WAMC: MI, 519, ORM (Potential Reapp)

[LGINGE]

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Application from this cycle: 3 invites, 2 waitlists and one decision pending.

1. cCGP 3.66; sGPA 3.73 (Took college courses in HS and was a knucklehead my freshman year - 4.0 from sophomore year on when 90% of sciences were taken)
2. MCAT 519, Summer 19', (127/131/129/132)
3. State: MI
4. ORM (White)
5. Non-competitive undergrad institution
6. Two years of college soccer (NAIA)
7. Non-clinical volunteering
-60 hours inner-city afterschool program
-100 hours summer art camp for underserved Latino youth
- 200 hours sexual education clinic volunteer in Nairobi, Kenya
8. Clinical volunteering
-110 hospital volunteer in downtown Flint.
9. Clinical hours
- 1000 ED scribe
10. Research
-450 undergrad research -> 1st author pub
-1100 at a perinatology lab isolating single cells from health/diseased placental tissue. Did some imaging and flow cy as well -> no pub.
11. Employment
- 500 hours Kaplan (MCAT instructor)
- 300 hours soccer coach
- 100 science tutor in undergrad
- 300 science TA in undergrad
- 100 hours academic coach in undergrad
12. Shadowing
- 30 Primary care
- 30 Allergist/Immunologist

I felt my essays and personal statement were strong and I had multiple eyes - including a family friend with an English masters look at PS.
I have very close relationships with all my letter writers - get Christmas cards, am at their houses for dinners regularly and know the intimate details of their lives. Not to be a self-obsessed ass, but I have been constantly told my entire life I am 'so warm and personable' so I doubt I just was an asocial creep in my interviews. I definitely struggled with some questions, but I thought I gave as good a picture of my virtual self as I could.

Applied to: (Also, yes - I know I applied too high)
Wayne
MSU (MD)
UofM
Oakland
Cinci
UCSD
UCLA
UCSF
USC
Stanford
Geisel
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Cornell
Colorado
Miami Miller
Brown
Upenn
Vandy
Northwestern
Uchicago
Oregon
Icahn
Mayo
Boston
Pitt

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Since submitting I have accumulated
-200 more Kaplan hours
-300 hours scribing in Onc
-400 hours as adjunct faculty @ alma mater teaching A&P labs
-Got a job scribing for an ENT last week (oncologist moved away three weeks ago).
-Starting to volunteer where I did the Latino art camp this week.


Any advice is greatly appreciated. Besides applying lower and applying DO I do not know what to do. I feel like I must be missing something. Really hoping I get that voluptuous A in a few weeks, but if not I gotta start mentally preparing for a second **** show. Send me your wisdom SDN geniuses. Thanks in advance!!

 

[spottedcory]

Yeah I think it's just your school list. You don't fit Oregon's in mission group so probably weren't considered for admission. Only Miami, Cincy, Geisel, Michigan schools, and Brown (who favors own undergrads) were schools that weren't low yield or T20. I think you'd be fine applying MD if you applied maybe more around your geographic area (Case, OSU), more midtiers. Your application is killer though, hopefully those 3 schools pull through!

 

[LGINGE]

Yeah I think it's just your school list. You don't fit Oregon's in mission group so probably weren't considered for admission. Only Miami, Cincy, Geisel, Michigan schools, and Brown (who favors own undergrads) were schools that weren't low yield or T20. I think you'd be fine applying MD if you applied maybe more around your geographic area (Case, OSU), more midtiers. Your application is killer though, hopefully those 3 schools pull through!

Thank you for the reply! I definitely bit off my than I could handle with the top 20s and low yields I sought out this cycle. I will definitely be applying to more mid tiers if I have to hop back in the chaos for another round of apps.