Reapplicant WAMC

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cGPA = 3.85
sGPA = 3.72
MCAT = 514 (127, 129, 127, 131)
Ohio Resident, white dude
BS in Computer Science

Clinical experience:

~160 hours at free clinic, triaging patients, cleaning rooms, helping set up for clinic, taking soap notes.

~150 hours hospice

~50 hours hospital volunteering, getting patients food/water, cleaning rooms, helping nursing staff and restocking gloves

Shadowing: ~180 hours ortho + plastics

Research experience: 1 year, 200 hours in immunology lab, multiple presentations in my lab

Non-clinical volunteering: ~250-300 hours virtual tutoring underserved K-12 kids, also made walkthrough videos for high school chemistry

Other experiences:

Casually learning piano, ~150 hours

Casual gymnastics club in undergrad, 200 hours ish

Working full time as a software dev since September, 1000+ hours

Major change from last cycle is the all of the clinical experience (except the hospital stuff) and another 100 or so hours of the volunteer tutoring

My school list so far:
MD -
Ohio State
Wright State
Toledo
Cincinnati
Wake Forest
Dartmouth
Tufts
Penn State
Temple
Jefferson
NYMC
Geisinger
NEOMED
Oakland
UMN

 

[voxveritatisetlucis]

I know it sometimes sounds like a broken record, but reapplicants need significantly more volume. Barring any red flags, you should get in somewhere.

I’d add

St. Louis
Tufts
Creighton
Wayne state
Hofstra
Drexel
Quinnipiac
Albany
VCU
EVMS
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Loyola
Einstein
UVM
TCU
MCW

Plus more I just am having a brain freeze on mid to low tier private and OOS publics. I’ll add if I think of more

 

[send_help]

I know it sometimes sounds like a broken record, but reapplicants need significantly more volume. Barring any red flags, you should get in somewhere.

I’d add

St. Louis
Tufts
Creighton
Wayne state
Hofstra
Drexel
Quinnipiac
Albany
VCU
EVMS
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Loyola
Einstein
UVM
TCU
MCW

Plus more I just am having a brain freeze on mid to low tier private and OOS publics. I’ll add if I think of more

Thanks for the reply. Will it be an issue if the majority of my clinical hours were accumulated since October? I applied with 50 last time (also applied late) so I started volunteering again as soon as I finished my apps

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Any community service at all? I see you have virtual tutoring which is overrepresented on premed applications and thus isn't going to be worth much on the service side. Nothing stands out in terms of significant opportunities to stretch beyond your comfort zone with service from what has been disclosed.

I'm afraid you may wind up reapplying AGAIN. Did you get any interviews?

 

[chilly_md]

Chances would be best at your IS schools. As a career changer, your personal statement is especially important to explain why you want to pursue medicine and want to leave the CS field so soon. The very recent clinical hours does not help explain how you were driven to become a physician.

 

[stinkycheeseperson]

You'd been better off with another year. If the above was your first app you might be fine but as a reapp it's not great

 

[send_help]

Any community service at all? I see you have virtual tutoring which is overrepresented on premed applications and thus isn't going to be worth much on the service side. Nothing stands out in terms of significant opportunities to stretch beyond your comfort zone with service from what has been disclosed.

I'm afraid you may wind up reapplying AGAIN. Did you get any interviews?

I know the virtual tutoring is a little borderline, I made a thread on it earlier and LizzyM and one or two other adcoms seemed to think it was fine as far as community service goes. No interviews this go around

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I know the virtual tutoring is a little borderline, I made a thread on it earlier and LizzyM and one or two other adcoms seemed to think it was fine as far as community service goes. No interviews this go around

I know. I was the one adcom who dissented.

 

[candbgirl]

I know the virtual tutoring is a little borderline, I made a thread on it earlier and LizzyM and one or two other adcoms seemed to think it was fine as far as community service goes. No interviews this go around

It’s kind of a double whammy- it’s tutoring which really isn’t stretching yourself out of your comfort zone and learning to deal with people very different from yourself and it’s virtual. And tutoring is listed seperately(it used to be) .
Are you continuing your clinical experiences? If not why not?
You have way too much shadowing but you don’t have any with a primary care doc. It would benefit you to find a primary care doc and shadow that person for a day or two. It will give you a totally different view of medicine than what you saw shadowing ortho and plastics.
As @stinkycheeseperson said, waiting another year before you apply can only help you solidify your application.

 

[GoSpursGo]

I know the virtual tutoring is a little borderline, I made a thread on it earlier and LizzyM and one or two other adcoms seemed to think it was fine as far as community service goes. No interviews this go around

I tend to agree with @Mr.Smile12 , virtual tutoring really is verrrrrry borderline. It's just not out of your comfort zone at all.

That said, I think your main problem last year was probably a lack of clinical experience which you have addressed. I do think you *could* get in. But I would try and rack up as many volunteer hours as possible between now and application, and as soon as you hit submit make sure you keep up with the volunteering because getting in with your current application is not guaranteed.