WAMC/School list advice 3.82, 511

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1. cGPA: 3.82 sGPA: 3.75
2. MCAT score: 511 (126, 129, 124, 132)
3. State of residence: New Hampshire
4. Ethnicity and/or race: White, ORM
5. Undergraduate institution or category: T50, MA
6. Clinical experience:
   1. Medical Assistant Dermatology (1200 hours)
   2. Medical Assistant Family Medicine (500-ongoing)
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. 1000 hours, Research in neurosurgery lab (top research hospital, letter of rec from PI)
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. 90 hours Family Med (separate from medical assistant job)
   2. 10 hours Neurosurgery
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. 1000+ hours as a youth volleyball coach
   2. 350 hours as a volunteer health educator in underserved city schools
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. SAT tutoring 100 hours
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Deans list, multiple semesters,
    2. Magna cum
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important
    1. Concerned about unbalanced MCAT, went back and forth on retaking but was concerned CARS and PS could drop, making it harder to significantly improve. Planning to apply MD and DO. Need help with putting together a school list where I may be a good mission fit, focusing more on primary care. Looking for a few more DO schools to add to list and any other MDs where I may have a chance

MD:
Tufts
Rosalind Franklin
Wake Forrest
Vermont
Nova MD
Rush
Tulane
Quinnipiac
Drexel
Temple
Albany
Loyola
George Washinton
Creighton
Dartmouth
Penn State

DO:
UNECOM
PCOM
NYITCOM

 

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You could add these MD schools to your application:
New York Medical College
Hackensack
Jefferson
Georgetown
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
TCU
St. Louis
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State.
For DO schools consider adding these:
Touro-NY
CUSOM
LECOM
MU-COM
DMU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
KCU-COM

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Just a note: service orientation community service activities may be a bit light in your profile. 350 hours as a health educator is probably okay, but more work where you are not a subject matter expert is helpful: food distribution, shelter work, job placement services, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation are typical activities. Service-oriented schools like Rush and Loyola like to see hundreds to thousands of hours in this category.

Your 1000+ hours as a volleyball coach doesn't really address "alleviating distress" so much so it might not help you. It depends how you describe it and where volleyball shows up in the rest of your application.

 

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Just a note: service orientation community service activities may be a bit light in your profile. 350 hours as a health educator is probably okay, but more work where you are not a subject matter expert is helpful: food distribution, shelter work, job placement services, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation are typical activities. Service-oriented schools like Rush and Loyola like to see hundreds to thousands of hours in this category.

Your 1000+ hours as a volleyball coach doesn't really address "alleviating distress" so much so it might not help you. It depends how you describe it and where volleyball shows up in the rest of your application.

Thank you for the reply, two follow up questions.

Is the health educator role seen as a subject matter expert if it was designed as a peer-to-peer model for children in underserved communities? We were not presented as experts and had no formal health or teacher training.

Second question, is there an example of how volleyball could be presented that would push its classification more towards community engagement/service? I was not a college player or anything like that, this was something I participated in during COVID while this was the only form of exercise and social engagement for most of these kids.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thank you for the reply, two follow up questions.

Is the health educator role seen as a subject matter expert if it was designed as a peer-to-peer model for children in underserved communities? We were not presented as experts and had no formal health or teacher training.

Second question, is there an example of how volleyball could be presented that would push its classification more towards community engagement/service? I was not a college player or anything like that, this was something I participated in during COVID while this was the only form of exercise and social engagement for most of these kids.

First, how are you going to describe both of these activities in W/A? Specific details will help.