WAM(y sibling's) Chances - Are things harder than 6 years ago?

[RhinB]

Sibling is applying to med school. I applied to med school ~6 years ago and did well enough. My siblings seems to have much higher stats than me but is having trouble with apps so far and I'm not really sure why. Maybe the internet can shed some light / tell me if they should be worried yet.

1. cGPA - 3.8x and sGPA - 3.8x
2. MCAT - 525
3. State of Residence - NorthEast
4. Ethnicity / Race - Over-represented in Medicine
5. Undergrad Institution: Top 30 Undergrad
6. Clinical Experience:
   1. Shadowing - 150 hours (3 specialties)
   2. Volunteering - 700 (Hospital transport, patient support)
7. Research Experience:
   1. 1000 hours of research (300 science, 700 health economics / health policy)
   2. 0 publications, 2 posters / presentations
8. Non-Clinical Volunteering: 800 hrs
9. Other extracurriculars:
   1. Exec of pre-med society, teaching and TAing
   2. Currently still doing consulting (gap years) in the healthcare field
10. Honors and Awards:
    1. Presidential Research Scholar Award
    2. Honors Award for my major
11. Other info:
    1. Letters of Rec are average but no LOR from current job (consulting)

Applied to lots of places, ranging from tippity top to top 50. No interviews yet.

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[GoSpursGo]

Applied to lots of places, ranging from tippity top to top 50.

This seems like a likely problem. Even for high stats applicants, there is no way that there are "lots of places" in the top 50 that make sense for any applicant. Would be helpful to see a school list, but they probably need to have cast a larger net and there also may have been some donations on their list.

Would also be helpful to know when they were complete.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Mission fit? Your sibling should know better how competitive their application is because you got in. We don't have enough info to identify a specific issue. Your sibling may get an II tomorrow or later in February.