WAMC/School List (3.84, 517, CA ORM)

[astressedmess]

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AMCAS
cGPA: 3.8X
sGPA: 3.7X

MCAT: 517 (128, 130, 130, 129)

California resident

Asian (ORM)

Attended UC

Clinical experience:
- Medical scribe: ~1000 hours over 3 months
- Clinical volunteering: 150 hours

Research Experience:
- Wet lab: ~2000 hours has recently submitted an abstract where I am a first author, and if accepted, I will present at a conference.
- Review: Wrote and published a review paper in an undergraduate journal
- Undergraduate research presentation: Presented research at a poster symposium.
- Internship: I am part of an internship where I read clinical trials, extract data and add to a database which will be published online.
- Will be traveling to Africa to perform mental health research which may be published.

Shadowing:
- 40 Hours

Non-clinical volunteering:
- Senior living center: 40 hours
- Food pantry: 50 hours

Leadership:
- Health Organization: Served as a co-chair for 2 committees.
- President of a health organization

Honors:
- Vice Provost Award of Excellence
- Dean's Honor List

Extras:
- Will be getting a MS in Chronic Disease Epidemiology during my gap year.
- 2nd time applying

School List So Far:

- In state:
-- UC Davis (Sister went to UC Davis for undergrad and NorCal resident)
-- UCLA
-- USC
-- Kaiser
-- Cal Northstate
-- Califonia University
-- UC Irvine
-- UC Riverside
-- UCSF
-- UCSD
-- Stanford

- Other schools I'm interested in:
- UMass Chan
- Yale
- Geisinger
- Stony Brook
- Rosalind Franklin
- Penn State
- Rutgers
- Drexel
- University of Rochester
- Tufts
- Temple
- Boston University
- Mount Sinai
- Harvard (reach)

I'm really hoping for help with the school list because I've come to the realization that I am actually very research-heavy compared to my service hours.

 

[Faha]

Stony Brook and Rutgers admit few non residents with no connection to the state. You could add these schools:
NOVA MD
USF Morsani
Miami
Belmont
TCU
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Wayne State
Oakland Beaumont
Wake Forest
Belmont
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Jefferson
Hackensack
Hofstra
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac

 

[legallyforgetful]

Bumping this up because I have similar stats! Would appreciate any suggestions. Also would like to know if these hours are a bit low in comparison to other candidates with similar scores as well.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Bumping this up because I have similar stats! Would appreciate any suggestions. Also would like to know if these hours are a bit low in comparison to other candidates with similar scores as well.

Where is your WAMC profile?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Non-clinical volunteering:
- Senior living center: 40 hours

Describe your responsibilities. Why is this nonclinical?

You need 150 hours at submission to avoid getting screened out at most schools.

 

[astressedmess]

Stony Brook and Rutgers admit few non residents with no connection to the state. You could add these schools:
NOVA MD
USF Morsani
Miami
Belmont
TCU
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Wayne State
Oakland Beaumont
Wake Forest
Belmont
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Jefferson
Hackensack
Hofstra
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac

Thank you so much! This is very helpful and I appreciate it!

 

[astressedmess]

Describe your responsibilities. Why is this nonclinical?

You need 150 hours at submission to avoid getting screened out at most schools.

Ok, good to know! I'm going to continue volunteering and try to hit 150 hours. I put it as nonclinical because I mostly served as a companion instead of providing actual care. Most of my time was spent escorting the residents around and talking with them.