WAMC and School List Help | 3.7/524

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1. cGPA and sGPA: 3.65/3.5
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 524 (129, 132, 132, 131)
3. State of residence: IL
4. Ethnicity and/or race: white
5. Undergraduate institution: T50
6. Clinical experience: ~3000 hours as a clinical coordinator, ~200 hours as a summer medical assistant, ~800 hours as a full time medical assistant
7. Research experience: 800 hours of medical humanities research. My research won institutional awards and gained me an honors designation.
8. Shadowing experience: ~100 hours mostly primary care and anesthesiology.
9. Non-clinical volunteering: pretty weak I think I have at most 100 hours non clinical. Working on strengthening this.
10. Other extracurricular activities: Student body president, volunteer health club, volunteer medical assistant, and various other extracurriculars from college
11. Relevant honors or awards: N/A

I am planning on applying to all schools in my states and the surrounding states. My theme throughout my application is leadership and innovation in medicine. I had a rough upbringing that is my seed for why medicine. Grew up very socioeconomically disadvantaged and with a lot of childhood trauma (not being depressing about it in my writing though!). I need help with finalizing my school list. I would like to get into a T20 program and think I will mostly shine in my interviews.

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[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

Why do you think you are T20 material? We look at more than your metrics; we look for mission fit.

The good news is that you have many options as an in-state Illinois applicant. The bad news is that your non-clinical volunteering must be better. A description would be very nice, especially in the way you have interacted and served marginalized groups in and out of a clinical setting. As such, Rush and Loyola are notorious for wanting a very high number of service orientation hours (at least 500 on submission, I think; they state their average is around 800 or so) and some insight to interprofessionalism.

I would check for the approaches your schools have used regarding "medical humanities." How do you see your experience as a value to your peers?

 

[Faha]

What does your 100 hours of non clinical volunteering involve?