WAMC ORM 522/3.45

[owlover13]

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High MCAT low GPA, I was set on applying this cycle but now that AMCAS is opening so soon I'm debating taking another gap year because I'm getting cold feet...

- 22M ORM (white) OH resident
- 522 (130/128/132/132)
- 3.45 cGPA 3.28 sGPA (AMCAS) - My grades were pretty bad (2.9-3.3) in the first year and a half. I took a quarter off for health problems (this is on my transcript) and after I came back everything is much better (3.9 avg for final year)
- T10 undergrad, 2 bachelor's degrees + combined master's in 4 years (engineering + humanities)
- Clinical: all volunteer but several different experiences, 340 hours
- Nonclinical volunteer: 210 hours, 2 experiences
- Nonclinical paid work: 800 hours
- Research:

- Basic science: 1400 hours - 1 poster, 1 oral (both internal)​

- Clinical research: 750 hours - 3 coauthor pubs accepted, 1 first author pub under review, 2 coauthor pub under review, 2 orals at national conferences, 1 poster at internal symposium (PS should I list stuff under review?)​

- Shadowing: 25 hours general surgery, 20 hours internal med
- 3 research grants, 1 award for best senior research
- Co-president of an engineering club
- Research peer mentor

I would think my narrative is cohesive. I have my statement and activities written and they still need some work but I think I know what I'm going for. The trouble is that my path to medicine was not super linear so my activities are not all super related, and I spent a lot of time during my undergrad thinking I would pursue a PhD and not MD.
I would like to apply to ~40 schools. My list so far is as follows, I have been procrastinating on this a lot and trying to be as realistic as possible:
Albany
ASU
Belmont
Boston
Brown
Carle Illinois
Case Western
Cinncinati
Dartmouth
Drexel
Hackensack
Hofstra
Indiana
Jefferson
MCW
NEOMED
NYMC
Ohio State
Pitt
Quinnipiac
Rochester
Toledo
Tufts
UIC
USC
USF
UVA
VTech
Wake Forest
Wayne State
Western Michigan
Wright State

 

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What is the breakdown by hours and activities of your clinical volunteering, non clinical volunteering and non clinical work?

 

[owlover13]

What is the breakdown by hours and activities of your clinical volunteering, non clinical volunteering and non clinical work?

Nonclinical work is 400 hours on campus job throughout college to help me pay bills, 400 hours engineering internship.
Clinical volunteering is 160 hours ED volunteering at 2 separate hospitals (not really that meaningful to me), 60 hours free mobile clinic (I started this year and really like it), 120 hours children's hospital activities volunteer (essentially playing with kids on the inpatient ward).
Nonclinical volunteering is 50 hours refugee ESL tutor, 160 hours harm reduction (I am really passionate about this one)