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[Mr.Smile12]

You need more traditional non-clinical community service. Your ESL work is worthwhile, but you are still below the 150 hour threshold that most schools use to eliminate applicants. You need some traditional experience showing service orientation in non-clinical settings: food distribution, shelter work, job placement services (which you are doing a little bit), transportation services, or housing rehabilitation.

What about your PREview or Casper?

Suggestion: Reserve disclosing your chronic illness for the Other Impactful Experiences essay. Do not dwell on it so much in your personal statement.

 

[Faha]

UC San Diego admits few non residents with no connection to the state. You could add these schools:
Western Michigan
Hofstra
George Washington
Cincinnati
Medical College Wisconsin

 

[theoceanman]

Your extremely low non-clinical hours and lack of community service that fits a certain need will prevent you from being mission-fit any many schools, even those that emphasize research and stats even.

You should aim to get 150-200 hours at the bare minimum in community service before you apply otherwise you will be screened out, especially by those “name-brand” schools that get applicants with good stats and good experiences with the relative high amount of hours.

You also lack primary care shadowing which may be nit-picking, but that may get you screened out as well since you shadowed physicians that specialized past internal medicine. You should also try to shadow a primary care physician for 30-50 hours if you’re able to meet the community service hours cutoff before you submit.