tl;dr: Searching for med schools, looking for suggestions based on my current resume.
Hello all, I am a pre-med student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am currently in my final semester of my undergrad, and I am hoping to begin medical school in August 2022 following a gap year. Recently, I have been browsing some medical schools and have found that it is a far more daunting task than searching for undergraduate schools. I am feeling some anxiety about my prospects of getting into med schools with my current resume, and I was hoping to get some guidance on where I should be looking for schools. A few parts of my resume are as follows:
GPA: 3.35
MCAT: 512-514 (Predicted based on average of practice exams) (To be taken on 4/23)
Research: 15 months Biomechanics lab, co-author of two papers
Work experience: Two separate ambulance companies, with experience in both emergency calls and nonemergent transports
Volunteering: 150 hours working as volunteer medical staff at university events, 30 hours working with small local homeless program
Leadership: Two Seasons as squad leader in collegiate marching band, two years as dance instructor and executive officer of small student organization, one year president of same org
Licensures: EMT-Basic
I am really concerned that my GPA will make many schools toss out my application and that it may have limited my options, but at this point there is little that I can do about that. I am hoping that having real patient contacts through my work experience will improve my chances, but I do not know to what degree.
Feel free to critique my resume, but what I am really hoping for are the tools with which I can search for med schools. I am also open to any direct suggestions.
If you took the time to read all of this, thank you!
Hello all, I am a pre-med student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am currently in my final semester of my undergrad, and I am hoping to begin medical school in August 2022 following a gap year. Recently, I have been browsing some medical schools and have found that it is a far more daunting task than searching for undergraduate schools. I am feeling some anxiety about my prospects of getting into med schools with my current resume, and I was hoping to get some guidance on where I should be looking for schools. A few parts of my resume are as follows:
GPA: 3.35
MCAT: 512-514 (Predicted based on average of practice exams) (To be taken on 4/23)
Research: 15 months Biomechanics lab, co-author of two papers
Work experience: Two separate ambulance companies, with experience in both emergency calls and nonemergent transports
Volunteering: 150 hours working as volunteer medical staff at university events, 30 hours working with small local homeless program
Leadership: Two Seasons as squad leader in collegiate marching band, two years as dance instructor and executive officer of small student organization, one year president of same org
Licensures: EMT-Basic
I am really concerned that my GPA will make many schools toss out my application and that it may have limited my options, but at this point there is little that I can do about that. I am hoping that having real patient contacts through my work experience will improve my chances, but I do not know to what degree.
Feel free to critique my resume, but what I am really hoping for are the tools with which I can search for med schools. I am also open to any direct suggestions.
If you took the time to read all of this, thank you!
