WAMC 3.9 512 ORM

[deleted1125449]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to create a medical school list and I would appreciate any guidance. I am a Texas resident but I go to a school in California, so I'm honestly not sure how many non-texas schools I should be applying to. Thank you in advance!


GPA: 3.93
MCAT: 512 (129/125/128/130)
State: TX (but all of my activities have been in CA)
Ethnicity: Asian
Undergrad: T40 in CA
Clinical: ~550 hours (scribe&assistant, hospice volunteer, free clinic)
Research: ~800 hours (no publication, got a research scholarship once + presented at a school conference)
Shadowing: 50 hours (FM/Psychiatry/Ortho/Pulm)
Non-Clinical: ~800 hours (tutor in an underserved school, hospital volunteering)
Leadership: ~800 hours (officer for a premed club for two years, VP this year)
Rel Honors: dean's list, PBK, magna cum laude

TMDSAS schools:

Baylor College of Medicine

UT San Antonio

UT Southwestern

UT Austin Dell

McGovern Medical School

Texas A & M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

AMCAS schools:

Warren Albert (Brown)

Boston University

UC San Francisco

Kaiser

U of Arizona - Phoenix

USC

Emory

Albert Einstein

UC Irvine

UC San Diego

New York Medical College

Rutgers - New Jersey

U of Colorado

Tufts

UCLA

California University

Rosalind Franklin

U of Arizona - Tucson

UC Davis

Albany

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[Faha]

Apply to all your TMDSAS schools. OOS MD schools interview few Texas applicants with a MCAT of 512 since they know from years of experience that Texas applicants will attend a Texas school. For AMCAS schools you could try Tulane and TCU.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Clinical: ~550 hours (scribe&assistant, hospice volunteer, free clinic)
Research: ~800 hours (no publication, got a research scholarship once + presented at a school conference)
Shadowing: 50 hours (FM/Psychiatry/Ortho/Pulm)
Non-Clinical: ~800 hours (tutor in an underserved school, hospital volunteering)
Leadership: ~800 hours (officer for a premed club for two years, VP this year)

Please break down the hours as you listed them in W/A on your AMCAS.

How is your free clinic work "clinical"? How is your hospital volunteering "non-clinical"? What were your responsibilities in each?

 

[deleted1125449]

Please break down the hours as you listed them in W/A on your AMCAS.

How is your free clinic work "clinical"? How is your hospital volunteering "non-clinical"? What were your responsibilities in each?

Here is the breakdown!

• Scribe & Assistant: 250
• Hospice: 250
• Free Clinic: 50 (registered pts, took vitals, scribe, etc)

Nonclinical CS:

• Tutoring: 750
  • 200 on campus working with ESL international college students
  • 150 at a school for aspiring first gen high school students, taught math
  • 400 at a middle school as a CollegeCorps fellow, taught math and AVID)
• Hospital: 50 (assisted the unit secretary, received calls from patients and relayed them to nurses. I didn't think this was direct patient care, but please let me know it you think otherwise!)

 

[deleted1125449]

Apply to all your TMDSAS schools. OOS MD schools interview few Texas applicants with a MCAT of 512 since they know from years of experience that Texas applicants will attend a Texas school. For AMCAS schools you could try Tulane and TCU.

Thank you for your response! I will add those schools. Are there any schools that you would recommend removing?

 

[Faha]

Thank you for your response! I will add those schools. Are there any schools that you would recommend removing?

Yes, all the other non Texas MD schools you listed. You could include the MD school in CA that is associated with your undergraduate school if there is one.