BumpSetSpike
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Hi all,
I would love some feedback on my school list and realistic perspectives about my application. Good luck to all of y'all 😀
Stats/General Info
I would love some feedback on my school list and realistic perspectives about my application. Good luck to all of y'all 😀
Stats/General Info
- ORM, Immigrant
- State: CA
- School: T40, Public
- Major: Biology related
- cGPA: 3.86
- sGPA: 3.84
- MCAT: 513 (130/125/128/130) to 522+
- Research: 4300 Hours
- 1600+ undergrad clinical research hours with one 2nd-author pub in a high-level journal, 1 presentation that I did myself, and 1 project was noted as a presentation in a journal
- I was also part of the leadership team (I handled the training materials and curriculum for new interns) and a mentor to multiple interns
- 2700 hours as a CRC at a well-known research institution
- 1600+ undergrad clinical research hours with one 2nd-author pub in a high-level journal, 1 presentation that I did myself, and 1 project was noted as a presentation in a journal
- Paid Clinical: 350 hours as a CRC at a well-known research institution (I plan on splitting the job into two entries in W&A since a majority of the time was research but the patient-facing tasks constitute the majority of my clinical experience)
- Unpaid Clinical: 30 hours at a volunteer clinic for uninsured patients
- Non-Clinical Volunteer: 160 hours
- 80-90 hours organizing a career development conference for college students from an underserved demographic as a committee head
- 10 hours helping with a fundraiser for a natural disaster
- 4 hours organizing and participating in an event putting together care packages for veterans
- 60 hours organizing and being a group leader in a career development conference for students from local underserved high schools
- Student Leadership: 140 hours as a board member of a professional student organization
- Paid Non-Clinical: 950 hours as a peer advisor (academic planning, pointing students to research/career opportunities, etc.)
- I absolutely adored my time here, wrote about it in my PS, and listed it as one of my three most meaningful experiences!
- LOR from here
- Shadowing: 50 hours, the vast majority of which was virtual (about 5 hours in-person)
- Hobby: Way too many hours in a sport (no D1, club, or anything like that) that has played a massive role in my life especially post-grad. If I have space I'll also include music composition.
- I am confident in my LORs; my STEM professor one is probably the weakest but I wouldn't say it is weak. I'd say they're at least a good 7.5/10 in how "glowing" they would portray me as on average
- I would say I'm a pretty good writer, so at the very least I would bet on my writing not hindering me at all
- I based my school list of of the WARS by calculating my stats, taking myself down 1 tier to account for how much more competitive it's gotten since that system was made, and using the schools each category to the best of my estimation. This means that the list might be top heavy. If you think so, please suggest a school you'd recommend I apply to and why!
- Columbia
- Duke
- U Penn
- NYU
- Yale
- Stanford
- UCSF
- Einstein
- Vanderbilt
- Cornell
- Wash U
- JHU
- Northwestern
- Chicago
- Emory
- Pitt
- Mt. Sinai
- Case Western
- UCLA
- UCSD
- USF
- U Miami
- U Colorado
- Cincinatti
- Rochester
- Dartmouth
- UCI
- Kaiser Permanente
- USC
- U Virginia
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