WAMC (Re-Applicant)

[decrepit2023]

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1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.92 cGPA, 3.87 sGPA
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts: 514 (127/127/128/132) in 2024-2025 cycle -> 521 (132/126/132/131) got results back a few weeks ago
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): TX
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Asian Male
5. Undergraduate institution or category: T20
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): scribing (650 hours), hospice volunteer (400 hours)
7. Research experience and productivity: 3000 hours (6 conference presentations with 4 first-author, 1 co-first author pub submission, 1 mid-author pub submission, 1 actual pub (as of last cycle), honors thesis)
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 200 hours (cardiology, internal medicine, neurology)
9. Non-clinical volunteering: suicide hotline (200 hours), sports coaching for free underserved (150 hours), nonprofit (500 hours), free standardized test tutoring for low-income (50 hours)
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc.): full-time research job, teaching assistant and other tutoring gigs (paid), resident advisor, multiple exec board positions, nonprofit co-founder, writer for health journal
11. Relevant honors or awards: magna cum laude, phi beta kappa, research awards, grant funding award for nonprofit
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important: currently waitlisted as baylor and long but I'm preparing for the worst, did not receive any other IIs this past cycle; added 300 hours of clinical exp., 1000+ of research (with extra pub submissions and 5 more conference presentations), more 400-500 more nonclinical volunteering hours, additional research and nonprofit awards; was the MCAT holding me back this past cycle?

School List: All TX MDs, Not sure if it's worth applying AMCAS since most Texans I know get destroyed OOS

Considering that Vanderbilt superscores the MCAT, is it worth applying there even with the Texan bias?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Previously,

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Thread 'WAMC - Potential Reapplicant'

Apr 6, 2025

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• decrepit2023
• Replies: 7
• Forum: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical

Great job with the MCAT! That should help with your in-states. Hopefully you notified Baylor and Long.

Could you highlight the new activities or updated hours since last time?

 

[decrepit2023]

I have notified Baylor and Long.

Clinical hours: I applied with about 700 originally

Nonclinical volunteering hours: Applied with 540 originally, but about 450 of them were arguably not true nonclinical volunteering in hindsight

Research: full-time gap year job and went from 1800ish hours to 3000+ -> previously applied with 1 publication, 3 abstracts, and an honors thesis

New activities: health journal writing, tutoring low-income kids, expanded a lot on NPO from previous cycle

Awards: added the research abstract awards and grant funding awards -> I already had the magna cum laude and phi beta kappa

Essays: last cycle they were completely rushed (wrote a rough draft on 5/12 and submitted 6 days later for PS, wrote diversity essay in 2 days, didn't do an essay,...)

 

[decrepit2023]

@Faha where would you recommend me applying? I know you have a lot of experience with school lists.

 

[Faha]

@Faha where would you recommend me applying? I know you have a lot of experience with school lists.

Apply to all your Texas TMDSAS MD and DO schools. You should receive more interviews with your MCAT of 521. You could try these AMCAS schools:
Washington University (in St. Louis)
Vanderbilt
Tulane
TCU
Einstein (free tuition)
NYU (free tuition)
Johns Hopkins (free tuition)