I want to go over my school application list. I'm still diving deeper into each school, but any help refining my list would be greatly appreciated! My wants in schools would combine some of these qualities listed. Planning to apply ~25 to 30 schools. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Requests:
Please let me know if there are any additions or ones I should take out.
Do you have any recommendations or schools to look out for based on wants in schools?
Do I have a balanced list of lower-yield and/or public schools compared to target schools?
Wants in schools:
- I'm more impartial about primary care vs. research-focused schools, though I would like to do research as a student. Leaning a little more toward research
- MBA program
- Global health opportunities
- Strong emphasis on humanities and multidisciplinary care
- P/F preclinical years
- Urban/suburban campus - diverse patient population
- Has teaching hospital
- Promotes wellness
- Has music conservatory nearby/music-related extracurriculars
Not wants in schools:
- Mandatory lectures
- California/states very north-east (above NY is more of a no no)
Background Information: * indicates ongoing activities
cGPA: 3.95 sGPA: 3.90
MCAT: 515 (128/128/129/130)
GA resident with family ties in AZ
ORM Asian F
T30 B.S. - Neuroscience and Music double major
Clinical Experience (Work):
School List
Requests:
Please let me know if there are any additions or ones I should take out.
Do you have any recommendations or schools to look out for based on wants in schools?
Do I have a balanced list of lower-yield and/or public schools compared to target schools?
Wants in schools:
- I'm more impartial about primary care vs. research-focused schools, though I would like to do research as a student. Leaning a little more toward research
- MBA program
- Global health opportunities
- Strong emphasis on humanities and multidisciplinary care
- P/F preclinical years
- Urban/suburban campus - diverse patient population
- Has teaching hospital
- Promotes wellness
- Has music conservatory nearby/music-related extracurriculars
Not wants in schools:
- Mandatory lectures
- California/states very north-east (above NY is more of a no no)
Background Information: * indicates ongoing activities
cGPA: 3.95 sGPA: 3.90
MCAT: 515 (128/128/129/130)
GA resident with family ties in AZ
ORM Asian F
T30 B.S. - Neuroscience and Music double major
Clinical Experience (Work):
- *Clinical Research Coordinator: 600 hours
- Heart valve replacement/repair clinical trials
- Responsible for consenting patients and being their main point of contact, conducting exams on patients such as neurological exams, coordinating with the clinical team and sponsor, conducting follow-up visits, tracking adverse events, data collection and entry
- Currently working out a potential case report
- Clinical Research Assistant: 200 hours
- Internal medicine site focused on trials in diabetes, weight management, cholesterol
- Called potential participants by reviewing their medical history, measured patient vitals and took EKG, did some internal patient data analysis for tracking purposes
- *Hospice Volunteer: 200 hours
- Cancer Institute Volunteer: 70 hours
- Member and Vice President of non-profit: 250 hours
- Helped reduce cost for student and local artists through fundraising and increase their audience by promoting their work
- *Meals on Wheels volunteer: 50 hours
- *Senior home volunteer: 100 hours
- 90 hours - rural family medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, urology, pediatrics, dermatology, anesthesia, oral and maxillofacial surgery, palliative medicine, internal medicine, interventional cardiology
- Lab assistant: 75 hours
- Optimizing MRI protocols, did perfusion surgery on mice, making a 3D printed mice cradle - mainly worked on a project finding new MRI imaging techniques for detecting Pompe's disease
- Music Thesis: 600 hours
- Independent research project on exploring piano music embodied as other mediums of art including visual art, dance, and opera
- Received university stipend award to attend music festival in Prague to further research
- *Co-founder/Advisor of prehealth music club: 50 hours
- Orientation Leader: 75 hours
- Principal keyboardist of the university symphony orchestra: 200 hours
- ESL English Tutor: 300 hours
- *Piano: >8000 hours
School List
- Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
- Emory
- University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix
- University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
- University of Pittsburgh
- Creighton University (including Phoenix campus)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (for their music and medicine initiative)
- Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
- New York Medical College
- University of Miami Leonard M. Miller
- Pennsylvania State University
- Tufts
- Albert Einstein
- Sidney Kimmel
- Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin
- Tulane
- University of Colorado
- Drexel
- University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan
- Eastern Virginia
- Albany Medical College
- Ohio State
- University of Cincinnati
- Geisinger
- George Washington
- Temple
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Oakland University William Beaumont
- Saint Louis University
- Virginia Commonwealth
- Wake Forest
- Western Michigan
- Case Western
