WAMC 518/3.8- reapplicant

[md2024_12]

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1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
   • 3.8, 3.9
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts.
   • 518.
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
4. Ethnicity and/or race
   • Asian
5. Undergraduate institution or category
   • T20 public university
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   • Volunteer: 400hrs( at different hospitals)
   • Non-volunteer: Scribe 1000hrs
7. Research experience and productivity
   • 3 research gigs.
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   • None other than shadowing while scribing (ER)
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   • ~50 hrs tutoring. I could use part of the volunteering hours at the hospital since some of it was administrative.
   • ~60 hrs working with seniors at Hospice.
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    • Lead MA in my gap year. Plan to continue this year as well.
    • Art for 13 years
11. Relevant honors or awards
    • Award received for research. Graduated summa cum laude.
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important

Reapplying to the ones in bold. Added couple DO schools to the list this time.

• Emory
• George Washington
• Keck
• MCG
• Mercer
• Midwestern University Chicago (DO)
• Moorehouse
• NYMC
• Nova Southeastern University (DO)
• Penn state
• NY Downstate
• Tulane
• Loyola
• Uof Connecticut
• U of Vermont
• Uof Virginia
• Vanderbilt

Looking for advice on school list and honest feedback. TIA!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums. The details matter with your experiences, so make sure you get feedback. Where did you interview?

If I could summarize my impression of your WAMC profile (which is NOT your AMCAS, remember), it's that you seem to (again) be a day late and dollar short.

That said, you seem to be very ER heavy and haven't had much experience in other non-emergent areas of medicine. Details with your shadowing would help, but you should have more variety and insight than you show here. Future hours mean nothing when you submit your application.

Your non-clinical volunteering does little to address service orientation. Without 150 hours completed before submission, your application may be screened out at most schools. As a reapplicant, you must have this covered to show improvement... but it doesn't seem like you have done this.

I make no attempt to ascertain mission fit due to lack of detail. Mercer takes applicants with a documented passion for rural health.

 

[Faha]

Where were your interviews and which schools did you apply to?

 

[candbgirl]

So what have you done to significantly improve your application?
You applied without any shadowing. Get 50 hours of shadowing , with a good chunk in primary care, before you reapply.
You also don’t meet the bare minimum in nonclinical volunteering. Tutoring is its own category. Working with hospice patients is wonderful, but depending on what you do , it might be more clinical. And adding administrative hours from your clinical volunteering to nonclinical volunteering won’t help
Did you have several people read your essays?
Have you thought about taking a gap year and filling in the holes in your application?
Save some money at take Loyola off your list. They expect, and get , hundreds if not thousands of service hours from their applicants.
Good luck.

 

[md2024_12]

Thank you all for taking time to review & respond. I got no interviews this cycle, was "on-hold" at couple which got dropped. What I have added since last cycle - Job as MA & volunteering (hospice & hospital). I have had no luck securing shadowing gig so far.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Scribing for 1000 hours... I can count a small number (50) to count as shadowing. I'm not concerned about your shadowing as much, though it may help you to get more... this is where your lack of detail hurts this analysis.

No commitment to non-clinical service orientation activities likely doomed your file for most of the schools on your list. Seeing that you didn't address this in your application year might doom you if you decide to apply for the impending cycle. You haven't gotten off this treadmill, so...

Again, it would be nice to have details.

 

[Faha]

Where is your state of residence?

 

[md2024_12]

Where is your state of residence?

GA

 

[Mr.Smile12]

GA

Really??? Why didn't you apply to MCG the first time? (Again, non-clinical volunteering needs to be addressed.)

Morehouse is an HBCU medical school so explain your fit.

UConn I think leans in-state and regionally, but check the MSAR about this.

Why Keck?

 

[Faha]

You can assign 50 hours of your scribing hours to shadowing hours. Your lack of non clinical volunteering will limit your chances for interviews.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
Medical College Georgia (may be a new campus opening)
Mercer
Emory
NOVA MD
USF Morsani
Belmont
Alice Walton
TCU
Roseman
Colorado
Arizona (Phoenix)
Ponce (St. Louis)
Rosalind Franklin
Iowa
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Wake Forest
Methodist (when it opens)
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
Hackensack
Hofstra
New York Medical College
Albany
Rochester
Vermont
Quinnipiac
UMass
Tufts