WAMC and School List Help for Upcoming cycle

[immantis]

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Looking for some help for the upcoming cycle. Thank you so much!

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1. cGPA and sGPA: 3.65 and 3.54 (large upward trend)
2. MCAT score(s): 508 (127/124/128/129), 517 (129/126/131/131)
3. State of residence: Florida
4. Ethnicity and/or race: ORM, white
5. Undergraduate institution or category: Top 5 school in Canada
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 1120 hours as an ED Scribe, 300 hours as a clinical research assistant, 300 hours medical assistant/scribe for home visits, 56 hours nursing home volunteer
7. Research experience and productivity: 3800 hours lifestyle medicine/longevity research, 965 hours basic science research (2 first author publications, 1 second author publication, multiple posters and oral presentations)
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 8 hours plastic surgery, 8 hours gastroenterology, 40 hours family medicine/sports medicine
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 300 hours Tennis/wheelchair tennis coach for underserved communities, 100 hours health educator in underserved communities, 100 hours ICU volunteer (greeting visitors at front desk)
10. Other extracurricular activities: Hobbies: tennis (compete in tournaments), plant-based cooking
11. Relevant honors or awards: nutrition research award
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important: FAP recipient, low SES, lifestyle med narrative

School list
IS:
FAU
FIU
FSU
UCF
UF
UMiami

OOS:
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Quinnipiac
Medical College of Wisconsin
Sidney Kimmel
University of Maryland
VCU
Virginia tech
West Virginia school of medicine
Oakland
Wayne state
Umass
Wmed Stryker
Creighton
Hackensack meridian
Hofstra
Cincinnati
Pitt
Vermont
Dartmouth
University of Ohio
Wake forest
Tulane
University of Illinois
George Washington University
Indiana University
Penn state
Temple
Drexel
Loyola
Rush
SUNY downstate
Albert Einstein
Colorado
NYMC
Emory
Iowa
Neomed
Albany
TCU
Rosalind franklin
Geisinger
Boston University
University of wisconsin
Boston u
Saint Louis U
Minnesota
Stony brook
Belmont nashville
Georgetown
Rochester
Kaiser
Alice walton
Case western
CCLM
Wright state
Brown
Mount sinai

 

[chilly_md]

Too many OOS schools that either take majority in-state/a neighboring state, or out of your stat range (Sinai, Case, Pitt etc).

Your non-clinical volunteering is limited mostly to tennis lessons it seems. That could hinder you at service-heavy schools like Loyola.

I suggest all your in-state options and the following:

Eastern Virginia Medical School
Quinnipiac
Medical College of Wisconsin
VCU
V Tech (maybe)
Oakland
Wayne state
Hackensack meridian
Vermont
Wake forest
Tulane
George Washington University
Penn state
Temple
Drexel
Loyola
NYMC
Albany
Rosalind franklin
Belmont
Alice walton

You probably should have a few DO options. I would recommend:

PCOM
DMU
KCU
Campbell
ACOM
Touro NY
NYIT

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Your service orientation seems weak. Only 100 hours as a health educator to underserved communities... that's not quite the level of involvement that we would want (though it is important in a health-adjacent way). Are you directing patients to community health resources? Are you involved with food distribution, shelter volunteering, job/tax preparation, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation? You must have 150 hours by the time you submit your application to avoid getting screens out at most schools. Ideally you must have 250 or more at the start of the cycle.

Tennis coach to wheelchair-bound individuals is service that is an extension of your hobby where you are an expert. Consequently this activity barely moves the needle.

Lifestyle medicine is a nice theme, but you immerse yourself with research in the area, not with activities. Tennis is nice, but it is still considered a rather privileged activity. In what ways are you stretching beyond your comfort zone? It doesn't seem like you have done much of that.