School List Help - 3.87c/520

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1. cGPA: 3.87; sGPA: 3.83
2. 520; 128/128/132/132
3. VA
4. White female
5. Public liberal arts (majored in Biology, minored in English)
6. Clinical experience
   1. Patient partner volunteer: 60 hrs (met virtually with patients weekly to discuss diet to help with losing weight in a pilot study); free clinic for underserved
   2. Intake volunteer: 40 hrs so far (taking blood pressure, blood glucose, etc.); free clinic for underserved
   3. Hospice volunteer: 5 hrs so far, just started last week
7. Research experience
   1. Undergrad research assistant – 1.5 k, 3 years; presented poster at conference and won award; wrote and defended an honors thesis (was told I would be on two pubs that have yet to be submitted)
   2. Post-bacc research fellowship – 2k so far (6k total projected); 1 mid-author pub; (at least one more pub projected and two posters projected)
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. Radiation oncology: 6 hr
   2. Surgical oncology (specifically endocrinology and urology): 15 hr
   3. Interventional radiology: 15 hr
   4. GYN oncology: 30 hr
   5. Hematopathology: 6 hr (will be getting more)
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. Patient advocate – 120 hr; helped uninsured patients get name-brand medications from pharmaceutical companies
   2. County volunteer – 30 hr so far; plant trees, pick up grass, and identify and remove non-native, invasive plants
10. Other extracurricular activities:
    1. Helped establish club that advocates for awareness of rare diseases and raise money to fund research, was head of marketing committee (20 hrs as head of marketing; 30 hrs as general member)
    2. Field hockey club throughout undergrad, was captain senior year (1k hours as teammate, ~300 hr of those as captain)
       1. I’ve played field hockey since I was 8 years old, was on varsity all 4 years in high school and captain my senior year; I plan to play recreationally on an adult association in fall
    3. Mentoring high school students interested in STEM (current; 20 hrs so far)
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Fellowship grant to conduct thesis research
    2. Travel award for conference
    3. Honorable mention for poster presentation at conference (already mentioned above)
    4. Undergrad graduation award for the senior showing highest excellence in molecular and cellular biology

I don’t have a set list yet; I’m wondering if you all might have some recommendations for me? Also areas that I should strengthen? I plan on applying next cycle. I don't want to apply to west coast schools (want to stay near east coast if possible) so I can stay closer to my family. I know for sure I would like to apply to:

UVA
VCU
Virginia Tech
University of Vermont
Duke
Tufts

 

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Are you planing to apply this June or June 2025 ?

 

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Are you planing to apply this June or June 2025 ?

June 2025

 

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June 2025

You do not need any more shadowing hours. Concentrate on increasing your clinical and non clinical volunteering hours. For non clinical volunteering another 80+ hours of patient advocate activity would be good. Clinical volunteering that is virtual does not have have has much value as in person activities. If you can accumulate another 100+ hours at hospice that would help your chances.The more hours the better.
If you accumulate those hours I suggest these schools:
U Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Duke
Emory
USF Morsani
Vanderbilt
Washington University (in St. Louis-almost a guaranteed interview with your stats)
Northwestern
U Michigan
Cincinnati
Case Western
George Washington
Johns Hopkins
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
U Penn
Hackensack
Hofstra
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
NYU (free tuition)
Columbia
Rochester
Vermont
Dartmouth
Brown
Yale
Tufts
Boston University

 

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You do not need any more shadowing hours. Concentrate on increasing your clinical and non clinical volunteering hours. For non clinical volunteering another 80+ hours of patient advocate activity would be good. Clinical volunteering that is virtual does not have have has much value as in person activities. If you can accumulate another 100+ hours at hospice that would help your chances.The more hours the better.
If you accumulate those hours I suggest these schools:
U Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Duke
Emory
USF Morsani
Vanderbilt
Washington University (in St. Louis-almost a guaranteed interview with your stats)
Northwestern
U Michigan
Cincinnati
Case Western
George Washington
Johns Hopkins
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
U Penn
Hackensack
Hofstra
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
NYU (free tuition)
Columbia
Rochester
Vermont
Dartmouth
Brown
Yale
Tufts
Boston University

Thank you so much for your recommendation!!