WAMC/ OOS School List Help (3.78, 511, CA)

[lakers2020]

• State/Country of Residence: California
• Ties to other States/Regions: No
• URM? (Y/N): Y? (Half AA, half Filipino)
• Year in School: Graduated in 2020
• Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Biology
• Cumulative GPA: 3.78
• Science GPA: 3.76
• MCAT Score(s): 511

• Research Experience:
  • 20 hours for a short DNA barcoding experiment/ 80 hours of clinical research on Healthcare use in epilepsy patients
• Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.):
  • 1 poster for the DNA barcoding experiment (co-author)
  • 1 poster for the clinical research (first author)
• Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer):
  • 250 hours as hospital volunteer
  • 500 hours as a CNA in the PCU and occasionally floated to other parts of the hospital (current job; working 36 hours per week)
• Physician Shadowing:
  • 80 hours shadowing OBGYN
  • 160 hours shadowing internal medicine/family practice
• Non-Clinical Volunteering:
  • 70 hours mentoring middle school kids in an underserved area
  • 60 hours being a crisis counselor for families at death scenes
  • 40 hours mentoring other transfers at my university
• Other Extracurricular Activities:
  • Board member of club that connected underserved patients with free medical service
• Other Employment History:
  • Part-time at two fast food restaurants for about 1.5 years
• Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N)
  • My Uncle (immediate?)
• Specialty of Interest (if applicable):
  • Not concrete, but primary care has my interest
• Interest in Primary Care (Y/N):
  • Y
• Interest in Rural Health (Y/N):
  • N
• Medical School List:
  • California Schools (Some are reaches but I want to give all my state schools a shot)
    • The UC's (UCSF, UCSD, UCD, UCI, UCR) - missed 512 mcat requirement for UCLA
    • The HBCU's (Meharry, Howard, Morehouse, CDU)
    • USC Keck
    • Stanford
    • Kaiser
    • California University of Science and Medicine
    • Loma Linda
  • OOS
    • Washington St.

Clearly I need some help for out of state schools.
Also, a buddy of mine and I are going to start volunteering at a soup kitchen in DTLA for 5.5 hours every week. Should I include it in my application?

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[drstranger]

Washington state accepts very few Out of state applicants. I would suggest investing in MSAR for $20, it is worth it. Look at the schools that accept a good amount of out-of-state within your stats.
Here are a few I would apply to but again, invest in MSAR.
Einstein
Seton Hall
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Oakland Beaumont
Medical College Wisconsin
NOVA MD
Eastern Virginia
TCU-UNT
Creighton
St. Louis
Loyola

 

[mmchick]

You'll be fine, you could probably apply to most OOS schools with a few T20s (though for the latter, your MCAT and research hours are a tad low, so wouldn't recommend going heavy on these). Really will come down to where you would like to apply geographically/school type wise. Just to throw some out:

UVA
VCU
Penn State
Albany
NYU
BUSM
Tufts
Dartmouth
USC
Tulane
FSU
Northwestern
UChicago
Vanderbilt
Pitt
Emory
U Iowa

There's plenty more but I would invest in MSAR and start narrowing it down based on geographically where you'd like to go. Don't get too top heavy as I think those are still reaches for you, but add a few in there with reasonable mid range schools where your GPA ~75th and MCAT >50th. You'll be set.

 

[lakers2020]

Would love to have your school list help @Faha @Goro

 

[Faha]

Remove Washington State. For OOS schools I suggest these:
TCU-UNT
Creighton
St. Louis
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Emory
Miami
Georgetown
Jefferson
Drexel
Temple
George Washington
Hofstra
Einstein
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Seton Hall

 

[lakers2020]

Remove Washington State. For OOS schools I suggest these:
TCU-UNT
Creighton
St. Louis
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Emory
Miami
Georgetown
Jefferson
Drexel
Temple
George Washington
Hofstra
Einstein
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Seton Hall

Appreciate it

 

[Goro]

• State/Country of Residence: California
• Ties to other States/Regions: No
• URM? (Y/N): Y? (Half AA, half Filipino)
• Year in School: Graduated in 2020
• Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Biology
• Cumulative GPA: 3.78
• Science GPA: 3.76
• MCAT Score(s): 511

• Research Experience:
  • 20 hours for a short DNA barcoding experiment/ 80 hours of clinical research on Healthcare use in epilepsy patients
• Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.):
  • 1 poster for the DNA barcoding experiment (co-author)
  • 1 poster for the clinical research (first author)
• Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer):
  • 250 hours as hospital volunteer
  • 500 hours as a CNA in the PCU and occasionally floated to other parts of the hospital (current job; working 36 hours per week)
• Physician Shadowing:
  • 80 hours shadowing OBGYN
  • 160 hours shadowing internal medicine/family practice
• Non-Clinical Volunteering:
  • 70 hours mentoring middle school kids in an underserved area
  • 60 hours being a crisis counselor for families at death scenes
  • 40 hours mentoring other transfers at my university
• Other Extracurricular Activities:
  • Board member of club that connected underserved patients with free medical service
• Other Employment History:
  • Part-time at two fast food restaurants for about 1.5 years
• Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N)
  • My Uncle (immediate?)
• Specialty of Interest (if applicable):
  • Not concrete, but primary care has my interest
• Interest in Primary Care (Y/N):
  • Y
• Interest in Rural Health (Y/N):
  • N
• Medical School List:
  • California Schools (Some are reaches but I want to give all my state schools a shot)
    • The UC's (UCSF, UCSD, UCD, UCI, UCR) - missed 512 mcat requirement for UCLA
    • The HBCU's (Meharry, Howard, Morehouse, CDU)
    • USC Keck
    • Stanford
    • Kaiser
    • California University of Science and Medicine
    • Loma Linda
  • OOS
    • Washington St.

Clearly I need some help for out of state schools.
Also, a buddy of mine and I are going to start volunteering at a soup kitchen in DTLA for 5.5 hours every week. Should I include it in my application?

Delete Loma Linda unless you are SDA or extremely devout Christian.
Add IU, U WV and U Miami as they are AA-friendly. Delete UCR unless you're from the Inland Empire.
Fah's list should be added as well.