal of scientific data (1st author)

Leadership:
-President and Vice President of Local Fraternity.
-Member of Dean's Student Advisory Board
-Senior Health Educator in Peer Health group.

Shadowing
~100 hours pediatric neurology shadowing
~10 hours Transplant Surgery shadowing
~10 hours Internal Medicine
~25 hours Emergency Med

Honors/Awards
:
-Dean's List for 5 semesters
-Graduated with Highest Distinction in Neuroscience degree
-Chancellor's Service Award
-Multiple Honor's College Research Grants


Special Considerations:
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above average LoRs
-average PS

Schools (UPDATED):
State Schools:
-Univerity of Illinois
-Carle School of Med
-Loyola
-Rush
-Rosalind Franklin
-Northwestern
-UChicago


Reach Schools:
-Harvard
-Hopkins
-Stanford
-U Penn
-Pitt
-UCLA
-Vanderbilt
-Columbia
-Emory
-Keck
-Mt. Sinai
-Rochester
-OSU
-Dartmouth
-Case Western
-Einstein
-USF
-Miami
-University of Washington
-Wake Forest
-SLU
-Mayo Clinic (dream school)

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Update:

1.Northwestern
2.UChicago
3.Duke
4.Columbia
5.Baylor
6. Stanford
7. Harvard
8. Cornell
9. Case Western
10. Mayo
11. UCSF
12. Michigan
13. UCLA
14. Pitt
15. UCSD
16. Einstein
17. USC-Keck
18. Ohio State
19. Emory
20. SLU
21. Iowa
22. Rochester
23.University of Hawii-MB
25. UNC
26. UIC
27. Rush
28. Loyola
 
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