WAMC- Nontrad (ish) c3.7 / 511 help with school list & advice please!

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Hi, I'm a first time poster and happy to be here. I'm hoping to learn what schools I should include to my school list. I have a lower science gpa and didn't finish all the traditional pre-reqs. 26.

1. GPA c3.7 s3.5 graduated 2020
   1. Adhoc post-bac program, 4.0
2. MCAT: 511 (124, 130, 127, 130)
3. MN resident, strong ties to WI
4. ORM - white female
5. Big10 State School
6. Clinical experience
   1. 1000 hours as medical scribe in ER, level 1
   2. 1500 hours as a behavioral health technician in adult in-patient psychiatry, rural
   3. 3850 hours in primary care, work in integrated behavioral health at a native american fqhc, similar to social work (current FT job)
7. Research
   1. 250 hours in undergraduate research, not medically related, in the geography department
      1. Scholarship to do research through internship with my study abroad program (in Africa, to be general)
      2. research course for senior magna cum laude thesis
   2. Recent poster presentation at national conference related to social determinants of health (Do I need to calculate hours for this?) with abstract publication
   3. 30 hours - Volunteer research work for professor during 1 summer relating to food insecurity
8. No direct shadowing
   1. Considering pulling hours from scribing as I shadowed during my training period
   2. Feel like I have enough clinical experience, and I work as part of the patient’s care team in primary care, closely with physicians
   3. Thought about teleshadowing to increase hours?
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. 150 hrs tutoring
      1. 75 hrs tutoring English to refugees in a Balkan country
      2. 75 tutoring community college science courses to a new American student where English is a second language
   2. 160 hours
      1. House volunteer for asylum seekers in El Paso
         1. Managed and lived at the house of approximately 30-40 refugees
   3. Misc volunteering
      1. Food Shelf 25 hours (expect to continue in the next year)
      2. Homeless shelter 25 hours (expect to continue in the next year)
10. Extracurriculars
    1. Taught English as a second language in spain for 1 year
       1. Intermediate spanish, taking lessons again
    2. Union Leadership (80 hours)
       1. Orientation Leader & Steward
       2. Member of the bargaining team, successful new contract this year
    3. Leadership roles in 2 college organizations, one was more particularly meaningful to me (grassroots organizing)
    4. Assistant education facilitator in a project-based biology class for 1 year at a diverse high school in college
    5. Yoga - 200 YTT in college, although I do not teach
    6. Worked at a food nonprofit part-time (while scribing) after college for 1 year
       1. Meals for families, distributed through other non-profit centers
    7. Many service industry jobs in college
11. Relevant honors or awards-
    1. Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship
    2. International- undergraduate research scholarship
12. Of note
    1. Was not pre-med in undergrad, although I was a liberal arts biology major, public health minor
    2. After college, I became interested in clinical medicine, although I was not sure what path I wanted to take (PA vs MD), and decided on MD after working at fqhc
    3. LORs - do not have a science professor LOR
       1. thesis/ major advisor from undergraduate has a PhD in geography
       2. Current supervisor- licensed psychologist
       3. Medical director of the clinic I work at
    4. Particularly interested in MD/MPH path, most likely primary care

Schools I'm thinking about - University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Minnesota Twin Cities/ Duluth, University of Pittsburgh, Albany Medical College, University of Kansas, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, University of Vermont, University of North Dakota, University of Nevada - Reno, Oregon Health & Science

Other schools? Should I apply DO? Anything I should work on in the next few months before I apply? Looking for advice! Thank you in advance!!

 

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You can assign 50 hours of scribing to physician shadowing. I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Minnesota
U Wisconsin
North Dakota
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Creighton
TCU
Roseman
Alice Walton
Belmont
Tulane
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Methodist (when it opens)
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Georgetown
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac

 

[midwestmidwest]

You can assign 50 hours of scribing to physician shadowing. I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Minnesota
U Wisconsin
North Dakota
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Creighton
TCU
Roseman
Alice Walton
Belmont
Tulane
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Methodist (when it opens)
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Georgetown
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac

Thank you, I appreciate it.