WAMC: 519 MCAT, 3.6 GPA Re-applicant

[randompremed001]

Hi all,

Applying for the second time this year. Last year, I submitted 19 secondaries and received zero interviews. Hoping to turn my luck around this time. Really just trying to see if I am missing anything glaring that these schools are looking for.

Cumulative GPA: 3.61
Science GPA: 3.50
MCAT Scores: 519 (128, 130, 129, 132)
Year in school: Graduated Fall 2017
Country/state of residence: USA/Minnesota
Ethnicity: Caucasian Male
Undergraduate Institution: Big Ten School, Neuroscience Major
Clinical Experience:

• ER technician: ~5000 hours at level 3 trauma center in metro
• Volunteer at different hospital for ~250 hours, front desk and neuro unit

Research experience:

• 2 labs, no publications, 1 poster (800 hours)

Shadowing experience:

• Orthopedic surgeon (40 hours)

- Plastic surgeon (8 hours)
- Anesthesiologist (8 hours)
- Critical care (8 hours)
Non-clinical volunteering:
- At-risk youth English tutor (70 hours)
- Social Organization Service Chair (100 hours)
- Local food shelf (70 hours)
- Non-profit rehabilitation center (30 hours)
Extracurricular activities:
- Student government position held for 3 years
- Men’s recreational soccer league for 5 years
- Weight lifting
- Hiking
- Science fiction novels
Interested in family medicine, internal medicine
No graduate degrees, only NREMT-B
Mother is a nurse
No interest in rural medicine
Schools:
MD

• Albany Medical College
• Boston University
• Case Western
• Eastern Virginia
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• Ohio State University
• Rush University
• Rutgers-Newark
• Rutgers-Piscataway
• TCU
• Thomas Jefferson University
• University of Iowa-Carver
• University of Maryland
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Rochester
• University of South Florida
• University of Utah
• University of Wisconsin - Madison
• VCU
• Wayne State University
• Wake Forest University
• St. Louis University
• Quinnipiac University
• University of Virginia

DO

• Chicago College
• Kansas City University
• Ohio University
• Philadelphia
• Western University

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[SweetBurger]

im pretty sure if you are not from NJ applying to rutgers is a donation. likely same with Utah

 

[Faha]

What were the 19 schools you applied to this past cycle ?

 

[randompremed001]

What were the 19 schools you applied to this past cycle ?

Albany, EVMS, Emory, Quinnipiac, George Washington, Temple, MCW, Rush, SUNY Downstate, Tufts, USF, Cincinnati, Colorado, Iowa, Louisville, Miami, Minnesota, Rochester, UW - Madison, Wake Forest.

Also, I lived in New Jersey for a long time

 

[Faha]

Remove Utah since they accept very few non residents with no connection to the state. Consider adding these schools:
Vermont
Tufts
New York Medical College
Seton Hall
Drexel
Temple
George Washington
NOVA MD
Creighton
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Kaiser
Cooper Rowan

 

[m1redsox]

Why aren’t you applying to U Minn again? It’s your state school. Definitely remove Utah.