Med School List Request
Stats:
GPA Cum/Science: 4.0 (entering my senior year next year)
MCAT: 525 (131/131/131/132)
State/Demographic: Michigan, white male
School: Michigan State University, double majors in Neuroscience and Physiology, minor in Global Public Health and Epidemiology
Parents: Middle class, dad is a dentist while mom became homemaker when they had triplets (me)
Clinical Volunteering:
- Volunteer at ER/Neuro Units: 230 Hours
Shadowing:
- 38 hours shadowing 2 ER docs
- 18 hours shadowing Orthopedic Surgeon
- 60 hours shadowing dentistry (my father)
- (40 more hours were planned in various specialties, postponed due to COVID)
Nonclinical Volunteering:
- 200 hours in club supporting students with disabilities, also VP
- 60 hours at my local library
- 50 hours at Students for Orphan relief club I helped found, also VP
- 20 hours on 7Cups (emotional support website) so far, but plan to have many more as I only discovered it in wake of COVID and so far love it
Research:
- 700 hours in cognitive psych lab over past 3 years, over last year took a step back to become social media manager due to influx of people
- Won Grand Prize for poster presentation at Undergraduate Research Fair last year
- Unfortunately my PI is not proactive about publications, so I am not featured in any
Other:
- 640 hours so far as a TA for Biology, another 320 planned next year
- 60 hours spent privately tutoring students
- 1100 hours in construction, renovating a house with my father
- Piano is one of my hobbies I am listing in my application, had to teach myself for the most part and very important to me (1200 hours)
- Honors college at MSU with scholarship, Deans list every semester, Natural Science scholarship, Professorial Assistantship (exclusive program that let me start my research as a freshman)
- Great LOR’s
- COVID told me to get rekt regarding shadowing
I am very close with my letter of rec professors and I know their writing is of a high caliber, so I am confident they will be good. I had hoped to get more hours in volunteering and shadowing, but COVID disrupted my plans. I've been heavily focusing on my PS and activities descriptions, as I know that my strong suit is academics but I don't want to rely on it.
Please let me know what you guys think, when it comes to my school list I don’t know what is best. I have heard that if your GPA/MCAT is >90 or <10 then you shouldn’t apply to that school, but with that logic it would be hard to apply to a lot of schools that aren’t top tier. I think I can really show my personability and social skills in an interview, so I want to maximize my chances of receiving one so adcoms don’t think I’m just another nerd with no life outside of school. The school list below was made a couple weeks before I got my score back (just got it back today). I know I want to apply to all MI schools, other than that I was hoping y’all could help narrow it down to around ~25 schools. Feel free to tell me what schools I should take off and any schools I should add
Stats:
GPA Cum/Science: 4.0 (entering my senior year next year)
MCAT: 525 (131/131/131/132)
State/Demographic: Michigan, white male
School: Michigan State University, double majors in Neuroscience and Physiology, minor in Global Public Health and Epidemiology
Parents: Middle class, dad is a dentist while mom became homemaker when they had triplets (me)
Clinical Volunteering:
- Volunteer at ER/Neuro Units: 230 Hours
Shadowing:
- 38 hours shadowing 2 ER docs
- 18 hours shadowing Orthopedic Surgeon
- 60 hours shadowing dentistry (my father)
- (40 more hours were planned in various specialties, postponed due to COVID)
Nonclinical Volunteering:
- 200 hours in club supporting students with disabilities, also VP
- 60 hours at my local library
- 50 hours at Students for Orphan relief club I helped found, also VP
- 20 hours on 7Cups (emotional support website) so far, but plan to have many more as I only discovered it in wake of COVID and so far love it
Research:
- 700 hours in cognitive psych lab over past 3 years, over last year took a step back to become social media manager due to influx of people
- Won Grand Prize for poster presentation at Undergraduate Research Fair last year
- Unfortunately my PI is not proactive about publications, so I am not featured in any
Other:
- 640 hours so far as a TA for Biology, another 320 planned next year
- 60 hours spent privately tutoring students
- 1100 hours in construction, renovating a house with my father
- Piano is one of my hobbies I am listing in my application, had to teach myself for the most part and very important to me (1200 hours)
- Honors college at MSU with scholarship, Deans list every semester, Natural Science scholarship, Professorial Assistantship (exclusive program that let me start my research as a freshman)
- Great LOR’s
- COVID told me to get rekt regarding shadowing
I am very close with my letter of rec professors and I know their writing is of a high caliber, so I am confident they will be good. I had hoped to get more hours in volunteering and shadowing, but COVID disrupted my plans. I've been heavily focusing on my PS and activities descriptions, as I know that my strong suit is academics but I don't want to rely on it.
Please let me know what you guys think, when it comes to my school list I don’t know what is best. I have heard that if your GPA/MCAT is >90 or <10 then you shouldn’t apply to that school, but with that logic it would be hard to apply to a lot of schools that aren’t top tier. I think I can really show my personability and social skills in an interview, so I want to maximize my chances of receiving one so adcoms don’t think I’m just another nerd with no life outside of school. The school list below was made a couple weeks before I got my score back (just got it back today). I know I want to apply to all MI schools, other than that I was hoping y’all could help narrow it down to around ~25 schools. Feel free to tell me what schools I should take off and any schools I should add
Johns Hopkins |
Chicago-Pritzker |
Pennsylvania-Perelman |
Columbia-Vagelos |
Yale |
Stanford |
Duke |
University of Michigan |
Harvard |
Oakland Beaumont |
Wayne State |
Western |
Ohio State |
Boston |
Rochester |
Cincinnati |
Albert Einstein |
New York University |
Baylor |
Vanderbilt |
Mayo |
Northwestern-Feinberg |
Virginia |
Cornell-Weill |
Mount Sinai-Icahn |
Case Western (Ohio) |
Pittsburgh |
Emory |
Michigan State |
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