MD WAMC / school list: 3.8/523

[synapsis123]

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Hi all, looking for advice in building a school list and general advice about what to expect in the application cycle. Any advice on how to improve my application during gap year would also be much appreciated. Thank you and have a nice day.

1. cGPA: 3.82 sGPA: 3.80
2. MCAT
   1. 523 (131/128/132/132)
3. State of residence:
   1. Midwest
4. Ethnicity and/or race:
   1. ORM
5. Undergraduate institution or category:
   1. Transfer from state university to T5 Ivy after 1 yr, Senior
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
   1. Rounding volunteer in hospital, just started but ended due to covid-19, hoping to continue in gap year
   2. 60 hrs as volunteer helping register homeless individuals for free government services
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. 500+ hrs, 1 publication, 1 poster, summer research scholarship, working in research in gap year
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. Total 80+, cardiology, pediatrics, cardiothoracic surgeon, nephrology
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. 120+ hrs in student residence volunteering program
   2. 100+ hrs in soup kitchen
   3. 100 hrs grassroots organizing program intern
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. TA for multiple economics classes
    2. RA ( resident advisor) for 3 years
    3. other small clubs
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Dean's List every semester, small scholarships
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important

I don't really know how to gauge what type of applicant I am and what schools I should be applying to besides my state school(s) and home institution. Any advice there? Also I know I am lacking clinical volunteering which I hope to gain during my gap year, but I don't know if it will appear on my application I suppose. Currently volunteering at local food bank.

 

[Faha]

Where is your state of residence ? The volunteering experience registering homeless does not appear to be a clinical experience. How many hours do you have in the hospital ?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

No primary care shadowing? What did you do with your "clinical volunteering"?

 

[synapsis123]

@Faha WI/IL. Around 40, worked 4 hrs a week and would like to continue that in gap year.
@Mr.Smile12 Not someone who is solely a PCP, but I have shadowed doctors working in that capacity. In my clinical volunteering at the hospital typical rounding volunteer activities such as greeting patients and fulfilling small requests, and I think the second activity I listed there may not be clinical, my bad.

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
Washington University
Northwestern
U Chicago
U Wisconsin
U Illinois
Iowa
Western Michigan
Boston University
Tufts
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
NYU
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Case Western
Cincinnati
Ohio State
U Michigan
UVA
Duke
Vanderbilt
Emory
USF Morsani
Miami
USC Keck
Kaiser