WAMC/School list - 507 MCAT, 3.92 gpa

[ramazing]

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• cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
  • cGPA = 3.920
  • sGPA = 3.945
• MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts.
  • 1 attempt – 507: 128/123/127/129
• State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
  • Pennsylvania
• Ethnicity and/or race
  • 20 y/o Male, Asian - Indian
  • First-time applicant
• Undergraduate institution or category
  • Case Western Reserve University (Biology major w/ 2 minors in Chemistry & Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine)
  • Graduating in 3.5
• Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
  • ER volunteer (160 hours) - I played a more clinical role that a traditional ER volunteer as the hospital was severely understaffed
  • Hospice volunteer (70 hours)
  • Planning to work as an OCCA full-time in the summer
• Research experience and productivity
  • Around 200 hours, probably won’t get a publication, but will be completing my senior capstone/thesis through this lab
• Shadowing experience and specialties represented
  • 76 hours across cardiac surgery, pediatric orthopedic surgery, neuroradiology, family medicine, neurology, and OB/GYN
  • Will be getting more this summer
• Non-clinical volunteering
  • Volunteer online tutor (110 hours)
  • Paid online tutor and test reader (75 hours)
  • Founder of non-profit that helps underprivileged kids in India (300 hours)
• Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
  • Golf (300 hours)
  • Hobby - Chess (350 hours)
  • Hobby - Finance/credit cards (700 hours)
  • Founder of a non-profit org
  • President of volunteer tutoring org
• Relevant honors or awards
  • Group community service award for volunteer org
  • University scholarship
  • Dean’s high honors list
• List of Schools
  • Case Western Reserve University, University of Pittsburgh, OSU, Penn State, Drexel, UCF, Rutgers, Sidney Kimmel, Temple, Michigan State, Albany, West Virginia, Toledo, Loma Linda, Wake Forest, George Washington, Geisinger, Texas Tech, Georgetown, Tulane, University of Wisconsin, Rochester, VCU

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[Faha]

Your lack of non clinical volunteering (tutoring only and no in person activities) will limit your chances for interviews. You should accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering such as food bank, homeless shelter, etc. before you submit your application. You have several state public schools on your list that admit few non residents with a MCAT of 507 and no connection to the state. I suggest these schools if you obtain those 150 hours of non clinical volunteering:
Geisinger
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
West Virginia
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Wake Forest
Methodist (when it opens)
NOVA MD
Belmont
Alice Walton
TCU
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Roseman
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
Also apply to DO schools and I suggest these:
PCOM
LECOM
MU-COM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
WVSOM
UP-KYCOM
DMU-COM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
CUSOM
AZCOM

 

[Goro]

Let's see how my list compares with the wise Faha's: (note: your lack of in-person service to others less fortunate than yourself is going to be near lethal. Get outside of your comfort zone.)

Albany
Drexel
EVMS
GWU
Loma Linda (only if you are SDA or a very devout Christian)
Loyola
MCW
NEOMED
Netter
Oakland-B
Rosy Franklin
Rush
SLU (maybe)
TCU
Temple
Tulane
U ILL (watch tuition!!)
U VM
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Wake Forest
Wayne State
Penn State
Any DO program. Include UNECOM if you’re from the NE.
I can't recommend LMU, SOMA, RVU, BCOM, ICOM and LUCOM, for different reasons. Avoid those new schools that haven't graduated a class yet, if at all possible.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Your application screams online teaching and maybe a bit on business. You have listed more hours in hobbies than you have with clinical or non-clinical exposure. It's clear you want to help people, but having most of your activities be focused on online tutoring puts your application at risk of getting screened out. We want physicians who are comfortable being around sick people in various states of pain and suffering. You don't have enough hours in both clinical and community settings to convince me yet.

It's a shame because Case really pushes community engagement among all of its undergrad students, so I'm suspecting you are holding back or you have unfortunately squandered opportunities just so you could graduate early (?).

CCEL Serves | Center for Civic Engagement and Learning | Case Western University

CCEL Serves is designed to offer CWRU students a variety of structured opportunities to get involved in community service. Students can opt to serve o...

case.edu

Yes, it lists a TON of tutoring opportunities, but they are in-person.

Any insight from your prehealth advisors/committee?

 

[justamando]

I would honestly not recommend EVMS and VCU since both schools are public and heavily prioritize Virginia students, especially EVMS since their merger with ODU. If OP wishes to apply to those schools he will need a higher MCAT score and more clinical/nonclinical hours since they both recommend around 300.

 

[ramazing]

Thank you all for the great responses and input! I am planning on starting a nursing assistant job for the summer in a few weeks, as well as conducting in-person volunteering at a local food bank. My biggest concern about applying this cycle is my 123 CARS section score. I really would like to apply, and I feel like a low CARS score is not as bad when compared to scoring low in the other sections. Please let me know your input on this subject, and if the rest of my application would buffer this. Thanks again!