WAMC/School List - 3.8x/520 CA ORM

[aragorn0815]

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1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
   1. 3.89 both
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown
   1. 520 (130/130/132/128)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
   1. CA
4. Ethnicity and/or race
   1. Asian
5. Undergraduate institution or category
   1. Top 20 undergrad
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   1. 500 hours volunteering at a hospital
   2. Recently started scribe job 200 hours by primary submission, 2000+ by matriculation
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. 700 hours in biochemistry lab over 2 years, no pubs by application
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. Family medicine - 20 hours
   2. Rheumatology - 30 hours
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. 200 hours mentoring at risk high schoolers
   2. 200 hours coaching athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. Leadership positions in the above mentioned volunteering role and a cultural club on campus
    2. Club swim team
    3. 200 hours as an undergraduate learning assistant
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Nothing special besides Dean's list and Cum Laude
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important

School List:

• Kaiser
• USC
• UCI
• UCLA
• UCSF
• UCSD
• Rosalind Franklin
• Hofstra
• Drexel
• Emory
• Icahn
• Georgetown
• UNLV
• Temple
• Wisconsin
• St Louis
• Creighton
• Stony Brook
• BU
• Albany
• Geisinger
• George Washington
• Quinnipiac
• Oakland
• Thomas Jefferson
• Penn State
• Einstein
• Loyola
• Virginia Tech
• Wayne State
• Colorado
• Miami
• Case Western
• Tulane

Trying to apply to around 35 schools. Main concern is not having enough safety mid/low schools with standard ECs but nothing that would constitute an X factor. Would love any feedback on additions or removals.

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
Harvard
Dartmouth
Brown
Boston University
Tufts
Yale
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
NYU
Columbia
Cornell
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Jefferson
Case Western
Ohio State
Cincinnati
U Virginia
Duke
Emory
USF Morsani
Miami
Vanderbilt
Washington University (in St. Louis)
St. Louis
Northwestern
U Chicago
U Michigan
Western Michigan
Colorado
Mayo
Kaiser
USC Keck
The UCs

 

[chilly_md]

In case you think Faha’s list is top heavy due to your ECs, I want to say you have a good application. I think coaching athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities is admirable and something that interviewers will be interested in talking more about.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

In case you think Faha’s list is top heavy due to your ECs, I want to say you have a good application. I think coaching athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities is admirable and something that interviewers will be interested in talking more about.

Agreed. Which sports?

Are you taking a gap year in order to get so much more hours as a scribe? What specialties?

 

[aragorn0815]

In case you think Faha’s list is top heavy due to your ECs, I want to say you have a good application. I think coaching athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities is admirable and something that interviewers will be interested in talking more about.

Yeah, that is definitely one of my MMEs. I have just read too many stories of people who focus too much on reaches and end up having to reapply so I want all my bases covered.

Agreed. Which sports?

Are you taking a gap year in order to get so much more hours as a scribe? What specialties?

Basketball and soccer . I am taking a gap year and started working in an outpatient orthopedic clinic since I have a light course load before I graduate.

 

[aragorn0815]

If I do decide to apply to more, are there any from my original list I should remove?

 

[chilly_md]

If I do decide to apply to more, are there any from my original list I should remove?

Faha’s list provides about 38 schools. That is the max I would recommend applying as the secondaries will become a lot to handle past that.

Schools such as UNLV, Quinnipiac, Temple, and Rosalind Franklin are not a fit. The ones that are better fits already overlap on Faha’s list