School list and WAMC

[deleted989271]

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Undergraduate institution: HYP ’21

sGPA: 3.85

cGPA: 3.87

MCAT: 516

State: NY

Ethnicity: Asian

SES: Low-income, first-generation college student

Clinical experience: will have ~260 hours by June ’22, 130 from Hospital 1 pre-covid (over 2 years), 130 from hospital 2 post-covid (over 1 year)

Research experience: over 2.5 years, wrote a 60 page senior thesis for it, got a B+ (PI will be writing LOR); summer research assistant at another lab; no publications

Shadowing experience: 17 hours of primary care (hoping to bump it up to 40-50 hours by June)

Awards and honors: named to Sigma Xi research honor society

Non-clinical volunteering + other extracurriculars:

- 3.5 years: organize and host free kidney health screenings held two exec positions, including co-pres; did a lot of stuff for this org

- 2 years: served a volunteer mentor to underprivileged youth

- Summer after frosh year: intern at non-profit designing and teaching STEM curriculum to underprivileged youth

- 3 years (but one-week each): orientation leader

- 1 year: treasurer for student conference and raised and allocated a ton of money all by myself

- 2 years: organic chemistry TA

- 1 semester each: physics TA and molecular biology lab TA (former prof and boss will be writing LOR)

- 3/4ths of a year (Sept 2019 to March 2020/covid): belonged to a food cooperative cooking food with others and served as president and chore manager

Other random things I've done not part of school:

- Was appointed for two-year term to serve on my local community board by the borough president (this is NYC) beginning in April 2021; public servant, essentially

- Since Feb 2021, volunteer weekly with local food pantries and involved in voter registration efforts

Gap year work: work at a top consulting firm, mostly in Pharma and healthcare spaces; involved in office recruiting and service events



Most important criteria for schools:

• Urban.
• Business school / dual MD-MBA available
• Good financial aid/scholarships

Very tentative list: ~24 schools right now (aiming for 25 total);

Top (8):

• HMS
• Stanford
• Columbia
• Duke
• NYU
• UPenn
• Yale
• Michigan

High (7):

• Sinai
• Baylor
• Cornell
• Northwestern
• UVA
• UCLA
• UCSF

Mid (5):

• USC-Keck
• URochester
• Einstein
• Hofstra
• Stony Brook

Low (2):

• SUNY Downstate
• UBuff

Other (2):

• Kaiser
• NYU LI

I made this list of on a whim (haven’t done much research into these schools), so its a bit top heavy (but the goal is balance) Thoughts? Any ones I shouldn’t apply to? Any ones I should consider?

 

[MyOdyssey]

Your list is very top heavy.

Consider:
Georgetown (good MBA program)
George Washington
Case Western
Cincinnati
Boston University
All of your state schools
Emory (good MBA program)
Tufts

Baylor is required to have a class that includes 90% TX residents.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Your expectations are also unreasonable, especially when it comes to scholarships. Unless you have a high 520, you will need to hope that you fit the mission of the schools where you are applying. (If you are working at a very notable consulting firm, I guess that is reflected in your list, but you need to be more reasonable and strategic.)

Having a dual MD/MBA is a nice incentive, but what do you expect to do with that combined degree?

 

[deleted989271]

Your expectations are also unreasonable, especially when it comes to scholarships. Unless you have a high 520, you will need to hope that you fit the mission of the schools where you are applying. (If you are working at a very notable consulting firm, I guess that is reflected in your list, but you need to be more reasonable and strategic.)

Having a dual MD/MBA is a nice incentive, but what do you expect to do with that combined degree?

Fair statements - thanks! I guess I might have unreasonable expectations as I went to HYP and had my whole way paid for because of really good financial aid for low-income students. Will certainly keep that in mind.

As for MD-MBA - just gives me options should I decide that doctoring is not my thing. In any case, giving more thought to just dropping the whole med school idea.

But thanks again, @MyOdyssey and @Mr.Smile12 for taking the time to respond 🙂

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Fair statements - thanks! I guess I might have unreasonable expectations as I went to HYP and had my whole way paid for because of really good financial aid for low-income students. Will certainly keep that in mind.

As for MD-MBA - just gives me options should I decide that doctoring is not my thing. In any case, giving more thought to just dropping the whole med school idea.

But thanks again, @MyOdyssey and @Mr.Smile12 for taking the time to respond 🙂

Okay. Definitely not a great reason to pursue MD/MBA. Keep thinking about what draws you in to be a physician. MBA is no guarantee in this world economy. If anything there are too many.