UserNameIsTitan
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Hey everyone!
Very excited to finally be at the point of applying and was looking to get some outside opinion on rounding out my school list. My primary was already submitted with a few schools that I knew I would be applying to regardless, but I finally got my MCAT score back recently and I'm looking to add the rest of my schools now that I have the full picture.
School List (in no particular order):
Very excited to finally be at the point of applying and was looking to get some outside opinion on rounding out my school list. My primary was already submitted with a few schools that I knew I would be applying to regardless, but I finally got my MCAT score back recently and I'm looking to add the rest of my schools now that I have the full picture.
- cGPA and sGPA: cGPA: 3.75 sGPA: 3.82
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 514 (129,126,130,129)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): rural NW
- Ethnicity and/or race: White, ORM, disadvantaged per AMCAS
- Undergraduate institution or category: CC/non-big name state school
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): Hospital (Paid): ~1000 hours completed, directly clinical with hands-on patient care; Out of hospital (Paid): well over 10000 hours with several thousand more projected, also clinical with direct patient care; Out of hospital (volunteer): ~2000 hours in similar role just as an unpaid volunteer
- Research experience and productivity: ~1500 hours with a similar number projected; current research is clinical adjacent with direct applicability to patient care/public health; no publications in the works but multiple oral and poster presentations (mostly low impact, but one large national conference)
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: Hard to truly estimate because of my clinical background but ~200ish hours to throw a number out there; wide range of specialties including FM, EM, GAS, several surgical subspecialties, Peds, IM/interventional cards
- Non-clinical volunteering: ~1000 hours; public outreach organization that focused primarily on public safety and service to underserved; involved aiding with and hosting various functions (think Coats for Kids drives etc.) as well as renovation of some community buildings
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): Several leadership positions: held leadership position with volunteer organization for several years, am in a supervisory position in my clinical field, and served in an elected role for a student organization; several years of tutoring experience in various bio/chem/psych topics as well as being an A&P TA for a year; involved in several clubs with nothing too notable to report other than participating in publishing a small international document as part of a larger parent organization.
- Relevant honors or awards: Several small scholarships; Selected as most outstanding graduating senior for both of my bachelor's degree programs; Peer-selected for small humanitarian award from volunteer organization.
- Anything else not listed you think might be important: I'm looking at MD only for this cycle (nothing against DOs, y'all are awesome! I just think MD is the route that fits me better at this time. I'm still open to DO suggestions if anyone thinks they are super great fits though); My state has no in-state option but I have significant ties to WA. I have no specific preference for any particular field at this time, but it is important to me to keep my options open in the event that I fall in love with a more competitive field. In-house research options are important to me but other than that I am open to going just about anywhere.
School List (in no particular order):
- Cincinnati
- Quinnipiac
- Albany
- Rush
- Penn State
- Jefferson
- UCF
- USF
- OHSU
- Colorado
- Arizona-Tucson
- Arizona-Phoenix
- Washington
- Utah
- Western Michigan
- Michigan State
- Hofstra
- Dartmouth
- Pitt
- Northwestern
- Mayo
- Stanford
- WashU
- UCSF
- UCLA
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