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Buy access to the MSAR and strike all but one or two schools where your MCAT is below the 10th percentile. Ditto where your GPA is < 10th percentile.
Frankly, I'd hold off on applying until you have at least 100 hours of volunteer service in a community agency that addresses homelessness, food insecurity, refugee/migrant status, or similar hardships of the lowest social stratum. It doesn't appear that you have ever had non-clinical engagement with adults who have not attended college and yet they make up a significant proportion (>40/%) of American adults.
Okay, then. the food kitchen might be too little to late if you're going to show February through May and the rest of the hours in the future. Looks like box checking.
Honestly, if it feels like box-checking, you have not reached competency with service orientation to be successful in medical school.I should’ve mentioned that ~70 of the 500 hours at the VA includes working in the canteen, helping disabled veterans shop for necessities. Honestly, a lot of this process feels like box checking.
Honestly, if it feels like box-checking, you have not reached competency with service orientation to be successful in medical school.
You could include the 70 hours helping disable veterans as non clinical volunteering. You still need 80+ hours in the local food kitchen before you submit your application since many school screen at 150 hours. You should also accumulate 50 hours of in person physicain shadowing. You have many state public schools on your list that admit few non residents with no connection to the state. I suggest these schools with your stats:
Your 3 NJ state public schools
Hackensack
Hofstra
NYMC
Albany
Rochester
Vermont
Quinnipiac
UMass
Tufts
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Pittsburgh
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
USF Morsani
Miami
Belmont
Alice Walton
TCU
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Colorado
U Iowa
U Illinois
Roseman