WAMC? High GPA, low volunteer, and question.

[pacersfan604]

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Haven't solidified my school list yet. Feel like my volunteering hours are too low. Advice and honesty appreciated!

Date of submission: Aiming for end of June
Overall GPA: 4.00
Science GPA: 4.00
Bio-Chem-Physics GPA: 4.00
DAT score (include AA and all sections): 23AA 24PAT 22TS (23Bio 23GC 21OC) 19RC 27QR
State of Residence: Indiana

Undergrad Attended: Private midwestern school with dental school
Major: Spanish and Chemistry
Minor: Biology
Minority? No, Asian male
Reapplicant? No
Nontrad? No

Shadowing Experience: General dentist 1 (144 unpaid shadowing and 78 paid working) and general dentist 2 (64 unpaid shadowing)
Volunteering Experience: Hospital (33), food bank 1 (12), food bank 2 (12), medical nonprofit (10)
Employment: Dental lab tech (440), office assistant at dental school for my undergraduate school (300), dental assistant (78), and restaurant busser (230)
Research: ~800? 1 publication
Other Extracurriculars: DIII athletics (1275) and professional fraternity (480)
Relevant Honors or Awards: summa cum laude, dean's list (7x), 2 academic honors from school, athletic academic recognition from conference (5x), athletic academic recognition from school (2x)
LOR type and strength: Committee letter-->
STEM: PI (probably strong) and Orgo professor (?, did well in class)
Non-STEM: Spanish professor (probably strong)
Other: 2 dentists I shadowed (very strong)
Misc Info/Things not stated elsewhere/Red Flags: My school does pass/fail for study abroad grades and reported as pass in my transcript but reported transcript from study abroad school on AADSAS which shows the actual letter grades with a GPA of 3.194 which is a lot lower than my normal GPA.
School list:
Boston University
Case Western Reserve University
Columbia
Indiana
Maryland
Marquette
NYU
Temple
Tufts
UMich
UPenn
UPitt

Any schools I should add/remove?

Indiana does not allow online prerequisites but I took some; however, does not state such in transcript.
UMich requires sociology but I did not take. Can I not match a prerequisite?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

My school does pass/fail for study abroad grades and reported as pass in my transcript but reported transcript from study abroad school on AADSAS which shows the actual letter grades with a GPA of 3.194 which is a lot lower than my normal GPA.

Could you explain this again? You carry in a 4.0, so what exactly did you do in study abroad? Was that school accredited for US/Canada? Is it on this list?
Study Abroad or Overseas US Transcripts
If your full credits and/or grades for study abroad courses do not appear on your undergraduate transcript, you should report that you attended a foreign institution. You do not need to list your courses under foreign schools as we do not allow foreign coursework to be recorded. Do not send any documentation unless an evaluation is required by a program that you're applying to; check with your programs to determine if they require foreign evaluations.

Keep working on the experience hours for clinical and non-clinical/community service. I presume hand skills are not a problem to discuss.

Take off NYU for costs. Indiana is your in-state, so you should get some response from them. Otherwise, geographically, the list is reasonable. You could consider Louisville, Ohio State, and Kentucky.

 

[pacersfan604]

Could you explain this again? You carry in a 4.0, so what exactly did you do in study abroad? Was that school accredited for US/Canada? Is it on this list?
Study Abroad or Overseas US Transcripts
If your full credits and/or grades for study abroad courses do not appear on your undergraduate transcript, you should report that you attended a foreign institution. You do not need to list your courses under foreign schools as we do not allow foreign coursework to be recorded. Do not send any documentation unless an evaluation is required by a program that you're applying to; check with your programs to determine if they require foreign evaluations.

I studied with IES Abroad under the "Study Abroad at Another US Institute." For study abroad programs, my school does pass/fail on our transcripts instead of reporting the actual letter grade. Since I passed all the classes, it did not affect my GPA on my school transcript, maintaining a 4.0. But on the AADSAS application, it requires that I request the transcript directly from the study abroad program which shows the letter grades, not the pass/fail on my school transcript, hence the discrepancy.

 

[pacersfan604]

Could you explain this again? You carry in a 4.0, so what exactly did you do in study abroad? Was that school accredited for US/Canada? Is it on this list?
Study Abroad or Overseas US Transcripts
If your full credits and/or grades for study abroad courses do not appear on your undergraduate transcript, you should report that you attended a foreign institution. You do not need to list your courses under foreign schools as we do not allow foreign coursework to be recorded. Do not send any documentation unless an evaluation is required by a program that you're applying to; check with your programs to determine if they require foreign evaluations.

Keep working on the experience hours for clinical and non-clinical/community service. I presume hand skills are not a problem to discuss.

Take off NYU for costs. Indiana is your in-state, so you should get some response from them. Otherwise, geographically, the list is reasonable. You could consider Louisville, Ohio State, and Kentucky.

Also, do you think Louisville, Ohio State, and Kentucky are worth a shot for OOS?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Also, do you think Louisville, Ohio State, and Kentucky are worth a shot for OOS?

You have a 4.0 and super DAT range. They're in neighboring states to Indiana. I'd check the MSAR just in case. Certainly do it if you are interested in practicing within those states, of course. (You have Case on your list.) They all are used to athletes with strong metrics, I suspect. (Michigan too, but I don't know how to address the missing sociology prereq, but you have other schools that don't require it.)