WAMC: ORM, 3.90, 525

[WAMC3367]

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Just want to see if admit.org is crazy or not for this school list.

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS

• 3.90 cGPA and 3.88 sGPA (current senior, planning on applying 2025 cycle)

2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown

• 525 (132 CP, 130 CARS, 131 BB, 132 PS)

3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)

• NC

4. Ethnicity and/or race

• ORM(Asian)

5. Undergraduate institution or category

• UNC, Biostatistics major

6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)

• 980 total hours
  • 930 paid clinical hours (EMT - a mix of transport and EMS)
  • 50 volunteer hours (EMT clinicals)

7. Research experience and productivity

• 1120 total hours
  • 460 hours (senior thesis - will also be published in a relevant journal)
  • 60 hours (systematic review scut work - no productivity)
  • 600 hours (computational lab that went nowhere - no productivity)

8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented

• 80 hours (gastroenterology, oncology, family medicine, nephrology, cardiology)

9. Non-clinical volunteering

• 450 hours total
  • Certified application counselor at a student-run clinic (250 hours)
  • Helped homeless members of the community reach their financial/housing goals (150 hours)
  • Miscellaneous volunteering through a pre-health organization (50 hours)

10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)

• Major student association leadership and departmental committee membership (250 hours)
• Student-run clinic leadership (150 hours)
• Plan for gap year is to either work as a research assistant or ED tech

11. Relevant honors or awards

• Phi Beta Kappa

12. Anything else not listed you think might be important

• Thread is using statistics to better lives, in most of my extracurriculars, and all where I had leadership positions, I used statistics to gain insights about or streamline the work. I also want to apply to some MD-PhD programs - I realize my research is nowhere near enough to probably even pass a screen, and I don't want to take more than one gap year, but I am still interested in knowing if some programs are more forgiving in that regard.

My current list from admit.org is as follows:

Reach

• Duke
• Harvard
• Hopkins
• UPenn
• Columbia
• Stanford
• UCSF
• Cornell
• NYU
• Yale
• WashU
• Mayo Clinic

Target

• UNC
• USF
• Dartmouth
• UTSW
• Northwestern
• UPitt
• Icahn
• Case Western
• UVA
• UChicago
• Emory
• UCLA
• UMich

Baseline

• ECU
• Iowa
• Hofstra
• USC
• Cincinnati
• Tufts
• Wake Forest
• Colorado
• BU
• Brown

I don't really agree with the phrasing admit.org uses and the distinction between classes seems fairly arbitrary, but that's why I made this WAMC anyway. I think this list feels way too top-heavy but before I dive into MSAR research I wanted to see what you guys thought I should add or remove from this school list.

 

[Faha]

You have a good list and should receive several interviews. Add Einstein (free tuition).

 

[Mr.Smile12]

While we don't run the admit site, I don't think you need to worry about the minutia. Treat it as a suggested guide; you bear responsibility to do homework on each program to make sure your missions resonate.

Clearly, your metrics will not prevent you from getting considered. Your experiences and mission will be important, and if you plan to apply in the top tier applicant pool, your experience hours should be comparable. IMO, keep building your clinical and community service experience hours, especially with your homeless advocacy (I'd try at least to match/exceed your 250 hours at the student-run clinic).

If you feel tingly about stats, read up on MPH curricula and opportunities at each of the schools. You may not necessarily want to do the MPH, but you need to make sure you can still feel excited about biostats and epidemiology as others feel about orthopedics.

 

[LeaveNoTrace]

Rock star here - top 20 pack fodder, probably towards the stronger end as those stats are well above average anywhere.