WAMC/School list 3.82/509

[2naa]

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1. cGPA

• 3.82 cGPA (in gap year, 2024 grad, planning on applying 2025-2026 cycle)

2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown

• 509 (130 CP, 126 CARS, 127 BB, 126 PS)

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

• CA

4. Ethnicity and/or race

• ORM(Asian)

5. Undergraduate institution or category

• T30

6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)

• 3500 total hours
  • EMT - BLS/CCT (1500 paid hours)
  • ER tech at high volume Level II Trauma (2000 paid hours)
  • Baseball park EMT (50 paid hours)
  • Clinical Research Volunteer (30 hours)

7. Research experience and productivity

• 2000 total hours
  • 2000 volunteer hours (single biology lab, hopefully will yield 1 pub by app submit)

8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented

• 24 hours (Urology)

9. Non-clinical volunteering

• School volunteer for Title 1 schools (200 hours)
• Food bank volunteer (100 hours)

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

• Photography club leadership (100 hours)
• Staff photographer campus science magazine (20 hours)
• Photographer for premed club (20 hours)
• Grocery store cashier (200 hours)

11. Relevant honors or awards

12. Anything else not listed you think might be important

• Applying to all UC schools, strong ties to Northern California/Sacramento

 

[Faha]

Accumulate another 100+ hours at the Food Bank. You could add these schools to your application:
California University
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Hackensack
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Creighton
TCU
Ponce (St. Louis)
Belmont
Alice Walton
Roseman

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Getting another 25+ hours of shadowing in a different specialty or primary care would also help you get a broader picture of the diversity of medicine.

 

[2naa]

Getting another 25+ hours of shadowing in a different specialty or primary care would also help you get a broader picture of the diversity of medicine.

Would it be more beneficial for me to shadow primary care? I was planning/interested in shadowing a little IR.

 

[LunaOri]

Would it be more beneficial for me to shadow primary care? I was planning/interested in shadowing a little IR.

Primary care! Likelihood of becoming a primary care physician is orders of magnitude greater than the chances of becoming an interventional radiologist