School List Help (521, 3.91, NJ ORM)

[rhino02]

Hello everyone! I would appreciate some thoughts on my school list. I've already submitted my primary (and it was verified) Are there any schools I should remove, add, or swap out?

Stats:

• MCAT: 521 (131/127/131/132)
• Biochemistry Major, Sociology Minor (cGPA: 3.91, sGPA: 3.95)
• NJ Resident
• 23-year-old male ORM
• 2 gap years
• Might be important: I only seriously committed to being "premed" at the end of my sophomore year. I was in biomedical engineering before that. And being an out-of-state student during undergrad, kind of hurt consistency. Also, opportunities during my junior year were pretty affected by Covid.
• So several of my experiences start in my senior year, or the gap year I've had so far (graduated May 2023). Also had to take the MCAT during the gap year.

ECs:

• Clinical Volunteering - 460 Hours (100 hrs at Hospital 1: mix of helping patients access and use the patient portal, as well as visiting/conversing with very sick and elderly patients - very similar to hospice volunteering, 60 hrs Hospice Volunteering: visited one or two elderly patients at different hospices, 300 hrs at Hospital 2: volunteer in the ER, again assisting patients in any needs)
• Non-Clinical Volunteering: ~ 250 Hours (ESL Teacher: teach English conversation/grammar to a class of recent immigrants, one of my favorite activities)
• Non-Clinical Employment: Tutor (100 Hours)
• Research: ~ 400 Hours (Research assistant in 2 Psychology/Neuroscience Labs, no pubs or posters
• Shadowing: 60 hours in the ER/Cardiology
• Leadership: Secretary of my college's Pre-Med Club (100 Hours) ( I know it's a premed club lol, but it was useful to me as a member when I was changing paths.)
• TA for 2 courses: 150 hours
• Hobby: Gardening

Not in my primary: I will start scribing in mid-July. I knew about this when submitting my primary, but since it hadn't started yet I thought it was wiser to just bring it up in secondaries, rather than just listing projected hours, with nothing complete yet. I'll be doing it for a year, so I'm expecting at least 1000 hours (unless I want to do something else later on). I'll also be continuing a lot of the activities I've been doing into the cycle (like the hospital volunteering and the ESL class.)

Here's my school list:

1. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
3. Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
4. Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
5. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
6. Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
7. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
8. Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
9. New York Medical College
10. Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
11. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
12. Drexel University College of Medicine
13. Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
14. University Of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
15. University of Virginia School of Medicine
16. Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
17. Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
18. University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
19. University of Vermont
20. Wayne State University
21. Western Michigan University
22. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
23. Cornell
24. USF Morsani
25. Emory
26. Tufts
27. UMichigan
28. Northwestern
29. Colorado
30. Washington University (St. Louis)
31. Vanderbilt

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[Faha]

Wayne State and Virginia Commonwealth may "yield protect" with your stats. You could add these schools:
NYU (free tuition)
Boston University
Mayo
UMass
Brown

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Can you highlight your activities during your 2 gap years? The numbers seem low for clinical and nonclinical experience. I expect at least 1000 hours in something you have done, not planned. What am I missing?

 

[rhino02]

Can you highlight your activities during your 2 gap years? The numbers seem low for clinical and nonclinical experience. I expect at least 1000 hours in something you have done, not planned. What am I missing?

Sure. The 300 hours of volunteering at Hospital 2, my MCAT, the shadowing, the ESL class are all from the time I graduated last May. My senior year is when I did majority of my research, the volunteering at Hospital 1. To be honest, I never even really considered my senior year as a gap year, because it was essentially the beginning for me.