premed_hopeful101
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New to the Amcas system and would appreciate any advice on my current draft of schools.
cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.6
MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 508 (126/124/129/129)
State of residence or country of citizenship: US Citizen, resident of District of Columbia
Ethnicity and/or race: caucasian (dk if relevant but not born in USA)
Undergraduate institution or category: Canadian
Graduate School: USA, in progress
Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
Research experience and productivity
Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)-
Relevant honors or awards
School list
cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.6
MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 508 (126/124/129/129)
State of residence or country of citizenship: US Citizen, resident of District of Columbia
Ethnicity and/or race: caucasian (dk if relevant but not born in USA)
Undergraduate institution or category: Canadian
Graduate School: USA, in progress
Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Estimated 70 hours by June as hospital volunteer working in helping patients upon arrival and distributing toys patients in paediatrics (continuing up to 2024)
- Beginning January, working as a scribe and MA. (Estimated 500 hours by June, to be continued until 2024 (I wanted to start earlier but I recently moved, and most interviews ended with them not wanting to hire due to me having grad school classes 2x a week :/ )
Research experience and productivity
- 800 hours summer research intern over 2 years, 1 abstract written
- 300 hours year long clinical research -> 1 publication, 1 presentation
- 40 hours (pediatrics, anaesthesiology, reconstructive surgery, critical care)
- Summer English tutor to refugees (100 hours),
- 30 hours Food assistance centre to distribute food to underserved families (ongoing, I usually go 2-3 times a month)
- 65 hours volunteering with children with disabilities to spend time with them
Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)-
- Varsity sports team in the first year of university (500 hours)
- 16 years as a competitive athlete
- Sports coach 130 hours (got stopped due to covid after 4 months)
- Gap year (in grad school right now)
Relevant honors or awards
- Honour roll in uni
- Grad school scholarship (not sure if these are worth mentioning)
- Im aware my mcat and grades aren’t great, so want to make a school list that is realistic and gives me my best shot with a few reaches that i know are unrealistic but I just wanna go for it
- Looking to add a few more schools, and open to removing any that have a super high in-state bias
School list
- George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
- Georgetown University School of Medicine (reach)
- Ohio State University College of Medicine (reach)
- Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (reach)
- Northeast Ohio Medical University (previous residence, strong ties to state)
- The University of Toledo College of Medicine
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
- Central Michigan University College of Medicine
- Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- University of Minnesota Medical School
- Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
- Drexel University College of Medicine
- University of Illinois College of Medicine
- Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
- Wayne State University School of Medicine
- Eastern Virginia Medical School
- Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
- University of Vermont College of Medicine
- Albany Medical College
- Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
- Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
- State University of New York Upstate Medical University
- Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
- Loyola University
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