WAMC 3.87/520 (130 all around)

[eqb]

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Hi thank you for your opinions! I am applying both MD PhD and MD programs, and will indicate which one with the schools. For background:

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
   1. cGPA: 3.88 sGPA:3.88
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown
   1. 520 (130,130,130,130)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
   1. GA
4. Ethnicity and/or race
   1. White
5. Undergraduate institution or category
   1. Top LAC
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   1. Shadowing (80+ hrs), hospital volunteer: 80+ ongoing
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. 2 year research fellowship full time, undergrad research. 2 peer-reviewed papers, one first author, multiple poster presenations, local talks
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. Neurology, vascular surgery, cardiology
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. teaching ESL, tutoring spanish-speaking middle schoolers in an organization, teaching brain education days leading neuronataomy, other days teaching overall, showing kids what it is like to be a scientist, tutoring college undergrads,
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. a year of varsity college soccer, quit following injury; gap years doing brain development research in animal models, leadership in job directly in charge of keeping kids alive, safety etc. Mentoring students in the lab setting and training them to be self-sufficient
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. copied and pasted:
    2. summa cum laude, Honors in Psychology, Distinction on the Comprehensive Exam of the major , Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Epsilon Delta, DIS Program Academic Excellence in Neuroscience Award (out of 100+ neuroscience students), Psi Chi, Academic All-Conference, Dean’s List, Top 10% of Class, Fall 2014-Spring 2018
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important

I'm sure there is something I am forgetting, will edit if I remember.

Schools and degree:
Albert Einstein - MD
Columbia - MDPhD
Duke - MDPhD
Emory - MDPhD
Dartmouth - MD
George Washington - MD
Georgetown - MDPhD
Mt. Sinai - MDPhD
Medical College of GA - MD
NYU - MDPhD
UPenn - MD PhD
Stanford - MD
Brown - MD
Tufts - MD
Tulane - MD
USF - MD
UAB - MDPhD
UChicago - MDPhD
Colorado - MDPhD
UNC - MDPhD
UVA - MD (legacy)
Vanderbilt - MDPhD
Wake Forest - MDPhD
WUSTL - MDPhD
Cornell - MDPhD
Yale - MDPhD

 

[gyngyn]

Delete Einstein, Tufts, GW and USF.
Your state schools are better back ups.

 

[eqb]

Delete Einstein, Tufts, GW and USF.
Your state schools are better back ups.

Thanks for your reply. There's only one state school in Georgia, so I was using Tulane and Tufts as more backup schools. Thoughts?

 

[eqb]

Also, can anyone comment on my competitiveness at the schools listed for MDPhD?

 

[eqb]

Also, can anyone comment on my competitiveness at the schools listed for MDPhD?

I also am feeling as though I don't have enough of a safety net...

 

[gyngyn]

Delete Georgetown, unless you are a practicing Catholic. You'd just be wasting your app fee.

GT takes plenty of non Catholics.