WAMC/ help with school list 3.9/520

[dreambig2021]

• State/Country of Residence: WA
• Ties to other States/Regions: undergrad at T30 in LA
• URM? (Y/N): N
• Year in School: junior
• Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Bio
• Awards/honors/recognitions: various academic scholarships from USC, Dean's list, summer research scholarship
• Cumulative GPA: 3.9
• Science GPA: 3.85
• MCAT Score(s): 520
• Research Experience:
  • wet lab: ~1200 hours
  • narrative research (interviewing physicians/patients, etc)~500
• Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.):
  • 3 approved narrative medicine articles, pending publication on nonprofit website (not peer reviewed, so not sure if this counts).
  • Have abstract/thesis from applying for research funding.
• Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer):
  • paid: work as a MA for private clinic (500 now, will have ~1200 by matriculation)
  • volunteer: hospital volunteer, ~100 hrs now.
  • volunteer: free health clinic volunteer ~ 100
• Physician Shadowing: (50hr)
  • 15 h peds
  • 15h ortho
  • 20 hr pain and rehabilitation
  • also a lot of exposure to primary care from being an MA
• Non-Clinical Volunteering: I
  • teach health to underserved high schools ~300 hours
  • organize/fundraise book drives for local hospital ~ 100 hours
  • pen pal with seniors ~150hrs
• Other Extracurricular Activities:
  • vice president of book club on campus ~250 hrs
  • ochem tutor ~ 200 hrs
• Other Employment History:
  • Ochem TA: 200 hours
  • local coffeeshop barista (continuing from high school)
• hobbies: weightlifting, narrative medicine (pre-med advisor told me this is unique??)
• Letters of Rec: science professor (strong relationship), PI, and MD I work with as a MA,
• Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N
• Specialty of Interest (if applicable): surgery
• Medical School List: (i think this is top heavy)

Columbia, NYU, Duke, JHU, UW, Yale, WUSTL, UPitt, UMich, Icahn, Pritzker, Cornell, UCLA, Emory, Feinberg, CW, Keck, BU, Hofstra, Brown, Rochester, Geisel, Albert EInstein, Loyola, Tufts, UMiami, Tulane, Kaiser Permanente

I saved up some money from work and ideally want to apply to ~35 schools!

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[stinkycheeseperson]

you are boring but fine. if you have WA residency apply to the WWAMI school(s). brown doesn't accept anyone. check the oos for any state schools.