MD WAMC GPA 3.82, MCAT 514 ORM

[tuscanstrawberry]

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1. cGPA: 3.82, sGPA: 3.80
2. 514 (129/124/130/131)
3. CA
4. ORM
5. top 20 undergrad
6. hospital volunteer (200 hours), health fair/clinic volunteer (200 hours).
7. 1 low level journal pub, several posters from lab (600 hours) and from clubs
8. 60 hours shadowing opthalmology
9. mentoring underresourced high school students (100 hours). 2 leadership positions in health fair clubs.
10. trad applicant, 60 hours undergrad ta.
11. a LOT of details have been omitted above for privacy purposes. for ASU/Carle/EnMed I have fulfilled the extra math course requirements, so that is not an issue.

Schools applied to:
ASU
BU
CUSM
Carle
CWRU
Columbia
Duke
Emory
Geisel
Icahn
Keck
OSU
Stanford
TAMU EnMed
Tufts
UCD
UCI
UCLA
UCSD
UCSF
CU Anschutz

 

[Faha]

You have many reaches that you applied to with a MCAT of 514. Some schools screen at 150 hours for non clinical volunteering (excluding mentoring/teaching).
I suggest adding these schools:
California Northstate
Roseman
Alice Walton
TCU
Belmont
Methodist
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Albany
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Unless you chose not to list your non-clinical service orientation hours, your application is likely to be screened out if you completely lack food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, legal support, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation work when you submitted. I need clarity how you have a research accomplishment from club membership. I also think you need more diversity in physician shadowing than 60 hours of ophthalmology.

I know you're not going to spill the tea on your academics, but I assume that if you fulfilled the math requirements, you are majoring in an engineering/quantitative area. Have you talked with their admissions teams before you submitted your AMCAS? What do your prehealth advisors think?

Honestly, the profile is rather sparse for a T20 undergrad applying to medical school. Being overly private makes the advice you receive much less than optimal. We know that applicants who have rely on a strong accountability network of advisors, peers, references, and champions tend to do better in getting accepted and thriving in professional school. Nothing described here gives me confidence you have such a support system. I see checked boxes, and not a person I'd want to have in my medical school.