WAMC for T20/Should I add more schools: ORM/522/3.94

[themandulorian]

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1. cGPA: 3.94 sGPA: 3.94. If it matters, I'm a ChemE.
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 522 (131/130/131/130)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): OH
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Indian Male
5. Undergraduate institution or category: T20 in Northeast
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 300 hours as a campus EMT-B (volunteer).
7. Research experience and productivity: 600 hours in a cell bio lab across 3 years. No publications or posters.
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 50 hours, about a 50/50 between family medicine (hospital) and dermatology (private practice).
9. Non-clinical volunteering: A lot of tutoring (peers, local K-12 students, disadvantaged high schoolers)--about 200 hours total. 50 hours at a food pantry (this started in May this year though).
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): Education nonprofit (work with local high schoolers), 500 hours. A couple of miscellaneous jobs over the years in college (all of them somehow related to school, e.g. tour guide, tutoring, class grader, not service jobs), 1000 hours. A couple of clubs on campus, some leadership positions among them (although, as club leadership positions, I'm hesitant to call them real leadership positions). Working at a medical device company this summer in manufacturing, 480 hours total (in progress, about 400 hours done so far).
11. Relevant honors or awards: Dean's list I guess

I've already submitted AMCAS (verified primary, currently buried shoulder-deep in secondaries), but as I've been reading more about various schools' admissions profiles, I'm getting more anxious about my chances of actually getting in, and so I wanted to get some extra opinions on my chances for the schools I applied to and to see if I should apply to more schools. I'm really looking for schools that will be at least somewhat affordable, whether by financial aid or just generous cost policies (here's looking at you NYU). Currently a rising senior, so I'm applying to go right out of UG without any gap years. Kind of worried about the lack of research productivity, I can talk about the projects but the fact that there's no objective proof worries me (got a LoR from PI though). Possibly of note, I grew up low-income, but in the middle of high school my parents were able to get much better-paying jobs, so we've been solidly middle class since then, and I've had a lot of trouble verbalizing how this has affected me so I don't know if this even matters at all. I also feel as if essays and LoR will be par for the course (not bad, but also not announcing the second coming of Medical Christ). Thank you in advance for the advice!!!

School List:
Carle
Case Western
Cincinnati
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
Emory
Harvard
Hopkins
Kaiser
Mayo
Michigan
NYU
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn
Stanford
UChicago
USC
Vandy
Virginia
WashU
Yale

 

[Faha]

Did your campus EMT-B activity only involve calls to students on campus ?

 

[themandulorian]

Did your campus EMT-B activity only involve calls to students on campus ?

Anyone on campus, not necessarily students. Of course, due to the nature of being on a college campus, most calls were from students or faculty.

 

[Faha]

Your only weakness is your lack of clinical experience outside of your campus. You should receive interviews from your state schools and schools that value high stats (Washington University). Carle is looking for applicants with an engineering background. You could add schools such as Hofstra, Einstein, Mount Sinai.

 

[themandulorian]

Thank you for the input! Are there any schools that I shouldn't submit secondaries for due to that limitation of my experience? Also, we did spend some time in ambulances/hospitals as part of the EMT training, if that makes a difference at all.

Also, I may be misunderstanding your comment about Carle, so just to clarify--I'm a ChemE major and interning in engineering this summer, so I should be fine for Carle, right?

 

[Faha]

Thank you for the input! Are there any schools that I shouldn't submit secondaries for due to that limitation of my experience? Also, we did spend some time in ambulances/hospitals as part of the EMT training, if that makes a difference at all.

Also, I may be misunderstanding your comment about Carle, so just to clarify--I'm a ChemE major and interning in engineering this summer, so I should be fine for Carle, right?

You are fine with Carle with your engineering major. You should submit your secondaries to all schools but you are competing against applicants who may have hundreds or thousands of hours of clinical experience with patients who are sick, injured or dying. Your high stats will help though.