School List advice

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[chilly_md]

Having a lot of your non-clinical volunteering as an event coordinator for your school is not really helping those who are less fortunate. This will hinder you at service-oriented schools (eg Loyola).

Apply to:

1. UCONN (in state)
2. Quinnipiac
3. UVM
4. NYMC
5. Albany
6. Drexel
7. PSU
8. George Washington
9. Georgetown
10. Wake Forest
11. Hackensack
12. Temple

DO:

1. UNECOM (New England bias)
2. LECOM(s)
3. NYITCOM
4. TOURO-NY
5. PCOM-PA
6. DMU
7. VCOM-VA
8. ATSU-KCOM
9. CCOM (high tuition)
10. KCU-COM
11. Marian

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I agree... please provide more detail on community service event coordinator for my university, 200ish hrs across a few years. Is this just an obfuscating way of saying you helped fundraising for something like Relay for Life or dance marathons for hospitals?

Being in contact tracing or vaccination education is good but do you have anything else that gives you a chance to be immersed in a community in need in a non-medical way? Shelters for homeless or endangered women/children/teenagers? Food distribution or pantries?

 

[deleted1065682]

I agree... please provide more detail on community service event coordinator for my university, 200ish hrs across a few years. Is this just an obfuscating way of saying you helped fundraising for something like Relay for Life or dance marathons for hospitals?

Being in contact tracing or vaccination education is good but do you have anything else that gives you a chance to be immersed in a community in need in a non-medical way? Shelters for homeless or endangered women/children/teenagers? Food distribution or pantries?

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[deleted1065682]

@Goro not sure if you'll get a chance to see this, but any recommendations based upon my information?

 

[Goro]

Didn't do much of any fundraising. I primarily was responsible for organizing events/initiatives in my university's surrounding community that met its peoples' needs. For instance, I collaborated with a local women's shelter to set up sexual assault crisis aide training during the pandemic, gathering toiletries and other items for survivors during their inpatient stay. Did all of the groundwork to make it happen, held debriefing sessions with student volunteers after each lesson, etc, my participation capacity in other initiatives looked similar to this. This ended up establishing a continuous working relationship between this shelter and the university that has continued after I graduated. This position also involved some mentorship, particularly with first gen students like myself, which in itself was fairly impactful to me.

Get off campus and out of your comfort zone. You need to show service to people who aren't like you, and who are less fortunate than you.

 

[deleted1065682]

Get off campus and out of your comfort zone. You need to show service to people who aren't like you, and who are less fortunate than you.

Thank you for the feedback. I graduated May 2021 and am in a gap year. Would showing service to "people not like me" need to be done through volunteer work? In my medical assistant position, I do work in a Medicaid-friendly clinic (though not an entirely free clinic). Many of the individuals serviced are those from low SES, diverse racial/cultural backgrounds, with varying needs who are not like me.

 

[Goro]

@Goro not sure if you'll get a chance to see this, but any recommendations based upon my information?

I suggest:
U CONN
Drexel (maybe)
U VM (maybe)
Gtown (maybe)
TCU/UNT
Miami
NYMC
Albany
Temple
Tulane
Wayne State
Netter
SLU
VCU
EVMS
Hackensack Meridian
Rosy Franklin
Loma Linda (only if you are SDA or a very devout Christian)
Loyola
MCW
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)

Any DO program. I can't recommend LMU, ARCOM, RVU, BCOM, ICOM and LUCOM, for different reasons. Avoid those new schools that haven't graduated a class yet, if at all possible. NOTE: Nova is no longer on the Bad Boy list. They seem to have cleaned up thier act.

 

[Goro]

Thank you for the feedback. I graduated May 2021 and am in a gap year. Would showing service to "people not like me" need to be done through volunteer work? In my medical assistant position, I do work in a Medicaid-friendly clinic (though not an entirely free clinic). Many of the individuals serviced are those from low SES, diverse racial/cultural backgrounds, with varying needs who are not like me.

Yes, precisely.

 

[chilly_md]

USUHS will screen out applicant

No, they won’t

 

[ujsc]

I should know as I am very familiar with their process. Well see who is right.

 

[deleted1065682]

I should know as I am very familiar with their process. Well see who is right.

Screened in what regard? Based on their website, it looks like they screen at 496 mcat and 3.0 gpa, curious to learn anything about how they process apps

 

[ujsc]

Screened in what regard? Based on their website, it looks like they screen at 496 mcat and 3.0 gpa, curious to learn anything about how they process apps

Acceptance current cycle is 510 average. There is big difference between screened and accepted. Nontheless, it is not worth debating.

 

[deleted1065682]

Acceptance current cycle is 510 average. There is big difference between screened and accepted. Nontheless, it is not worth debating.

Agreed. But you said “screen out”, I thought you were referring to pre-II screening. That was all.

 

[ujsc]

Agreed. But you said “screen out”, I thought you were referring to pre-II screening. That was all.

It isn't worth debating but note USUHS looks for demonstrated leaders who will serve our country as military officers as well. Criteria include passing stringent physical and medical tests. There is no preference to even those selected HPSP if they don't meet all criteria. It is much harder to get accepted than it looks and requires more than just wanting to be a military doctor.

 

[chilly_md]

Agreed. But you said “screen out”, I thought you were referring to pre-II screening. That was all.

The school is very holistic. It is a limited applicant pool as there is a service commitment and you should feel good about going into military medicine.

 

[Goro]

The school is very holistic. It is a limited applicant pool as there is a service commitment and you should feel good about going into military medicine.

Agreed. Note my comment about the service committment in the list. I expect SDNers to do their homework.