WAMC - 3.98 GPA, 518 MCAT, ORM, MO Resident

[CatAn4523]

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This is my first post on the forum, so please bear with me if there are any formatting issues 🙂

1. 3.98 cGPA and 3.99 sGPA
2. 518(131, 127, 131, 129), 515 first attempt
3. MO resident
4. Asian American female, ORM
5. Jesuit undergrad(not really highly ranked) - Chemical Biology BS
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer) - 374 hours ED scribe, 300 hours peds MA, 300 hours of ED volunteering(with 100 projected),
7. Research experience and productivity - 1200 hours in cancer biology lab with one publication(high impact journal, but I'm sixth author) and 3 poster presentations on research
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented - 144 hours total(anesthesiology, hospitalist, ENT, emergency med, radiology, general surgery, colorectal surgery)
9. Non-clinical volunteering - 210 hours creating and hosting STEM programs both on campus and at many elementary schools for underserved school districts
10. Other extracurricular activities - working as MA for rheumatology+oncology clinic during gap year, 104 hours as a laboratory prep assistant, 750 hours of TA(for various classes), 300 hours of leadership for student chapter of Doctors w/o Borders, 400 hours leadership for Chemistry Club
11. Relevant honors or awards - 2 awards for service given by my department, Dean's List for all semesters, 2nd place for life sciences division of Sigma Xi(symposium held by my undergrad institution to present student research)
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important - 5 LOR(1 from my PI, 1 from the faculty advisor of Chem Club, 2 from other science profs, 1 MD from the peds office); don't know if this affects anything but I do have pretty significant ties to SoCal as I did live there for ~10 years and was born there

My school list is as follows(I am aware that a couple are mega reaches):
Kaiser
Mizzou
SLU
Albert Einstein
NYU Long Island(Internal Medicine)
UMichigan
Geisel Dartmouth
New York Medical College
Hofstra/Zucker
U of Rochester
USC
UIUC
UMKC
Creighton
Morehouse
Georgetown
Rosalind Franklin
Emory
Rush
Western Michigan Stryker
Drexel
Stanford
Cornell
Brown
Tulane
Boston U
Wayne State
Case Western
Mount Sinai

 

[Faha]

Remove Rush since they expect far more non clinical volunteering hours than you have. Also, Morehouse mainly admits applicants from the Black community. You could add any of these schools:
USF Morsani
Northwestern
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
Hackensack
Tufts
UMass
Cincinnati

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

Your listed non-clinical volunteering to promote STEM expresses academic mastery/competency, not community service orientation that adcoms are looking for (food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, legal support, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation). You should have 150 hours of those activities or your application would be at risk of getting screened out at most schools unless you show a very strong mission fit.

In fact, most of your listed activities are either related to medicine or academics. Where are your fun activities or campus impact (just Chemistry Club?)? You went to a Jesuit college, so I would have expected some community service.