WAMC (3.91/523) School List Advice

[AceA13]

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[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
All 4 SUNYs
Hofstra
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
NYU (free tuition)
Columbia
Cornell
Rochester
Harvard
Yale
Boston University
Brown
Pittsburgh
U Penn
Johns Hopkins (free tuition)
U Virginia
Duke
Emory
Washington University (in St. Louis-almost a guaranteed interview with your stats)
Northwestern
U Chicago
U Michigan
Case Western
Cincinnati
Mayo

 

[Mr.Smile12]

cGPA: 3.91 sGPA: 3.88
MCAT: 523
... Also concerned that my GPA is on the lower end relative to my MCAT.

Stop hanging around toxic people or other internet trolls. If these are your true stats and experiences, your profile is better than typical cannon fodder.

While some of the patients I worked with were disadvantaged, I don't know if I have sufficient work specifically with underserved communities (how serious of an issue is this?).

Elderly populations are underserved and disadvantaged. Your description of your community, where you worked as a firefighter or at the soup kitchen/food pantry, will determine its intersectionality with other marginalized populations.

Secure very strong letters of recommendation and start researching the secondary prompts at the schools where you want to attend. Do your homework with recruitment visits and meeting students when you can. Also, let go of your sports club unless you want to stay around... which should then dictate your school list.

 

[Faha]

Thank you for the recommendations @Faha . Is there something specific about my application that is favorable for Washington University?

Yes. Your MCAT of 523.

 

[LunaOri]

You should be able to get some shadowing through your work on the geriatric inpatient unit. Geriatrics and internal medicine count as primary care. Ask the doctors you see, or ask the nurses to introduce you to the doctors.

 

[LunaOri]

Thanks - I just recently started shadowing after going through this route 🙂 I didn't realize it counted for primary care though! I'll try getting in some internal shadowing when I'm finished.

Geriatrics is like pediatrics: primary care for a specific population.