Hi everyone, I really appreciate your feedback on my school list.
Stats:
517 MCAT (130, 128, 127, 132)
4.0 GPA
ORM
CA Resident, Top 10 Public University, Senior (CC transfer)
Clinical Experience:
- 350 hours volunteering and shadowing in the Orthopedic Surgery Recovery Unit, ICU, and ED.
- 100 hours of shadowing (10 hours with a radiologist, and 90 hours with an OB-GYN who split his time at a private practice/health clinic in an underprivileged area).
- Pharmacy employee (not a technician) for 1 year (250 hours)
Research:
- 600 hours over the last two years. Have one research paper pending review (not first or second-author) that will hopefully be accepted during my gap year.
- Intend to work full-time at the same lab and start my own project during my gap year.
Volunteering:
- 1 week (45 hours) as a medical volunteer in Guatemala
- 80 hours coordinating community service events through Pi Theta Kappa
- Spent 4 months in high school volunteering in impoverished areas in Israel (I know it's high school, but multiple advisors have recommended that I include this).
ECs:
- 3000 hours (13 years) training to receive my black belt. Spent the last 6 of the 13 years teaching other students.
- 70 hours as a tutor for a special English Academy program designed to help struggling college students.
- Elected to a STEM panel by teachers looking for ways to improve their teaching methods.
Biggest concerns:
- Not enough safeties (and a lot of my safeties are low-yield). I have the budget to apply to many reaches, so I'm shooting my shot.
- I know that my application is quite weak on non-clinical volunteering hours, so I have tried to avoid applying to service-heavy schools.
- Took many of my science courses at CC, but also excelled at science classes at my 4-year university, too.
School List:
Any feedback/recommendations are appreciated! @Goro @Faha @Walter Raleigh @gyngyn
Stats:
517 MCAT (130, 128, 127, 132)
4.0 GPA
ORM
CA Resident, Top 10 Public University, Senior (CC transfer)
Clinical Experience:
- 350 hours volunteering and shadowing in the Orthopedic Surgery Recovery Unit, ICU, and ED.
- 100 hours of shadowing (10 hours with a radiologist, and 90 hours with an OB-GYN who split his time at a private practice/health clinic in an underprivileged area).
- Pharmacy employee (not a technician) for 1 year (250 hours)
Research:
- 600 hours over the last two years. Have one research paper pending review (not first or second-author) that will hopefully be accepted during my gap year.
- Intend to work full-time at the same lab and start my own project during my gap year.
Volunteering:
- 1 week (45 hours) as a medical volunteer in Guatemala
- 80 hours coordinating community service events through Pi Theta Kappa
- Spent 4 months in high school volunteering in impoverished areas in Israel (I know it's high school, but multiple advisors have recommended that I include this).
ECs:
- 3000 hours (13 years) training to receive my black belt. Spent the last 6 of the 13 years teaching other students.
- 70 hours as a tutor for a special English Academy program designed to help struggling college students.
- Elected to a STEM panel by teachers looking for ways to improve their teaching methods.
Biggest concerns:
- Not enough safeties (and a lot of my safeties are low-yield). I have the budget to apply to many reaches, so I'm shooting my shot.
- I know that my application is quite weak on non-clinical volunteering hours, so I have tried to avoid applying to service-heavy schools.
- Took many of my science courses at CC, but also excelled at science classes at my 4-year university, too.
School List:
Any feedback/recommendations are appreciated! @Goro @Faha @Walter Raleigh @gyngyn
| NYU |
| Washington University in St. Louis |
| Yale |
| University of Chicago |
| Vanderbilt |
| Columbia |
| Harvard |
| Northwestern |
| Stanford |
| Mayo Clinic |
| Weill Cornell |
| University of Virginia |
| Icahn Mount Sinai |
| Boston University |
| UCSF |
| UCLA |
| Duke |
| Case Western |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| UC Irvine |
| USC |
| University of Michigan |
| University of Pittsburgh |
| Brown |
| UC San Diego |
| USF |
| University of Cincinatti |
| Ohio State |
| University of Miami |
| Thomas Jefferson University |
| Saint Louis University |
| Emory University |
| UC Davis |
| Wake Forest |
| University of Colorado |
| VCU |
| UC Riverside |
| Kaiser Permanente |
| Loma Linda |
| Tufts University |
| Georgetown University |
| George Washington University |
| Tulane |
| Drexel |
