WAMC No MCAT, just current scenario

[golfmedman]

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• Junior at T100 undergrad, Human Biology Major with a focus on Health and Disease
• College GPA at time of application is anywhere from 3.88 to 3.91 but 23 transfer credits from freshman and sophomore year of high school will make my AMCAS GPA anywhere from 3.64-3.66. ( I retook all of these classes when I found out it would affect my medical school application and got A's in all of them)
• I have not taken MCAT yet and I will take it in March. (Im so sorry I know this makes it very difficult to determine my chances)

Letters of recommendation

1. Vice Chief of Surgery at a local hospital
2. Professor and department chair of Orthopedic surgery at a T20 Medical Center
3. Transplant surgeon(research supervisor)
4. Medical ethics professor
5. Organic chemistry Professor
6. Physics Professor

Clinical work experience

1. Emergency department medical scribe (104 hours)

Nonclinical work experience

1. Golf course pro shop attendant(1000 hours)

Research

1. Liver and Hepatobiliary Transplant Surgery research at a T50 surgical Insitution

• First Author Publication
• Second Author Publication

Shadowing

• General surgery( 84 hours)
• Pediatrics(135 hours)
• Orthopedic Oncology surgery( 54 hours)

Non-Clinical Volunteering

1. Cytology histology lab volunteer( 32 hours)
2. Volunteer youth Golf instructor( 140 hours)
3. AHA CPR instructor (37 hours)

Clinical volunteering

1. Hospice volunteer( 200 hours)
2. Pediatric Child life volunteer( 400 hours)

Teaching/Leadership

1. Vice president of A certifications for First Responders club (177 hours)
2. Organic Chemistry UTIN (100 hours)

School list (not set in stone or official at all)

1. Indiana University School of Medicine
2. Medical College of Wisconsin
3. Loyola University Chicago
4. Rosalind Franklin University
5. Rush Medical College
6. University of Illinois College of medicine
7. Creighton University School of medicine
8. Tulane University
9. Quinnipac University
10. Central Michigan University
11. Michigan State College of medicine
12. University of Louisville
13. University of Kentucky
14. University of Arizona
15. Oregon Health Science University
16. Boston University
17. Dartmouth Geisel School of medicine
18. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
19. Thomas Jefferson
20. Rutgers New Jersey
21. University of California Davis School of medicine
22. Wright State School of medicine
23. SUNY Upstate
24. SUNY Downstate
25. UMass Chan School of Medicine
26. New York Medical College
27. Emory University
28. Georgetown University
29. Virginia Tech School of medicine
30. Western Michigan School of medicine

 

[Faha]

Where is your state of residence? You should accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering such as food bank, homeless shelter etc. Schools such as Rush and Loyola expect many hundreds of hours. Your current non clinical hours are not what medical schools are looking for.

 

[golfmedman]

My state of residence is Indiana. Thank you for the advice, I will definitely do that.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Pending your MCAT: If you are a lifelong Hoosier, your in-state options are your best ones. Once Xavier in Cincinnati (DO) goes online (this year or next year), I suggest adding them along with Marian. I would also consider the regional Michigan schools across the border, maybe Toledo.

Reiterating, mission fit dictates your success and your school list. I see zero hours of service orientation activities among your listed non-clinical activities (need more descriptions to change my mind). Cytology lab is research or science-adjacent. Golf instruction is arguably teaching expanding on one's hobbies. CPR instructor is teaching and a likely extension of your exposure to emergency and disaster medicine. Food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, legal support, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation: 150 hours minimum at submission, 250 minimum for "brand name" schools. As mentioned, Rush and the Catholic schools admit students with many more hours (at least 500, prefer 1000).

 

[golfmedman]

I had never thought of it this way! Thank you for the new perspective. I will start researching ways to get these service activities in the next few months before I apply and study for the MCAT.