Hi! I would like to get some advice on what my chances are with MD (hopefully) and DO schools for this upcoming 2021-2022 cycle as well as help with my current school list (please let me know if I posted this wrong or need to fix anything with my post).
cGPA: 3.57 (AMCAS and AACOMAS)
sGPA: 3.33 (AMCAS) and 3.40 (AACOMAS)
MCAT Score: 511 (128, 127, 129, 127)
State of Residence: VA
Ethnicity: South Asian, Female
Undergraduate Institution: Undergraduate was done in PA (class of 2020 – Molecular Biology Major)
Clinical Experience: 481 hours. This is broken down as 376 hours as a volunteer medical assistant for a private physician, 64 hours as a Patient Transport volunteer and Patient Art Activities volunteer at a MedStar hospital system, and 41 hours as a volunteer with VA Health Systems where I volunteered with Patient Advocacy. Currently working on trying to apply for more clinical hours to continue my hours.
Non-Clinical Experience: 170 hours. This is broken down as 152 hours volunteering with a dementia adult day center and 18 hours (as of now) as a mentor for underserved and low-income families. I am currently still volunteering with the same organization where I will begin SAT Tutoring. I have also started volunteering with another organization that provides hands-on interactive and educational art programs for children and adults living in community centers, group homes, permanent housing facilities, hospitals and more.
Shadowing: 210 hours. This is broken down to 46 hours within the NICU at a MedStar hospital system and 164 hours shadowing an Internal Medicine/Nephrology physician (I previously shadowed a Neurophysiologist in high school for 38 hours). I am continuing to shadow, all-be-it virtual through the HEAL Clinical Shadowing program.
Research Experience: I have been doing research since sophomore year of high school but unfortunately, that does not get included in the med school applications ☹. I have done research my spring semester of freshman year and fall semester of sophomore year within the medical school Department of Psychiatry at my undergraduate institution. I received a fellowship for my research my spring semester. Unfortunately, none of my research experiences resulted in a publication but I have presented at various school poster and research sessions. My freshman year, I was also part of the specialized research lab (SEA-PHAGES program).
Work Experience: I was an academic tutor with Varsity Tutors from 2017 – 2019 at which point I moved to my own private tutoring service that I continued from 2019-2020. I was an academic summer instructor for a well-known academic camp for summer of 2018 and an Antibody Engineering Research Intern with a Biotech company summer of 2019. After graduation, I began full-time employment as a Microbiologist within the phage therapy industry since June 2020.
Other extracurriculars: I was on a cultural non-competitive dance team my freshman year of undergraduate. My sophomore year, I was a TA for the SEA-PHAGES lab course and was on the Finance Board for the university TEDx Club. Throughout my four years of college, I was the cofounder and vice-president of a club sports team.
Relevant honors or awards: Research Fellowship for Fall 2017. Dean’s List entire college career other than Spring 2017 and Fall 2017 – graduated magna cum laude.
Anything else not listed you think might be important: Regarding my GPA, I had a pretty big dip my sophomore year that I attribute to organic chemistry but did bring it back up my junior and senior year. My GPA throughout the fours years was – 3.42, 3.31, 3.69, 3.90 (while my senior year gpa is high, I didn’t take a lot of science heavy courses while in my junior year, I took my higher-level sciences courses required for my major).
I’d appreciate any help on the current school list that I have tried to put together from reading other WAMC threads with similar stats (@Goro and @Faha, please would love your input as well) as well as any advice on my application itself. Thank you so much for all your help!
School List:
MD:
EVMS
Temple
Rosalind Franklin
Quinnipiac
Loyola
NYMC
Tulane
Albany
Penn State
Michigan State Univ.
Wright State
Univ. of Washington
VCU
NOVA MD
Drexel
TCU-UNT
Tufts
Hofstra
Creighton
Wake Forest
GWU
Rush
Western Michigan
Wayne State
MCW
Pitt
DO:
PCOM
A.T. Still Univ. (School of Osteopathic Med in AZ)
Kansas City Univ. COM
Univ. of New England COM
UNT-Health Science Center COM (Similar to TMDAS, do Texas DO schools have a separate application?)
