WAMC/School List Advice: 3.85, 515, NY

[robin77allen17]

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[Faha]

Can you break down your 250 hours of non clinical volunteering by activity ?

 

[robin77allen17]

Can you break down your 250 hours of non clinical volunteering by activity ?

friendly visiting program at a geriatric center (~60 hours), mentoring a local elementary student as part of my school’s social impact initiative (100 hours), volunteer at local food pantry with a club & planned/ran campus fundraisers with the same club to support local clinics (100 hours)

 

[ClashRoyaleKing]

Your diversity of experiences should aid in getting interviews. Attending an Ivy will also help. I think your non clinical volunteering is good, as you have multiple activities and have experience serving those who are less fortunate than yourself. I don’t think you need to apply DO. Perhaps expand your MD school. Shoot your shot at some reaches, but don’t go overboard. It is possible you’ll get an interview from a T20. Bolded schools are reaches.

Weill, Stanford, Icahn, Einstein, BU, Pittsburgh, Tufts, Case Western, Columbia, Geisel, UCSF, UCSD, UCLA, Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Stony Brook, UMass, NYMC, Sidney Kimmel, Wake Forest, Emory, Ohio State, UMiami, Zucker/Hofstra, Albany, Rochester, Penn State

You could also add:
Kaiser
TCU
Belmont
Nova
USF Morsani
UMiami
SUNY Upstate
SUNY Downstate
CUNY
Creighton
EVMS
VCU
VTC
USC

 

[Guggenburg]

Your diversity of experiences should aid in getting interviews. Attending an Ivy will also help. I think your non clinical volunteering is good, as you have multiple activities and have experience serving those who are less fortunate than yourself. I don’t think you need to apply DO. Perhaps expand your MD school. Shoot your shot at some reaches, but don’t go overboard. It is possible you’ll get an interview from a T20. Bolded schools are reaches.

Weill, Stanford, Icahn, Einstein, BU, Pittsburgh, Tufts, Case Western, Columbia, Geisel, UCSF, UCSD, UCLA, Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Stony Brook, UMass, NYMC, Sidney Kimmel, Wake Forest, Emory, Ohio State, UMiami, Zucker/Hofstra, Albany, Rochester, Penn State

You could also add:
Kaiser
TCU
Belmont
Nova
USF Morsani
UMiami
SUNY Upstate
SUNY Downstate
CUNY
Creighton
EVMS
VCU
VTC
USC

Sinai, Pittsburgh, Northwestern and Einstein (because of free tuition) are also reaches

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
All 4 SUNYS
Hofstra
Mount Sinai
New York Medical College
Albany
Rochester
Hackensack
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Tufts
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
TCU
Belmont
St. Louis
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Kaiser
Alice Walton (when it opens)

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Attended Ivy; Humanities major with an extensive honors research project in senior year related to medicine; social sciences minor. I plan to make this the theme of my app.
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year-long global health fellowship in junior year

So why not go for an MPH now versus going for medicine now? The lack of details doesn't give me a reason to sway faculty opinions that you seem more invested there (100 clinical hours plus a rather large number of shadowing). What is your theme?