WAMC 515/3.95

[penguin05]

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Looking to apply to 35 schools. Interested in research-focused schools and living in a city with good music (classical or techno haha) - open to quieter towns. Not sure what it's like living in New England like CT or NH and places like that - any insight would be appreciated. Want to be within 2 hours of an international airport. Trying to narrow down my list and see if any of my extras are worth putting on there.

Background Information: * indicates ongoing activities
cGPA: 3.95 sGPA: 3.90
MCAT: 515 (128/128/129/130)

GA resident with family ties in AZ, ORM Asian F, T30

Clinical Experience:

• *Clinical Research Coordinator (patient facing) 600 hours
• Clinical Research Assistant: 200 hours
• *Hospice Volunteer: 300 hours

Non-Clinical Volunteering:

• *Meals on Wheels volunteer: 50 hours
• *Senior home volunteer: 100 hours
• Vice President of non-profit: 250 hours

Shadowing:

• 90 hours - rural family medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, urology, pediatrics, dermatology, anesthesia, oral and maxillofacial surgery, palliative medicine, internal medicine, interventional cardiology

Research:

• Music Thesis: 600 hours
  • Independent research project on exploring piano music embodied as other mediums of art including visual art, dance, and opera
• CRC (research side): 800 hours
• 1 publication in Cardiology magazine by JAAC

Leadership:

• *Co-founder/Advisor of prehealth music club: 100 hours
• Principal keyboardist of the university symphony orchestra: 200 hours

Others:

• ESL English Tutor: 300 hours
• *Piano: >8000 hours
• 30k in music scholarships and stipends, strong narrative with music background

School List

• Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
• Emory
• Morehouse
• University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix (can't do Tuscon due to prereqs)
• University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
• University of Pittsburgh
• Creighton University (Phoenix campus)
• Weill Cornell Medicine
• University of Miami Leonard M. Miller
• Pennsylvania State University
• Tufts
• Albert Einstein
• Sidney Kimmel
• University of Colorado
• Eastern Virginia
• Ohio State
• University of Cincinnati
• Temple
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• Oakland University William Beaumont
• Virginia Commonwealth
• Wake Forest
• Western Michigan
• University of Vermont
• Netter Quinnipac
• Hofstra
• ROWAN-Virtua (DO)
• PCOM (DO)

Iffy ones I'd like help with:

• Case Western
• New York Medical College
• Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin
• Tulane (low yield AF)
• Drexel (low yield AF)
• University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan
• George Washington (low yield AF)
• Hackensack (heard its tough since it's accelerated 3 year)
• UVA (someone told me they like humanities ?? not sure how that checks out)
• UCSF
• UCLA
• Mr Sinai
• Duke
• Dartmouth
• UChicago

 

[Faha]

Morehouse mainly admits applicants from the Black community. Creighton, U Chicago and Tulane are looking for applicants with far more non clinical volunteering than you have. I suggest these schools from your list:

• Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
• Emory
• University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix (can't do Tuscon due to prereqs)
• University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Miami Leonard M. Miller
• Pennsylvania State University
• Tufts
• Albert Einstein
• Sidney Kimmel
• University of Colorado
• Eastern Virginia
• Ohio State
• University of Cincinnati
• Temple
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• Oakland University William Beaumont
• Virginia Commonwealth
• Wake Forest
• Western Michigan
• University of Vermont
• Netter Quinnipac
• Hofstra
• ROWAN-Virtua (DO)
• PCOM (DO)
• New York Medical College
• Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin
• Drexel (low yield AF)
• University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan
• George Washington (low yield AF)
• Hackensack (heard its tough since it's accelerated 3 year)
• Mt Sinai

 

[ophthoaspirant]

I would also apply to Belmont/Frist.