WAMC--3.98/525 started premed sophomore year

[SlothKoala]

Hi! I started pre-med kind of late (my sophomore year), and I am applying as a rising senior.
1. 3.98 cumulative, 4.0 science
2. 525 (131, 131, 131, 132)
3. Connecticut
4. White
5. Ivy league undergrad
6. 380 hours clinical volunteering, mostly in the last year, at a VA hospital, cancer center, and psychiatric hospital
7. ~1100 hours research, 2 poster presentations, 1 honors thesis
8. 77 hours. 30 hours radiation oncology shadowing, 20 hours outpatient psych, 15 hours in-patient psych, 12 hours family med
9. Weakest category, 90 hours Crisis Text Line 🙁 (but significant social justice/advocacy leadership)
10. 400 hours leading school's reproductive rights club, 600 hours a cappella, 120 hours chem tutor
11. Summa cum laude (top 5% of class)
12. Not sure if I should list myself as hispanic, because my grandmother was born in Cuba and my mom identifies as hispanic, but for me growing up, that culture was never part of my life
SCHOOL LIST:

1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Hopkins
4. Columbia
5. UCSF
6. UPenn
7. NYU Grossman
8. Stanford
9. WashU St. Louis
10. Mayo Clinic
11. Northwestern
12. Weill Cornell
13. University of Pittsburgh
14. Icahn at Mount Sinai
15. UVA
16. Brown
17. Colorado
18. University of Rochester
19. Rutgers New Jersey
20. Boston University
21. Albert Einstein
22. Hofstra
23. UMass
24. Jefferson (Kimmel)
25. Stony Brook
26. Rutgers (Robert Johnson)
27. Georgetown
28. Geisel
29. Tufts
30. University of Minnesota
31. University of Connecticut
32. New York Medical College
33. University of Vermont
34. Quinnipiac

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[SlothKoala]

I wrote wrong--I am CURRENTLY a senior, applying this cycle, for one gap year

 

[Mr.Smile12]

With no service orientation activities, your application will likely be screened out. You must have 150 hours minimum when you submit, and if you are playing with other high-metrics applicants, you need at least 250 hours.

What advice have you gotten from your prehealth advisors?

 

[SlothKoala]

With no service orientation activities, your application will likely be screened out. You must have 150 hours minimum when you submit, and if you are playing with other high-metrics applicants, you need at least 250 hours.

With my reproductive rights work, I spent a lot of time working within my community to promote reproductive health access, and even worked with a local homeless shelter to provide menstrual products. I talk a lot about community, and working to improve the world in my PS. Does that count for anything or does only the # of hours matter?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

With my reproductive rights work, I spent a lot of time working within my community to promote reproductive health access, and even worked with a local homeless shelter to provide menstrual products. I talk a lot about community, and working to improve the world in my PS. Does that count for anything or does only the # of hours matter?

They both matter (as a high-metrics applicant especially), and you don't say this in your profile above for me to make a call. Adcoms don't like surprises.

What advice have you received from your prehealth advisors?

 

[SlothKoala]

With no service orientation activities, your application will likely be screened out. You must have 150 hours minimum when you submit, and if you are playing with other high-metrics applicants, you need at least 250 hours.

What advice have you gotten from your prehealth advisors?

My pre-health advisor says I am fine with what I have. 90 hours from crisis text line, and my 4 years (400 hours) of leading my school's reproductive rights club. But I worry she is too lenient

 

[Mr.Smile12]

My pre-health advisor says I am fine with what I have. 90 hours from crisis text line, and my 4 years (400 hours) of leading my school's reproductive rights club. But I worry she is too lenient

What schools accepted similar students with profiles like yours (on the EC side)? My suspicion is that she trusts your metrics will supersede any other concerns so you shouldn't have any trouble (in her opinion).

Reproductive rights club will likely be advocacy/leadership in my book, not service orientation. Crisis text line is not (usually) face-to-face.

You better consider/contact some of the (US) medical schools on this list.

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