School List Help(URM(?)/514/3.8x)

[mitecolony8]

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Hi! I'm an undergrad about to graduate, I plan on taking a gap year to apply during the 25-26 cycle and would like to solidify a school list. Here's my info:

Academics
cGPA: 3.8x
sGPA: 3.75
Note: one late withdraw, potential pass fail this semester

Demographics
Residence: in New England
Race: Mixed(Hispanic(South American) and White)
Sex: M
Undergrad: T25 Public, transferred from in-state T150 public as a junior

Experience

• Clinical: 150hrs in memory care unit. Still in undergrad, but have clinical job lined up for summer/app year
• Research: roughly 250 hours in social science research(for credit, focused on childcare availability), followed by poster presentation through current university's undergrad research program. Roughly 220 hours in wet lab, no publication as of yet but starting on project soon( 🙂 ).
• Volunteering: nothing clinical yet. Spent a semester as a one-on-one peer tutor for gen chem through my university. Assistant Scoutmaster, not too many hours(guessing roughly 25 that can reasonably go on the AMCAS) and roughly another 20 as a daycare childcare volunteer.

ECs

• Finance chair of pre-heath professional fraternity
• Assistant Scoutmaster for first two years of college
• Another student club
• Just having jobs throughout undergrad

Shadowing

• 15 hours in neurosurgery
• 40 hours in ER
• 22 hours in general surgery

Others

• Spent first two years of undergrad in state to help caretake and help out family as a direct family member was having chronic health issues. Pretty much all research/clinical work listed above is from my junior year of undergrad forward due to major time constraints

School List(VERY rough draft)

• Tufts
• UMass Chan
• Dartmouth
• Quinnipiac
• Vermont
• SUNY Upstate
• Drexel
• Tulane
• (From here down is more or less out-of-region, and all are "reaches" based on MSAR data)
• Emory
• USC
• Brown
• Colorado
• UMiami
• UCF
• Boston U
• (Complete Moonshots)
• Cornell
• Case Western
• Duke
• Michigan
• UNC
• UCSF
• UCLA
• Northwestern

I'm well aware this is pretty top heavy, and I haven't done enough research on DO schools I'm interested in as I'm more interested in MD but I'm still very open to adding them to the list. Definitely want to be close to residence/near Boston(so does everybody else), and would prefer research focused schools. Any and all constructive criticism is welcome, but I definitely want to put myself out there and see if there's any higher-ranking school I could feasibly have a shot at. I understand where some of my weaknesses are and I plan on doing my best to improve them during my app/gap year. Thanks!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Tell me more about what you feel is your significant non-clinical community service volunteering impact. It's hard to tell from just being an "Assistant Scoutmaster" given that you report relatively lower number of hours (25 hours over the first two years of college???).

"In New England" does not confer residency. Massachusetts is different from Connecticut or Maine. Sure, I guess you could apply to your eligible in-state school if that's what you want.

What is the breakdown of your MCAT?

You have lots of "surgery" in your shadowing. You should consider shadowing some fields that are not surgery-linked.

 

[mitecolony8]

Tell me more about what you feel is your significant non-clinical community service volunteering impact. It's hard to tell from just being an "Assistant Scoutmaster" given that you report relatively lower number of hours (25 hours over the first two years of college???).

"In New England" does not confer residency. Massachusetts is different from Connecticut or Maine. Sure, I guess you could apply to your eligible in-state school if that's what you want.

What is the breakdown of your MCAT?

You have lots of "surgery" in your shadowing. You should consider shadowing some fields that are not surgery-linked.

Apologies for the lack of detail, pretty new to this. Regarding community-based volunteering, the assistant scoutmaster position was me sticking around in the troop I became an Eagle Scout in to help with advancement and projects.

That paired with the childcare volunteering I had during my first two years, in retrospect, was me sort of stat padding while I had applied to schools as a transfer student. Finding those hours was difficult was a commuter schedule and other constraints I’ve outlined, but it was more me sticking with what I knew.

Was hesitant to confirm state, state of residence is New Hampshire. Unfortunately no public med schools in NH 🙁

MCAT breakdown is as follows: 128, 127, 130, 129

Definitely do want to branch out shadowing during app year, that’s a pretty lingering concern about my application I had.

 

[Faha]

Your chances for interviews will be limited due to your low non clinical volunteering hours. Some schools screen out applicants at 150 hours. Your clinical volunteering hours are also low though you do pass the cutoff for many schools. I suggest these schools with your stats:
UMass
Tufts
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
New York Medical College
Hackensack
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
Belmont
Alice Walton
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Methodist (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)