MD WAMC 3.4 GPA, 516 MCAT, URM WV

[InfiniteRose]

URM from WV
cGPA: 3.45
sGPA: 3.35
MCAT: 504, 516

Attended a T40 university

1000 non-volunteer clinical hours (MA and EMT) —> (2k more expected from full time work)
450 volunteer clinical hours (EMT)
1000 research hours (1 poster and 3 pubs, 1 more pub in the works)

68 shadowing hours over two specialties
100 hours non-clinical volunteering (i know this isn’t a lot but will continue to get more)

founded a nonprofit and have a clear interest/ reason for medicine thats reflected in my activities (as well as an MPH with honors acknowledgements and a 4.0)

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[Mr.Smile12]

Where did you grow up in West Virginia?

 

[Faha]

What does your 100 hours of non clinical volunteering involve? Which URM community are you from? If you are Hispanic, are you fluent in Spanish?

 

[InfiniteRose]

Where did you grow up in West Virginia?

near harpers ferry!

 

[InfiniteRose]

What does your 100 hours of non clinical volunteering involve? Which URM community are you from? If you are Hispanic, are you fluent in Spanish?

50hrs of weekly volunteering doing memory puzzles and activities with people in memory care for one school year and then 50hrs and counting doing various grocery delivery and soup kitchen activities at an organization near me. I started doing this because of a newfound interest in food security and nutrition. I’m an AA woman and an immigrant, I don’t speak Spanish.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

What is your plan to transition away from your nonprofit?

 

[InfiniteRose]

What is your plan to transition away from your nonprofit?

There’s a team of us so I plan to take a step back depending on where I am for medical school.

 

[Faha]

Accumulate another 50 hours at the soup kitchen before you submit your application since some schools screen at 150 hours for non clinical volunteering. I suggest these schools with your stats:
West Virginia
Marshall
U Maryland
Howard
Meharry
Morehouse
Charles Drew
Georgetown
George Washington
Miami
Emory
Tulane
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Pittsburgh
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Hofstra
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
New York Medical College
Vermont
Dartmouth
Brown
Tufts
Boston University
Northwestern
Rosalind Franklin
St. Louis
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State