Hi everyone. I am a 2020 grad who is currently on 4 MD WL (CWRU, BU, and 2 of my state schools). At this point I am coming to terms with the fact that I will probably have to reapply so I need some advice.
My c/sGPA was 3.95 and MCAT 521.
All that I have added during my gap year is 2000 clinical hours supervising a COVID testing center (more if I add projected hours) and I took a spanish class P/F because I am working for a university and it was free lol.
My activities that were included on last years app:
Clinical: 400 hours
-100 hours shadowing primary care
-250 hours in a clinical research lab in New Zealand (no pub) (I counted this as clinical because my job was to draw blood, take vitals, etc and I needed more clinical hours)
-50 hours volunteering in an endoscopy clinic at a local hospital
Research: 650 hours
-600 hours in a neurobiology lab (no pub)
-50 hours at the Brigham on a clinical trial where I mostly screened data (no pub)
Non-clinical work: 1275 hours
-275 hours as a barista
-1000 hours as a marketing research intern at my family's marketing company early in college (I talk about how my family wanted me to go into business but working here showed me that my passions lie in medicine)
Non-clinical volunteering: 50
- 50 hours mentoring a first gen high schooler through college application process
Other:
-study abroad
-social sorority (no leadership)
Hobby:
-running (half marathon completed and training for a marathon that got cancelled due to COVID)
-(not listed on previous app) I was thinking about adding reading because during COVID I have read like 60 books but it's kind of a boring hobby to add so idk
My school list last year was: einstein, BU, CWRU, columbia, drexel, emory, GW, georgetown, indiana, temple, loyola, NYU, rush, brown, tufts, umass, miami, umich, wisconsin, virginia tech and my state schools (OSU, toledo and cincinnati).
Help I need:
1. I felt like my school list was pretty balanced last year, does anyone have any schools they can suggest?
2. Are there any glaring problems you see with this application? Any suggestions for improvement?
3. I was in a lab class during undergrad where we helped the professor with his research. It is now getting published and he lists the class as the third author, but my name is not listed until the footnotes. Is this even worth putting in my application?
4. How much should I change my application? Because I got interviews at decent schools so I feel like there aren't major problems with it, but then again I didn't get accepted to any of the schools so idk lol
5. I would also love some reapplicant friends to trade essays and such with, so if you're interested, hmu
My c/sGPA was 3.95 and MCAT 521.
All that I have added during my gap year is 2000 clinical hours supervising a COVID testing center (more if I add projected hours) and I took a spanish class P/F because I am working for a university and it was free lol.
My activities that were included on last years app:
Clinical: 400 hours
-100 hours shadowing primary care
-250 hours in a clinical research lab in New Zealand (no pub) (I counted this as clinical because my job was to draw blood, take vitals, etc and I needed more clinical hours)
-50 hours volunteering in an endoscopy clinic at a local hospital
Research: 650 hours
-600 hours in a neurobiology lab (no pub)
-50 hours at the Brigham on a clinical trial where I mostly screened data (no pub)
Non-clinical work: 1275 hours
-275 hours as a barista
-1000 hours as a marketing research intern at my family's marketing company early in college (I talk about how my family wanted me to go into business but working here showed me that my passions lie in medicine)
Non-clinical volunteering: 50
- 50 hours mentoring a first gen high schooler through college application process
Other:
-study abroad
-social sorority (no leadership)
Hobby:
-running (half marathon completed and training for a marathon that got cancelled due to COVID)
-(not listed on previous app) I was thinking about adding reading because during COVID I have read like 60 books but it's kind of a boring hobby to add so idk
My school list last year was: einstein, BU, CWRU, columbia, drexel, emory, GW, georgetown, indiana, temple, loyola, NYU, rush, brown, tufts, umass, miami, umich, wisconsin, virginia tech and my state schools (OSU, toledo and cincinnati).
Help I need:
1. I felt like my school list was pretty balanced last year, does anyone have any schools they can suggest?
2. Are there any glaring problems you see with this application? Any suggestions for improvement?
3. I was in a lab class during undergrad where we helped the professor with his research. It is now getting published and he lists the class as the third author, but my name is not listed until the footnotes. Is this even worth putting in my application?
4. How much should I change my application? Because I got interviews at decent schools so I feel like there aren't major problems with it, but then again I didn't get accepted to any of the schools so idk lol
5. I would also love some reapplicant friends to trade essays and such with, so if you're interested, hmu
