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What does your 150 hours of non clinical volunteering involve ?

 

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Which URM community are you from? If you are Hispanic, are you fluent in Spanish?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Obviously you can't tell us what you are doing for your Fulbright here, but keep in mind the details you redact here are very important to your chances. Admission is not dependent on the transactional nature of experience hours without context.

To answer your question, an "X-factor" like a Fulbright doesn't supersede typical GPA/MCAT metrics, but we're missing our overall GPA trend (year by year) and can't see your transcript. If you are doing more teaching like your described non-clinical volunteering (afterschool program), you may not have enough service orientation activities. Teaching, tutoring, and mentoring are academic competencies that highlight your expertise as a learner. Service orientation activities include food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, legal services, transportation services, and housing rehabilitation; you should have 150 hours when you submit your application or you risk getting screened out at most schools.

Research is also a reflection of academic competency. But Fulbright research is very broad and could involve service. Without a full description, it's too hard to know whether this helps you as much as you think it would.

You also should apply to DO schools as your GPA/MCAT is competitive. They may be a bit more impressed with the "Fulbright," but service orientation is still important.

However, you are well-suited for research careers (PhD), and they will be impressed with your Fulbright (in all likelihood). Your above description doesn't give me an impression you are passionate about medicine due to your lack of details on your clinical experience. The transactional description tells me you're confirming a checklist of activities for a strong application, and your hours and accomplishments are more weighted to research milestones than serving your community.

 

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You should accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering (besides teaching) such as food bank, homeless shelter, etc. before you submit your application. Otherwise, you could be screened out at some schools. Many of the schools on your list are unrealistic with a MCAT of 509.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
All 4 SUNYs
Einstein
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Dartmouth
Brown
Tufts
UMass
Hackensack
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
George Washington
Georgetown
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
Miami
Belmont
Alice Walton
TCU
Creighton
Ponce (St. Louis)
Colorado
Arizona (Tucson and Phoenix)
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Roseman
Kaiser

 

[AJS59]

Hey Johnny from the MAYO here, can you go more in depth about the "niche hobby major" it would help johnny properly assess your resume,
i would say to get your hours up ASAP and shadow more often. but if you want my true advice i would say to extend the two gap years for about another 2-4 years and reapply then, I noticed you applied at Harvard as a "YOLO" I can have my friends at Harvard "YOLO" and take a look at your app. you may only lived once but you've messed up pretty bad in your life. your MCAT is most people baseline practice exam so i doubt you even studied and it shows that you really don't care much about your future and just hope to be a random pick in one of these cycles. I remember my first 509, senior year of highschool. had to take the practice exam as a punishment for losing in my fantasy cricket league. feel free to message me privately and I will help out more when I get the time off from all the work im doing at the MAYO

Smells like a troll

 

[Mr.Smile12]

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