WAMC + School List (4.0/516 - CA ORM)

[Quokka-Lover-15]

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STATS:

cGPA/sGPA: 4.0
MCAT: 516 (129, 128, 131, 128)

DEMOGRAPHICS:
CA
ORM
T30
No Gap Years

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:
Hospice Volunteer - 100 Hours (At least 300 by matriculation)→ Assigned to care for three hospice residents. Helped with feeding, bathing and walking/daily activities
Hospital Volunteer - 300 Hours → Spent across multiple different floors, primarily assisting older patients with feeding and cleaning
Medical Scribe (Paid) - 150 Hours (At least 800 expected by matriculation) → Done at private practice GI Clinic

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
1100 Hours Wet Lab Research → 1 publication (Mid-author); 1 poster (First-author)
150 Hours Research Project with Physician I shadowed → 1 Second Author Paper + Poster at National Conference
400 Hours Research Project → AI/ML in healthcare research project (CS + Medicine dual research - Clinical and Dry Lab)

SHADOWING:
Primary Care - 15 Hours
Geriatric Medicine - 20 Hours
Ophthalmology - 15 Hours
Gastroenterology - 10 Hours

NON-CLINICAL VOLUNTEERING:
Local Food Bank - 200 Hours (500 expected by matriculation)--> Worked on farm and in distribution center; grew up in a rural city and ties in with food insecurity story from that region
Hospital Volunteer in Pathology Department - 200 Hours

LEADERSHIP/TUTORING:
Incoming Freshman Mentor (Program Coordinator) - 400 Hours (2.5 years)
Organic Chemistry Peer Tutor (Program Director) - 400 Hours (2 years)
CS/Medicine Club President + Non-profit founder - 800 Hours (3 years) → Developed an AI prototype passion project for older patients. Initially started as a campus club but converted to a non-profit as we expanded beyond our campus to other states.

RELEVANT HONORS/AWARDS:
Few competitive research grant awards given by school (combined $4000+ dollars)
Research excellence award x2

SUMMARY:
I'm a little concerned with my lower amounts of clinical and non-clinical impactful volunteering hours, especially since I only recently became a scribe. I think that the stories I have behind each of the activities is pretty meaningful so I am hoping that will partially make up for the lower amounts of hours on my application.

I know my application is research heavy, but my MCAT is on the lower end for most of the T20s so I'm a little unsure how to craft my school list. To give you an idea of my narrative, I want to go into an internal medicine speciality (most likely Neuro or GI) with an emphasis on geriatric medicine since I have found my clinical work with elderly patients the most meaningful. I know how to code and have built several AI/ML projects for individuals with cognitive impairments, including a funded research project I’ll be presenting as a poster soon. A huge part of why I want to become a physician is because it allows me to integrate these projects into real-life patient care settings in order to improve outcomes and accessibility. I’m not sure if this really counts as a “hook,” and I’d love some advice on whether I should make it a larger part of my primary application.

SCHOOL LIST (TENTATIVE):
Arizona
Arizona Phoenix
California
California Northstate
Kaiser Permanente-Tyson
Southern Cal-Keck
Stanford
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
UC San Diego
UC San Francisco
UCLA-Geffen
Quinnipiac-Netter
Yale
George Washington
Georgetown
Emory
Chicago Med Franklin
Chicago-Pritzker
Northwestern-Feinberg
Rush
Tulane
Mayo-Alix
Minnesota
Wayne State
Duke
Creighton
Wake Forest
Dartmouth-Geisel
Cornell-Weill
Einstein
Mount Sinai-Icahn
New York Medical
Rochester
SUNY Upstate-Norton --> Have family here
Zucker Hofstra Northwell

 

[Faha]

You have a good list and should receive several interviews. Remove UC Riverside unless you are from that region. Remove Rush since they expect many more clinical and non clinical volunteering than you have. You could add any of these schools:
Colorado
UMass
Tufts
Vermont
Jefferson
USF Morsani
St. Louis

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

Stats should get you to a lot of attention, but your story needs to fit mission. So far, I think you intend to leverage a rural mission but you wish to attend a top brand school. You must resolve this inconsistency as many brand-name schools won't consider you a strong fit unless you clarify your intention to immerse yourself in academic medicine (comp sci) en route to rural health. What resources and programs are you seeking? The UC schools and their PRIME programs will be very selective about your authenticity in pursuing their tracks.