WAMC: School List Advice 519/3.98 2026-2027 cycle

[rickybobby67]

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Hello, working on my PS and school list now and looking for any tips. Trying to figure out if there are any schools I should add/cut. Thank you!

- First application
- GPA 3.98, sGPA 3.99
- MCAT 519 (130/129/129/131), 1 attempt
- Residence: MI
- White
- Public undergrad in midwest, grad year 2026

Clinical volunteering: 128 hours
- Through undergrad, helped out hospital and procedures unit

Clinical experience: ~1100 hours by time I apply
- Scribe in outpatient clinic

Research: ~1070 hours
- 370 hours in one lab: one poster presentation at school event
- 700 hours in another lab: 5th author pub in moderate impact, 2nd author pub in progress, part of a poster I did not present

Shadowing: 80 hours
- FM, ED, sports med, GI, derm, interventional cardio

Nonclinical volunteering: 240 hours + 70 projected
- Camp Kesem, college organization that runs a camp for kids whose parents have cancer

Other ECs
- Really into bodybuilding
- 200 hours tutoring for various science classes

List split into rough categories:

University of Michigan
WashU
Vanderbilt
Stanford
Boston University
Icahn
University of Virginia
Northwestern
Casewestern
Hofstra
USF Morsani
Duke
Weill Cornell
UCLA
Yale

Ohio State
University of Miami
Pittsburgh
Emory
Virginia Tech
University of Rochester
University of Illinois

Wayne State
Michigan State
Central Michigan
Western Michigan
Oakland University
Cincinnati
SLU
University of Toledo
Rosalind Franklin

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

You're looking good on checking all the boxes. Your mission fit and purpose will determine how successful you will be. To that end, experience details are essential to discern whether you are doing more than just checking the boxes.

I do think you need another non-clinical community service orientation experience than Camp Kesem because I want to know you are sincere about serving the needs of the community, especially those with whom you do not share in SES, race/ethnicity, or generation. Most premeds are comfortable working with children, so what have you done to work with those much older than you (veterans, retirees, general elderly)?