WAMC 523/3.93 (Repost from premed forum)

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mallcat

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I posted this in the larger pre med forum but I figured I’d ask here as well. My main concern is lack of publications and low volunteer hours.
Hopefully this is enough info to be useful! I know I have pretty low volunteering hours but I could get those up if it's going to be a big problem applying to MD-PhD programs.


cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: Don't know yet but GPA right now is 3.93
MCAT: 523 130/130/131/132
Residence: California
Ethnicity and/or race: ORM
Undergraduate institution or category: T20
Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): Hospital volunteering - 140 hours completed, will probably get to around 300 during my gap year
Research experience and productivity: 3.5 years in one lab (~2000 hours upon grad and 2000ish more during gap year), multiple school-wide undergraduate posters/presentations, poster + talk at large international conference + 1st author abstract from this. No pubs aside from several abstracts I have authorship on from others in my lab :/ I'll be on two manuscripts as second author but not before I apply. I am pretty much independent but projects are all related to grad student mentor's work.
Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 60 hours - pediatrics, outpatient neurology, neurosurgery
Non-clinical volunteering: 80 hours free resources organization at time of application will probably get 100 more hours during gap
Other extracurricular activities: reviewer for undergrad research journal, co-founder + director of recruitment LGBTQ+ interest org, tutor for program focusing on underserved students (paid), writer for school newspaper
Relevant honors or awards: nothing crazy just dean's honors list + major related stuff
Other: will be continuing in same lab during my gap year continuing independent research but won't be under a grad student anymore. I will have two strong LORs from PIs + two more from other professors

School list ordered by GPA of matriculants descending (from what I could find online)
Northwestern
Harvard
Emory
UPenn
UCSF
Vanderbilt
UChicago
Tri-I
Duke
Columbia
Stanford
MC Wisconsin
Yale
WashU
UCLA Caltech
U Washington
Tufts
UNC
UCSD
CWRU
Pittsburgh/CMU
Icahn
UCD
UVA
Boston University
Rutgers/Princeton
UMass-Chan
UCI
CU Anschutz
Albert Einstein
 
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