WAMC (516/3.63)

[HelpMeAhhHelp]

1. cGPA 3.63, sGPA 3.34
2. MCAT: 516 (130/125/130/131) RIP CARS
3. NY, USA
4. White
5. Marist College
6. Clinical experience
   1. Medical Assistant: 650 hours and counting
      1. Dual practice internal/occupational medicine
      2. EKGs, PFTs, vitals, vision, hearing, vaccines, phlebotomy, etc.
   2. Crisis Text Line Support: 100 hours and counting
7. Research experience
   1. 120 hours research, 1 publication 2nd author
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. No shadowing - hoping clinical would help (spent 2 weeks shadowing as I was trained ~ 80 hours)
      1. Dual practice internal/occupational medicine
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. Assistant Track and Field Coach: 600 hours
   2. Student Government Vice President of Athletic Affairs: 420 hours
   3. Member of SAAC (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee): 30 hours
   4. Member of SAFES (Student-Athletes for Emotional Support): 30 hours
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. NCAA Div. 1 Cross Country/Track and Field: 2900 hours
       1. Captain of Cross Country and Track and Field: 725 hours
       2. 2 school records
    2. Co-Founder and VP of Research of mental health company for students: 500 hours
    3. Poster Presentation at CURSCA (3 posters over 2 years)
    4. Tutor/Lab Assistant: 130 hours
    5. Intramurals Worker (paid, non-medical): 450 hours (promoted to supervisor)
    6. Chair of FOXPYs Committee: 200 hours
    7. Co-Creator of Scholarship for Track and Field Athletes in High School
    8. Hiking club
    9. Hobby: Training for Ironman
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. (Athletic Conference) Student-Athlete of the Month
    2. Gerrard A. Cox Award for excellence in leadership for Student Government
    3. All-Academic Teams for all years in college

School list so far:

Rush

Albany

Upstate

Buffalo

GW

UVM

Temple

Penn State

Drexel

Wake Forest

Rutgers RWJ

Geisinger

Quinnipiac

Downstate

UMaryland

UConn

Georgetown

University of Colorado

Tufts

Thomas Jefferson

Rutgers

Hackensack Meridian

New York Medical College

Dartmouth

UMass

Albert Einstein

Brown

Stony Brook

BU

Icahn

Hofstra

Duke

NYU

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[Faha]

You have 2 major weaknesses in your application which you should remedy before you submit your application. You have no shadowing hours but you can include the 80 hours during your training and subtract that from your Medical Assistant hours. Your non clinical volunteering hours are not what medical schools are looking for. You should accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering (food bank, homeless shelter, etc.) before you submit your application. Your 100 hours of crisis text line support could be included under non clinical volunteering. On your list Rush expects many hundreds or thousands of hours of non clinical volunteering. You also have state public schools on your list that admit few non residents with your stats and no connection to the state as well as schools that are unrealistic with your sGPA of 3.34.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
All 4 SUNYs
Albany
NYMC
Hofstra
Einstein
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Tufts
Hackensack
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
Belmont
NOVA MD
TCU
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Alice Walton (when it opens)

 

[HelpMeAhhHelp]

Your non clinical volunteering hours are not what medical schools are looking for. You should accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering (food bank, homeless shelter, etc.) before you submit your application. Your 100 hours of crisis text line support could be included under non clinical volunteering.

Thank you for your input! So crisis text line counts as non-clinical volunteering but it wouldn't count towards the 150+ hours that you mentioned because it's not in person?

 

[Faha]

Thank you for your input! So crisis text line counts as non-clinical volunteering but it wouldn't count towards the 150+ hours that you mentioned because it's not in person?

Yes, in person, off campus non clinical volunteering are what schools are looking for.

 

[candbgirl]

1. cGPA 3.63, sGPA 3.34
2. MCAT: 516 (130/125/130/131) RIP CARS
3. NY, USA
4. White
5. Marist College
6. Clinical experience
   1. Medical Assistant: 650 hours and counting
      1. Dual practice internal/occupational medicine
      2. EKGs, PFTs, vitals, vision, hearing, vaccines, phlebotomy, etc.
   2. Crisis Text Line Support: 100 hours and counting
7. Research experience
   1. 120 hours research, 1 publication 2nd author
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. No shadowing - hoping clinical would help (spent 2 weeks shadowing as I was trained ~ 80 hours)
      1. Dual practice internal/occupational medicine
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   
   1. Assistant Track and Field Coach: 600 hours
   2. Student Government Vice President of Athletic Affairs: 420 hours
   3. Member of SAAC (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee): 30 hours
   4. Member of SAFES (Student-Athletes for Emotional Support): 30 hours
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. NCAA Div. 1 Cross Country/Track and Field: 2900 hours
       1. Captain of Cross Country and Track and Field: 725 hours
       2. 2 school records
    2. Co-Founder and VP of Research of mental health company for students: 500 hours
    3. Poster Presentation at CURSCA (3 posters over 2 years)
    4. Tutor/Lab Assistant: 130 hours
    5. Intramurals Worker (paid, non-medical): 450 hours (promoted to supervisor)
    6. Chair of FOXPYs Committee: 200 hours
    7. Co-Creator of Scholarship for Track and Field Athletes in High School
    8. Hiking club
    9. Hobby: Training for Ironman
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. (Athletic Conference) Student-Athlete of the Month
    2. Gerrard A. Cox Award for excellence in leadership for Student Government
    3. All-Academic Teams for all years in college

School list so far:

Rush

Albany

Upstate

Buffalo

GW

UVM

Temple

Penn State

Drexel

Wake Forest

Rutgers RWJ

Geisinger

Quinnipiac

Downstate

UMaryland

UConn

Georgetown

University of Colorado

Tufts

Thomas Jefferson

Rutgers

Hackensack Meridian

New York Medical College

Dartmouth

UMass

Albert Einstein

Brown

Stony Brook

BU

Icahn

Hofstra

Duke

NYU

All of your non-clinical volunteering is very much in your comfort zone. You need to get off campus and out of your comfort zone. Medicine is a service profession and you have to show ADCOMS that you can deal with people very unlike yourself, especially when these people are sick and at their very worst. None of your listed activities gets close to what schools are looking for.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Your profile is great to highlight when you are running for your Ironman. (Sir Roger Bannister vibes.) But it's not sufficient for a desirable medical school application.