chicanapremed
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What are my chances? Would also greatly appreciate any comments on my school list.
**I used the WARS method of building a school list and feel as though I may have too many schools that are way above my stats, but please advise! Thank you, thank you!!
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
- cGPA 3.83
- sGPA 3.75
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts.
- 1st: 509 (127/126/127/129)
- 2nd: 512 (127/127/128/130)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
- California
- Ethnicity and/or race
- Hispanic / Latinx
- Undergraduate institution or category
- Loyola Marymount University
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Paid clinical - medical assistant at dermatology office - 2,000 hours completed, plan to complete around 1,500 more (working until summer of 2026)
- Volunteer - UCLA Care Extender Program - 250 hours completed
- Research experience and productivity
- Research with LMU professor at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in LA - 300 hours completed, first author on poster presentation at West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, LMU Research Conference, and Society of Vertebrate Paleontology International Conference (held in Canada that year)
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- Virtual Shadowing with MedSchoolCoach
- 50 hours with Mohs Surgeon
- 50 hours with Dermatologist
- Non-clinical volunteering
- Service Organization with LMU - 250 hours completed, worked with multiple organizations (packaged food donated from grocery stores for delivery to families experiencing food insecurity in LA, holiday events with children and families affected by domestic violence, bringing awareness of domestic violence to the LMU and LA community), also held leadership position within service organization x1 year
- CoachArt Volunteer - 50 hours completed, plan to complete about 50 more - weekly art or sport lessons with children living with chronic illnesses and their siblings
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Pharmacy Clerk during gap year (800 hours) - learned more about the difficulties patients experience while trying to get the medications their doctor prescribed them, navigated the insurance and healthcare system to find methods of affording these prescriptions for patients.
- Teaching Assistant - 900 hours completed
- Swim Instructor - 300 hours completed - a small passion of mine, have been teaching swim lessons to children and adults for 7 years
- Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS) Camp Leader - 50 hours completed - worked to inspire a love for science in elementary-aged girls in Bakersfield, CA.
- Lifeguard - 1000 hours completed - started since before college so not sure whether to include those hours or not. Hours while in college would be closer to 500 hours as I worked as a lifeguard less while in college.
- Victoria’s Secret PINK Sales Associate - 500 hours completed
- Relevant honors or awards
- LMU Thomas D. Pitts Award - “awarded to a graduating senior in the Department of Biology who has shown a growth to academic excellence and provided service to the University.”
- LMU Arrupe Scholarship - GPA
- LMU Leavey Family Scholarship - GPA
- AAA Pediatric Heart Center Scholarship - GPA and premed
- Sigma Xi Research Honors Society
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- Committee Letter will be submitted and will include letters from
- 1 science professor (I predict medium-strength letter)
- Science / research professor (one of the strongest letters I will have, took her upper division class and lab, TAed for 2 of her labs, conducted research under her guidance, dog- and house-sat for her multiple times)
- Ethics professor (I predict a strong letter)
- Physician I currently work for (I predict medium-strength letter, I am instructed to write an outline and she will add her input to letter)
- Committee Letter will be submitted and will include letters from
- My School List - planning to apply to at min 30, max 40 schools)
- California Schools (including my reach and far reach schools because they are in my home state)
- UC Davis
- UC Riverside
- UC Irvine
- UC San Diego
- UC San Francisco (??)
- Keck
- Stanford (??, probably not)
- Kaiser
- Charles R. Drew
- California University of Science and Medicine
- California Northstate University College of Medicine
- OOS Schools including reach and far reach (please help)
- Columbia (?)
- Duke (?)
- Cornell (?)
- Mayo (?)
- Univ of Pittsburgh
- Emory
- NYU Grossman
- Univ of Michigan
- Mt. Sinai
- Univ of Virginia
- Univ of Rochester
- Dartmouth
- Hofstra
- Hackensack
- Boston Univ
- Creighton
- Univ of Wisconsin
- Vermont
- Univ of Maryland
- Univ of Colorado
- Wake
- Wayne
- Univ of Illinois
- Western Michigan Univ
- Oakland Univ
- Eastern Virginia Univ
- Quinnipiac
- Univ of Arizona - Tucson
- Geisinger
- California Schools (including my reach and far reach schools because they are in my home state)
**I used the WARS method of building a school list and feel as though I may have too many schools that are way above my stats, but please advise! Thank you, thank you!!
