School list help 3.72/517 IL ORM

[ASassyLad]

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25-year-old male, Asian, T20 Undergrad. Chicago Resident. First Gen immigrant

3 gap years in the private sector doing statistical consulting, decided to go become premed again and finished my pre-req (only Orgo II left).

• Major: Econ
• cGPA/sGPA: 3.7/3.7
• MCAT: 517 (130/130/128/129)
• Letters of Rec
  • 1 from senior thesis econ advisor,
  • 1 from an econ professor (kind of a big name in healthcare policies, not sure if she's household name though),
  • 2 from Gen Chem and Orgo.
  • I might ask for another from my boss, TBD.
• Nonclinical Hours:
  • Volunteered to analyze data at a racial justice advocacy in undergrad: 100 hrs.
  • after graduation I started to volunteer at a local church, mix of advocacy and homeless shelter: 50 hours
  • Total: 150 ish.
• Clinical Hours:
  • Companionship with Alzheimer Patients: ~50 hours
  • Showed patients around hospital: 80 hours
  • emergency room (stocking gloves and stuff): 120 hours
  • Cardiac Rehab (take blood pressure): 80 hours
  • Total: 330 hrs
• Research - primarily econ based cuz I was considering econ grad school
  • Data entry for a professor on econ environmental policies: 100 hours
  • Cleaned data for a research group based in law school: 100 hours
  • Senior thesis on healthcare economics - about 150 hrs?
  • No pubs or posters
    • there was a poster for honors dinner, I don't think that counts?
  • Total: 350 hrs
• Shadowing
  • 50 hours with orthopedic surgeon in Japan
  • 25 hours with pediatrician in America
  • Total: 75 hrs
• other ECs
  • Resident Assistant in my junior year
  • Teaching Assistant in my senior year
• School List - roughly based on admit.org
  • Reach
    • Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science College of Medicine
    • Drexel College of Medicine
    • Emory
    • University of Miami
    • Colorado
    • University of Cincinnati
    • Tufts
    • George Washington (I think my hours are low?)
  • Target
    • University of Illinois
    • Western Michigan
    • Quinnipiac University
    • Virginia Commonwealth
    • Temple University
    • Eastern Virginia
    • University of Vermont
    • Texas Christian University
    • Oakland University
    • Virginia Tech
    • Wake Forest
  • Baseline
    • Rosalind Franklin
    • Southern Illinois University
    • Albany Medical College
    • Medical College of Wisconsin
    • Penn State University
  • Other schools I am considering since I went to high school in Georgia
    • Mercer
    • Medical College of Georgia
  • Schools I feel obligated to apply since my significant other is in the area
    • Rush
    • Loyola

 

[Faha]

Your low non clinical volunteering hours will limit your chances for interviews Some schools screen at 150 hours and you have only 50 hours in activities that schools are looking for. Rush and Loyola are looking for applicants with many hundreds of hours of non clinical volunteering. Mercer admits zero non residents.
Charles Drew mainly admits applicants from the Black community.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
Rosalind Franklin
U Illinois
Southern Illinois
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Ponce (St. Louis)
TCU
Roseman
Alice Walton
Belmont
NOVA MD
Methodist
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Hackensack
Albany
New York Medical College
Vermont
Quinnipiac

 

[ASassyLad]

Your low non clinical volunteering hours will limit your chances for interviews Some schools screen at 150 hours and you have only 50 hours in activities that schools are looking for. Rush and Loyola are looking for applicants with many hundreds of hours of non clinical volunteering. Mercer admits zero non residents.
Charles Drew mainly admits applicants from the Black community.

Oof. I thought my work in the advocacy would count. I was told wrongly the patient transportation hours counted as nonclinical, which was why I got complacent too.