WAMC/School List: 3.98/517, MO Res, ORM

[STLtrojan]

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1. cGPA : 3.98 and sGPA : 4.00
2. MCAT 517 (131/127/130/129)
3. Residence: Missouri
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Asian Male ORM
5. Undergraduate college: Top 30 private college in CA
6. Clinical experience: 1000 paid hrs working as EMT at MO and CA; 1000 volunteer hours working at school EMT club (3 years by time of application)
7. Research experience and productivity: 600 hours, switched lab this year no publications so far
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 60 hours, including geriatric, anesthesiology, regenerative therapy.
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 300 Hrs: youth sports camp, sports program for special needs kids, cultural festival, soup kitchen, zoo
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): serving on the board of our college’s EMT club in charge of social media; Tutoring; TA for OChem and Spanish.
11. Relevant honors or awards: Dean’s list, half tuition scholarship.
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important: I have played soccer since I was very young (US soccer high school scholar All-American), enjoyed playing piano (Carnegie Hall Level 9), played percussion in band in high school, taught myself how to play guitar. I also enjoy cooking. These are things I do to relax.
13. LORs: I am thinking to ask my Physics professor (also my PI this year), Ochem professor (I am also working as learning assistant for her class this year), a doctor at home town that has known me for many years and let me shadow for 3 years. I will review the final school list and see if additional reference is needed.

Appreciate the read and ANY comments/suggestions welcome!
I have multiple midwestern MSs on the list, thinking they might favor students from the Midwest (will be closer to my support system also).

School List (very fluid at the moment):

MIZZOU
SLU
UMKC (not sure since they start school in January when I will still be in another school, anybody has any insights into this? I can graduate a semester early though)
Keck
UCSD
Arizona (Phoenix)
Colorado
Quinnipiac
Georgetown
U Miami
USF Morsani
Emory
Iowa
Carle Illinois
Rosalind
Loyola
Indiana
UMass
Wayne State
Western Michigan
Wake Forest
Creighton
Dartmouth
Hofstra
Icahn
Rochester
OSU
U Cincinnati
Drexel
Temple
Penn State
U Pitt
Brown
VCU
WVU
Vermont

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Not sure you meet Carle's requirements so check.

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[jvquarterback]

Could add Wash U. I had some classmates with your stats who made it in. Long time ago but they like locals.

 

[STLtrojan]

Not sure you meet Carle's requirements so check.

Q&A with Carle Illinois College of Medicine: Developing Innovation and Entrepreneurship as Health Professionals | SDN

In a previous article, I discussed the advantages engineering-trained applicants bring to the health professions. For this article, we asked the

www.studentdoctor.net

What is your purpose or mission as a doctor?

You were absolutely right that their requirements don't align with my profile—it may not be the best fit after all. Thank you for your insight! What do you think of the rest of my list? Should I consider adding more higher- or lower-tier schools?

As for my purpose as a doctor, I worked as an EMT last summer (part-time now), where I really enjoyed interacting with patients, learning their stories, and helping them find relief and treatment. Also, my volunteer work with a soup kitchen in California has deepened my understanding of the systemic challenges in providing better care for underrepresented communities.

 

[STLtrojan]

Could add Wash U. I had some classmates with your stats who made it in. Long time ago but they like locals.

I took the advice of someone to look only at schools with median MCAT scores within the range of +/-3 of my score, so I filtered out WashU. Not too sure if they like locals but based on their AAMC data there are not many matriculates that are from In State. Will add to list now. Thank you for the suggestion!