WAMC Confused Canadian

[calculusisntfunstill]

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Hey guys I was wondering if you had any insight on my school list. I already posted on reddit but didn't get much feedback so I thought I would have better luck here.

I currently go to school in Canada. I am in my 3rd year of university currently however I am in my first year of a professional program. This means that I will technically not have a degree by my time of matriculation despite having finished four years of uni and I have kept this in mind while making my (limited) school list.

I applied to Canadian schools this year and got rejected everywhere so the plan is to reapply in Canada and the US.

Academics:
GPA is currently a 3.9 and might slightly go up this semester but nothing certain.
MCAT is 522: 132/129/130/131

Research:
I did some minimal research as a volunteer in a non-medically related lab for 30ish hours before the pandemic hit and everything got cancelled. I've been trying to find another research position but have had no luck.

Clinical Experience:
I've done some shadowing in a few different medical specialties in europe over the summer (60h)
I also volunteered at my local hospital for 100h.
I've worked at two different pharmacies for around 1500h at least by the time of application. A third of those hours was in a clinical role and another third was as a volunteer.

Non-clinical Volunteering:
I've done a good amount of tutoring for people in my program for 2 years as well (100+ hours)

Extracurriculars:
VP of two university clubs, one for my program's student association (~60h) and another one for raising money for a medical condition (~50h and ongoing).
I also played in a band for around a year with a bunch of performances (100h) and I've been in my city's orchestra for the past 4 years with a good amount of hours and a scholarship as well.

I am also going to be writing a book along with a professor about clinical pharmacy over the summer but that hasn't started yet.

My school list includes:
Yale
Tulane
Emory
University of Maryland
Medical College of Wisconsin
St Louis University
Washington University
Cornell
Virginia
West Virginia
MSUCOM

Does anyone have any schools to add or remove from this list or any other comments?

 

[Faha]

U Maryland and West Virginia are state public schools that admitted only 2 or 3 international applicants last year and Cornell admitted only 3.
You could add these MD schools:
Boston University
Dartmouth
Case Western
Georgetown
George Washington
Mount Sinai
Jefferson
Michigan State
Wayne State
New York Medical College
Virginia Commonwealth

 

[calculusisntfunstill]

U Maryland and West Virginia are state public schools that admitted only 2 or 3 international applicants last year and Cornell admitted only 3.
You could add these MD schools:
Boston University
Dartmouth
Case Western
Georgetown
George Washington
Mount Sinai
Jefferson
Michigan State
Wayne State
New York Medical College
Virginia Commonwealth

Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately some of these schools won't consider my application because I won't have bachelor's degree by next year (mount sinai, VCU) and boston requires me to be in the last year of my professional program to be able to apply. I did however send an email to a few of these other schools to see if they would accept my application!