WAMC (518/3.92) Lower Clinical

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Taking a Gap year, will work full time MA for 4-5 months, then be a ski lift operator in the winter.

1. Stats:
MCAT: 518
cGPA: 3.92
sGPA: 3.94

2. Demographics

Male, ORM
IL resident

3. Undergraduate Institution
Top Engineering School, Neuroscience

4. Clinical Experience
Shadowing:
50 (ortho surgery)
8 (Sports Medicine)
20 (Anesthesia)
Volunteering: 120 (Hospice over 2 years), 30 (Hospital)

5. Research Experience
1050
hours
4 posters/conference, Honors Thesis, Research Award from Undergrad, publication coming soon.
Alzheimer's Research (Basic Science Lab but I got involved in medicine because of grandfather with Alzheimer's)

6. Non-clinical Volunteering

Organization 1: Tutoring Student in Chicago Public Schools, living below poverty line
350 hours (5 years)
Organization 2: Teaching Inmates (in Prison) Mathematics to get their GED
180 hours

7. Extracurricular Activities
Academic:
School Ambassador: 200 Hours
Non-Academic:
300, Family and Hospital Relations Director Miracle
-Raised $100,115 ; 2023
-Raised $125,123 ; 2024 (will be matched to get to 250k)
200, VP of Finance, Miracle
Hobbies: Ironman races, ultramarathon, baking bread
8. Relevant honors or awards
Won $1500 to develop my own personal research project this upcoming spring
9. Non-clinical Paid Employment
Working as a ski lift operator in the winter during gap year (hopefully will do ski patrol after), should have 100 hours as an MA before I apply, and will accrue 500+ before I do ski lift operating/ski patrol

School List
Emory
UIC
Carlisle
Feinberg
Priztker
Brown
Iowa
Michigan
MCW
UW Madison
BU
Tufts
Einstein
Dartmouth
Sinai
Rosalind Franklin
Drexel
GW
USC
Rush
Stanford
Colorado
Mayo
Arizona
Cincinnati
Case Western
Duke
Hofstra
NYU
Columbia
Penn
 
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Remove Rush since they expect far more clinical and non clinical volunteering hours than you have. You should accumulate another 100+ hours of clinical volunteering hours before you apply since at top tier schools you will be competing with applicants who have many hundreds or thousands of hours of clinical and non clinical volunteering. You could add these schools:
Western Michigan
UMass
Jefferson
Temple
Wake Forest
USF Morsani
TCU
Washington University (in St. Louis)