WAMC+school list, CA reapplicant 3.9/520+

[megr]

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I’m a reapplicant from CA (applied 20-21 cycle). Activities marked with * are new since my last app. Please suggest schools, especially mid-tier/OOS friendly!

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: cGPA: 3.9, sGPA: 3.8

2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 520+ (even breakdown)
-note I took it in early Jan 2020

3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): CA

4. Ethnicity and/or race: Asian

5. Undergraduate institution or category: Large public, 2020 grad

6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
-EMT volunteer (with leadership): ~450 hours
-EMT/clinical paid*: 1400+ hours
-Medical volunteer trip: ~200 hours, triaging patients, taking vitals, shadowing physicians

7. Research experience and productivity:
-Undergraduate researcher: ~700 hours over two years, fourth author on a pub
-Research internship: 440 hours
-RA position*: ~4000 hours, will likely have at least one first author pub by matriculation

8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented:
-12 hours in person emergency med
-75+ hours virtual*

9. Non-clinical volunteering:
-Food bank volunteer: 75 hours
-Teaching cooking classes to underprivileged kids*: 80 hours

10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
-Student org 1 (healthcare related): ~400 hours, had leadership, had significant impact in moving the org forward, was involved in outreach and teaching efforts
-Student org 2 (professional org): ~100 hours, related to food insecurity
-Taught a student-run course: 75 hours
-Tutor/course instructor: ~200 hours

11. Anything else not listed you think might be important: I have some fun hobbies that I might include, I did a cool minor


Tentative school list:

UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UCSD
Albany
*Pittsburgh
Cornell
Yale
Hofstra
Icahn
Northwestern
Stony Brook
*U Maryland
*UMass
*Vermont
*Oakland Beaumont
*Rosalind Franklin
*Emory
*SUNY Upstate
*Arizona
*Rochester
*MC Wisconsin

*did not apply last cycle

 

[chilly_md]

Did you receive any interviews?

Leave off the the medical volunteer trip as it comes across as voluntourism (particularly if it was not in Mexico). You have ample clinical experience in the US now. Did you write about the trip in your personal statement?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Can you elaborate on the food insecurity activity? How is it different from the food bank activity?

 

[megr]

Did you receive any interviews?

Leave off the the medical volunteer trip as it comes across as voluntourism (particularly if it was not in Mexico). You have ample clinical experience in the US now. Did you write about the trip in your personal statement?

I got one interview at a T20 that turned into a WL. I left the trip off my app last time for that reason but thought I'd add it here in case anyone had tips about if/how I should incorporate it for this cycle.

 

[megr]

Can you elaborate on the food insecurity activity? How is it different from the food bank activity?

I tried to keep it vague so I wouldn't dox myself but broadly the food insecurity activity was more about nutrition education/fundraising with a focus on students/the campus community, and the food bank activity involved actually distributing food to people in the city regardless of campus affiliation.

 

[chilly_md]

I would leave it off personally. You can replace it with a slot for your hobby as that shows you have outside interests and it can be a conversation item in an interview.

I suggest you try to get in-person shadowing and continue to bolster your non-clinical hours. Private practices may be more open to students shadowing and CA has lifted restrictions recently.

Apply to the following:

UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UCSD
Stanford
Pittsburgh
Cornell
NYU
Hofstra
Einstein
Icahn
Northwestern
Stony Brook
UMass
Vermont
Emory
Jefferson
Vanderbilt
WUSTL
Rochester
University of Wisconsin
USF Morsani
Western Michigan
SLU
UVA
Iowa
Dartmouth
Miami
Case
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Mayo
Colorado
Baylor
UTSW (these two Texas schools reserves some spots for applicants with your stats and research)