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deleted -- thanks all for advice

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Any service orientation activities (nor clinical) where you are helping those who are distressed that go out of your comfort zone? Clearly equestrian activities are in your comfort zone it appears. Fundraising and tutoring don't really count. You should have 150 hours at submission to avoid getting screened out at most schools.

 

[Faha]

You could add these schools to your application:
West Virginia
USF Morsani
Hofstra
Rochester
New York Medical College
George Washington
Your chances for interviews at top tier schools are limited due to your low non clinical volunteering hours and clinical hours. You should also accumulate another 25 hours of in person physician shadowing.

 

[xNinjaBurrito1]

You could add these schools to your application:
West Virginia
USF Morsani
Hofstra
Rochester
New York Medical College
George Washington
Your chances for interviews at top tier schools are limited due to your low non clinical volunteering hours and clinical hours. You should also accumulate another 25 hours of in person physician shadowing.

What would your recommendation be for clinical and non-clinical volunteering hours? I tend to see 150-300 hour minimums recommended around here

 

[Faha]

What would your recommendation be for clinical and non-clinical volunteering hours? I tend to see 150-300 hour minimums recommended around here

Minimum of 150 hours for clinical volunteering/employment with patient contact and 150+ hours for non clinical volunteering.

 

[HappyRabbit]

Here's a school list that contains some reaches that might not be possible because of the minimal nonclinical and likely lack of narrative (nonclinical forms the narrative really) but I have included them since they are possible and you have the capacity to to apply. Apply to the schools you want to attend in the reach/target category and apply to everything in baseline as your insurance policy.

Reach
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Duke University School of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine

Target
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
University of Arizona--Phoenix
Boston University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Baseline
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Western Michigan University
Nova Southeastern University (Patel)
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (Chicago)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Quinnipiac University
Tufts University School of Medicine
Seton Hall - Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
New York Medical College
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Schools love money so if you feel like you have enough to donate to them...

Keep in mind you will need more hours and significant impact for brand name schools. You are barely at threshold for some of the schools on the lists given to you. I suggest focusing on optimizing your application over trying to go for moonshots. They will come with a stronger profile.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

by optimizing my application, do you mean in regard to secondaries? i now have more volunteering plans for this semester, and i am looking into clinical jobs that would allow me to get more hours in (sadly unsure if i'll be physically able to return to my current one anytime soon). as for secondaries, however, i plan on prewriting all of them so as not to risk sacrificing quality.

i am mostly trying to assess how my list looks aside from the hyper-unrealistic schools -- i am okay with wasting my money (though i will probably end up removing some) but want to have a good amount of more realistic options 🙂

Check out COA and debt you would assume. One should not be so frivolous on financial matters, exorbitant if interest rates rise.

Remove any possible reasons to be screened out when your submit your application. This means before summer if you are applying this May/June. Even the most optimized applications can be ghosted for months.