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Hey guys,
I'm pretty new to online forums and feel like a floundering fish looking at medical school lists. My prehealth advisor is also super swamped as many many advisors left recently, so I haven't heard back and I can't schedule a meeting.
Concerned: my "Reach" is too high? any bad reputation schools? any schools that low-key require more volunteering?
Undergrad: 3.857 (sGPA) and 3.91 (cGPA) ; honors student, summa cum laude
AMCAS: 3.83 (sGPA) and 3.89 (cGPA)
MCAT: 509
Background:
NJ resident, URIM (Afro- and Indo-Caribbean, identifies as mixed or black)
Underserved (first-born in US, parents were VERY young, not much money, father was first in family to go to college, helped mother through online college throughout high school)
Hours:
3000+ research
3000+ clinical hours
~100 shadowing
300+ leadership
~100 volunteer
400-500 tutoring/TA hours
one journal publication (writing case study for first authorship, pending review on 2nd or 3rd author on someone else's dissertation)
**I have had 2 full-time clinical research coordinator positions. i put one as research and one as clinical based on job responsibilities
(administered EKGs, vitals, assisted in biopsies, ran fMRIs, etc on top of patient recruiting, tracking, etc)
Personal:
Much of my work is targeted towards underrepresented children tutoring, researching clinical treatments of diseases/disorders affecting underrepresented adults, and increasing diversity-related programming to help POC underrepresented in STEM gain support and networking/career opportunities
My potentials list based solely on MCAT percentile
If anyone responds, thank you so much in advance
Hey guys,
I'm pretty new to online forums and feel like a floundering fish looking at medical school lists. My prehealth advisor is also super swamped as many many advisors left recently, so I haven't heard back and I can't schedule a meeting.
Concerned: my "Reach" is too high? any bad reputation schools? any schools that low-key require more volunteering?
Undergrad: 3.857 (sGPA) and 3.91 (cGPA) ; honors student, summa cum laude
AMCAS: 3.83 (sGPA) and 3.89 (cGPA)
MCAT: 509
Background:
NJ resident, URIM (Afro- and Indo-Caribbean, identifies as mixed or black)
Underserved (first-born in US, parents were VERY young, not much money, father was first in family to go to college, helped mother through online college throughout high school)
Hours:
3000+ research
3000+ clinical hours
~100 shadowing
300+ leadership
~100 volunteer
400-500 tutoring/TA hours
one journal publication (writing case study for first authorship, pending review on 2nd or 3rd author on someone else's dissertation)
**I have had 2 full-time clinical research coordinator positions. i put one as research and one as clinical based on job responsibilities
(administered EKGs, vitals, assisted in biopsies, ran fMRIs, etc on top of patient recruiting, tracking, etc)
Personal:
Much of my work is targeted towards underrepresented children tutoring, researching clinical treatments of diseases/disorders affecting underrepresented adults, and increasing diversity-related programming to help POC underrepresented in STEM gain support and networking/career opportunities
My potentials list based solely on MCAT percentile
- Match/Not Reach? I hope?
- All NJ schools
- EVMS (25th)
- Temple (25th)
- Drexel (25th matriculated)
- Vermont (25th OOS, but matriculated 50th is 510)
- U Wisconsin (above 25th matriculated, 25th OOS is 510)
- Penn State (50th matriculated is 510)
- Albany (25th OOS and matriculated)
- Reaches 🙂?
- NYMC (between 10th and 25th)
- Georgetown (25th matriculated, but between 10th and 25th OOS)
- George Washington (25th matriculated, but between 10th and 25th OOS)
- U Maryland (25th matriculated is 510, 10th OOS is 507)
- Tufts (10th)
- Thomas Jefferson (10th)
- Rochester (10th matriculated)
- Virginia (25th matriculated, 10th OOS)
- Rosalind Franklin (25th matriculated, but between 10th and 25th OOS) bad rep?
- Super mega reach
- Emory or brown or case western (from a recruitment email from the diversity department, yolo) I mean, ya gotta at least say ya tried at least one crazy money shot
- Case Western sent a diversity recruitment email to "invite me to apply"??? I'm assuming this is sent to everyone URIM though...
If anyone responds, thank you so much in advance
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