WAMC?? pls help

[2020_vision]

Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

White
Female
First-time applicant
3.78 cGPA
513 MCAT (130/127/128/128)

ECs:

• Research: 450 hours, throughout 3 years of undergrad
  • No publications but I might have one (not first author) by the fall
• Volunteering (clinical): 90 hours at two different hospitals
• Shadowing: 85 hours
  • Specialties represented: cardiology, neurology, hem/onc, peds, intensive care
• Leadership roles
  • Co-founder and VP of a volunteering club where we went to a children's hospital (2 semesters senior year)
  • Mentor for freshman engineering students as they worked on a semester-long conference project
  • Corresponding secretary for my school's chapter of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society (2 semesters senior year)
• Currently in my gap year, will be working as a medical scribe full-time for the year

Current school list:

Albany Med College

Carle Illinois

Creighton Univ

Cooper Med School

Dartmouth College Geisel Sch of Med

Drexel Univ

Eastern Virginia Med School

Emory University

Geisinger Commonwealth

George Washington Univ

Georgetown Univ

Medical Univ of South Carolina

New York Med College

Ohio State University

Pennsylvania State Univ

Quinnipiac Univ

Rutgers NJ Med School

Rutgers RWJ Med School

Temple Univ

Tufts Univ

Tulane Univ

Thomas Jefferson Univ

Univ of Maryland

Univ of Massachusetts

Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Univ of Pittsburgh

Univ of South Carolina Sch of Med

Univ of Toledo Coll of Med

Univ of Vermont Larner Coll of Med

Wake Forest School of Med

West VA Univ School of Med

Wright State Univ Boonshoft

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[candbgirl]

What is your state of residence? You have an awful lot of OOS public schools on your list. That might be a mistake since public schools often prefer their own residents. Did you use the MSAR to develop your list? Your clinical experience is below what is expected and you don’t mention nonclinical volunteering at all. You need at least 150 hours of service to the underserved in your community.

 

[2020_vision]

What is your state of residence? You have an awful lot of OOS public schools on your list. That might be a mistake since public schools often prefer their own residents. Did you use the MSAR to develop your list? Your clinical experience is below what is expected and you don’t mention nonclinical volunteering at all. You need at least 150 hours of service to the underserved in your community.

I live in New Jersey, so I included all of the New Jersey public schools. I did use MSAR for the out of state schools and tried to pick some schools that had a relatively high OOS %. Because I didn't decide until halfway through college that I wanted to pursue medicine and because I did research all throughout college, I struggled to incorporate non-clinical volunteering, and that is a big worry of mine right now.

 

[Faha]

Remove schools such as the South Carolina schools, Wright State, Toledo, North Carolina, UMass, Maryland, Ohio State since they accept few non residents with your stats and no connection to the state. Consider adding these schools instead
Seton Hall
NOVA MD
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Western Michigan
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin

 

[2020_vision]

Remove schools such as the South Carolina schools, Wright State, Toledo, North Carolina, UMass, Maryland, Ohio State since they accept few non residents with your stats and no connection to the state. Consider adding these schools instead
Seton Hall
NOVA MD
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Western Michigan
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin

Will do. Thank you for your feedback! I'll take a look into those schools.