Edward VCOM (prefer Blacksburg campus)
Lake Erie COM
West Virginia COM
cGPA: 3.57 (AMCAS and AACOMAS)
sGPA: 3.33 (AMCAS) and 3.40 (AACOMAS)
MCAT Score: 511 (128, 127, 129, 127)
State of Residence: VA
Ethnicity: South Asian, Female
Undergraduate Institution: Undergraduate was done in PA (class of 2020 – Molecular Biology Major)
Clinical Experience: 481 hours. This is broken down as 376 hours as a volunteer medical assistant for a private physician, 64 hours as a Patient Transport volunteer and Patient Art Activities volunteer at a MedStar hospital system, and 41 hours as a volunteer with VA Health Systems where I volunteered with Patient Advocacy. Currently working on trying to apply for more clinical hours to continue my hours.
Non-Clinical Experience: 170 hours. This is broken down as 152 hours volunteering with a dementia adult day center and 18 hours (as of now) as a mentor for underserved and low-income families. I am currently still volunteering with the same organization where I will begin SAT Tutoring. I have also started volunteering with another organization that provides hands-on interactive and educational art programs for children and adults living in community centers, group homes, permanent housing facilities, hospitals and more.
Shadowing: 210 hours. This is broken down to 46 hours within the NICU at a MedStar hospital system and 164 hours shadowing an Internal Medicine/Nephrology physician (I previously shadowed a Neurophysiologist in high school for 38 hours). I am continuing to shadow, all-be-it virtual through the HEAL Clinical Shadowing program.
Research Experience: I have been doing research since sophomore year of high school but unfortunately, that does not get included in the med school applications ☹. I have done research my spring semester of freshman year and fall semester of sophomore year within the medical school Department of Psychiatry at my undergraduate institution. I received a fellowship for my research my spring semester. Unfortunately, none of my research experiences resulted in a publication but I have presented at various school poster and research sessions. My freshman year, I was also part of the specialized research lab (SEA-PHAGES program).
Work Experience: I was an academic tutor with Varsity Tutors from 2017 – 2019 at which point I moved to my own private tutoring service that I continued from 2019-2020. I was an academic summer instructor for a well-known academic camp for summer of 2018 and an Antibody Engineering Research Intern with a Biotech company summer of 2019. After graduation, I began full-time employment as a Microbiologist within the phage therapy industry since June 2020.
Other extracurriculars: I was on a cultural non-competitive dance team my freshman year of undergraduate. My sophomore year, I was a TA for the SEA-PHAGES lab course and was on the Finance Board for the university TEDx Club. Throughout my four years of college, I was the cofounder and vice-president of a club sports team.
Relevant honors or awards: Research Fellowship for Fall 2017. Dean’s List entire college career other than Spring 2017 and Fall 2017 – graduated magna cum laude.
Anything else not listed you think might be important: Regarding my GPA, I had a pretty big dip my sophomore year that I attribute to organic chemistry but did bring it back up my junior and senior year. My GPA throughout the fours years was – 3.42, 3.31, 3.69, 3.90 (while my senior year gpa is high, I didn’t take a lot of science heavy courses while in my junior year, I took my higher-level sciences courses required for my major).
I’d appreciate any help on the current school list that I have tried to put together from reading other WAMC threads with similar stats (@Goro and @Faha, please would love your input as well) as well as any advice on my application itself. Thank you so much for all your help!
School List:
MD:
EVMS
Temple
Rosalind Franklin
Quinnipiac
Loyola
NYMC
Tulane
Albany
Penn State
Michigan State Univ.
Wright State
Univ. of Washington
VCU
NOVA MD
Drexel
TCU-UNT
Tufts
Hofstra
Creighton
Wake Forest
GWU
Rush
Western Michigan
Wayne State
MCW
Pitt
DO:
PCOM
A.T. Still Univ. (School of Osteopathic Med in AZ)
Kansas City Univ. COM
Univ. of New England COM
UNT-Health Science Center COM (Similar to TMDAS, do Texas DO schools have a separate application?)
Edward VCOM (prefer Blacksburg campus)
Lake Erie COM
West Virginia COM
