WAMC School List - 3.67/517

[MightbeCooked]

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Currently in my second gap year, and was wondering if it was worth applying this cycle or if I needed to take another year to possibly retake the MCAT or do more volunteering for a chance at t20-t40 schools.

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.67
3.3 (High School) --> 3.71 Freshman Year --> 3.86 Sophomore --> 3.31 Junior --> 3.91 Senior

2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts: 517 (128/128/129/132)

3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): CT

4. Ethnicity and/or race: White

5. Undergraduate institution or category: NESCAC

6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
2,000+ hours EMT
100 hours ER Scribe (Plan to split 50 more to shadowing)

7. Research experience and productivity
4,000 Hours - Work in a surgical setting with research teams in a more clinical role, no pubs. Not sure how to classify this.

8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
50 hours shadowing ER (from Scribing)
Working on getting more currently.

9. Non-clinical volunteering

20 Hours - Immigrant Health Checkup
100 Hours - Mentoring Local High School Students
20 Hours - Dance Teacher
Hoping on getting this better with more experiences.

10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)

D3 Athletics - 2000+ hours over 4 years, not captain.
Dance Team - 200 hours over 2 years.

11. Extra Info:
Junior year I began to travel with the football team, as well as worked 16-24 hours a week on the ambulance to help support myself and lessen the burden on my family for school while taking my upper level classes, which led to the GPA noted. Senior year able to figure it out and do all of this while keeping the GPA up.

Need Help on a list please, and advice for what to do from here to improve shots at higher tier schools. Thank you for your time.

Current School List:

Ultra Reach:
HMS
UCSF
UMich

Reach:

BU
Dartmouth
Tufts
Emory
Case
Pitt
Einstein
UConn
Brown
Hofstra
Rutgers (Both)
Cincinatti

Target:
EVMS
Quinnipiac
Loyal
St. Louis
Georgetown
Temple
UVM
Jefferson
Wake
Rosalind
OUWB

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

Let go of your ultra-reaches. Without knowing much more about your application, your stated WAMC profile is not close to the average applicant profile for these schools.

As stated, your research isn't research. You're either employed or volunteering in a research setting/project it seems. What "productivity" do you have after 4000 hours because what you disclosed says "nothing."

Otherwise, your clinical experience is focused on ER. That's great, but there's more to medicine than ER or surgery. I need to see that.

Retaking a 517 MCAT is folly unless the score expires at the end of the calendar year.

Do some networking. Attend the Virtual School Fair coming up. Get some actionable advice; I think you need to improve your community service, but after two years, you should have acquired about 1000 hours in food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, legal support, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. You need to concern yourself about getting in to an MD or DO program, not a "mid-tier" school.

 

[Faha]

You should accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering such as food bank, homeless shelter, etc. before you submit your application.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
UConn
Quinnipiac
Yale
Vermont
Dartmouth
Brown
Boston University
Tufts
UMass
Albany
Rochester
New York Medical College
Hofstra
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
Hackensack
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Emory
Wake Forest
USF Morsani
Miami
Tulane
TCU
Rosalind Franklin
Northwestern
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont