Hi all,
I'm a reapplicant this upcoming cycle and would love some advice on my school list. Thank you so much in advance! I applied this past cycle (2019-2020), and only received one interview that turned into a waitlist.
Background info:
Here's some of my general stats, as well as my school list
Undergrad: Top Liberal Arts
cGPA, sGPA: 3.75, 3.72
MCAT: 517
On this cycle's primary app:
Clinical Volunteering: Service Trip (~60 hours)
Non-Clinical Volunteering: Community Leader/Mentor (~1000 hours)
Leadership: Leadership program (~20 hrs)
Shadowing: 3 different Physicians (~200 hrs)
Research: Basic Science Lab (~2000 hrs - summer/gap year job), Undergraduate Basic Science Lab (~800 hrs), Summer Basic Science Lab (~200), Clinical Lab (~200 hrs)
- two abstracts, no papers
Other: Varsity Athlete
Gap Year: Continued Basic Lab job, picked up some volunteering
What I have improved:
Clinical Volunteering: ER volunteer (~100 hrs by submission), Hospice Volunteer (~50 hrs by submission)
Non-Clinical Volunteering: Homeless Shelter (~150 hrs), Sports Mentor (~250 hrs by submission), Text Hotline (25 hrs by submission)
Research: part-time public health-related research (first author, paper submitted)
School List for the last cycle:
GW, Yale, Michigan, Wake, Kaiser, Tufts, Columbia, USC, Georgetown, Cornell, Emory, Riverside, Mount Sinai, Dartmouth, UMass, Duke, Case Western, Stanford, Oregon, Irvine, UCSD, Brown, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UCSF, Davis, UCLA, Washington, Pitt, BU
Tentative School List for this cycle:
Not a Reapplicant - Einstien, Cinncinati, Drexel, Harvard, Jefferson, JHU, Loma Linda, Mayo, NYMC, NYU, NYU Lagone, Penn, Rush, Rutgers, SUNY, Temple, Tulane, Uchicago, UConn, VCU, WashU
Reapplicant - Brown, BU, Case, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, GW, Sinai, Irvine, Keck, Michigan, Northwestern, Pitt, Tufts, UCLA, UCSF, UCSD, Vanderbilt, Wake
I'm a reapplicant this upcoming cycle and would love some advice on my school list. Thank you so much in advance! I applied this past cycle (2019-2020), and only received one interview that turned into a waitlist.
Background info:
Here's some of my general stats, as well as my school list
Undergrad: Top Liberal Arts
cGPA, sGPA: 3.75, 3.72
MCAT: 517
On this cycle's primary app:
Clinical Volunteering: Service Trip (~60 hours)
Non-Clinical Volunteering: Community Leader/Mentor (~1000 hours)
Leadership: Leadership program (~20 hrs)
Shadowing: 3 different Physicians (~200 hrs)
Research: Basic Science Lab (~2000 hrs - summer/gap year job), Undergraduate Basic Science Lab (~800 hrs), Summer Basic Science Lab (~200), Clinical Lab (~200 hrs)
- two abstracts, no papers
Other: Varsity Athlete
Gap Year: Continued Basic Lab job, picked up some volunteering
What I have improved:
Clinical Volunteering: ER volunteer (~100 hrs by submission), Hospice Volunteer (~50 hrs by submission)
Non-Clinical Volunteering: Homeless Shelter (~150 hrs), Sports Mentor (~250 hrs by submission), Text Hotline (25 hrs by submission)
Research: part-time public health-related research (first author, paper submitted)
School List for the last cycle:
GW, Yale, Michigan, Wake, Kaiser, Tufts, Columbia, USC, Georgetown, Cornell, Emory, Riverside, Mount Sinai, Dartmouth, UMass, Duke, Case Western, Stanford, Oregon, Irvine, UCSD, Brown, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UCSF, Davis, UCLA, Washington, Pitt, BU
Tentative School List for this cycle:
Not a Reapplicant - Einstien, Cinncinati, Drexel, Harvard, Jefferson, JHU, Loma Linda, Mayo, NYMC, NYU, NYU Lagone, Penn, Rush, Rutgers, SUNY, Temple, Tulane, Uchicago, UConn, VCU, WashU
Reapplicant - Brown, BU, Case, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, GW, Sinai, Irvine, Keck, Michigan, Northwestern, Pitt, Tufts, UCLA, UCSF, UCSD, Vanderbilt, Wake
