WAMC/School list cGPA 3.74, sGPA 3.58, MCAT 519

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1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
   • cGPA: 3.74
   • sGPA: 3.59
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown
   • MCAT: 519
   • 129/130/130/130
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
4. • Pennsylvania (strong ties to FL)
5. Ethnicity and/or race
   • White Venezuelan
6. Undergraduate institution or category
   • T10, Northwestern
7. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   • Volunteer: 80 hours, 150 anticipated— generic hospital volunteering stuff
   • Paid: 420 hours, 2000 anticipated very hands on, ophthalmic tech at Wills Eye. work directly w patients and assist doctors with procedures. Perform diagnostic tests, work up patients, etc. will have letter of rec from a DR I work with closely and sometimes scribe for.
8. Research experience and productivity
   • Undergrad: 200 hrs genetics stuff w c elegans, LOR from PI
   • RA post grad: 1050 hrs cancer research, specifically DNA damage repair. not on best terms with PI from post grad
   • No presentations/posters. Only 1 acknowledgment, no pubs
9. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   • 110 hrs multiple specialties (nuro, cardiology, endocrine, anesthesia, IM, FM, Optho)
10. Non-clinical volunteering
    • 100 hrs odds and ends, mostly from when I was in a sorority for a few years
11. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    • Orientation Leader (150 hrs)
    • RA at summer dance intensive (500 hrs)
    • DANCE (infinite hours) started at 3, significant aspect of my life. legit could not fathom the hours. learned a lot about creativity, discipline, persistence, and drive, wrote as MME
    • Social justice (50 hrs 20 anticipated) advocating in my community, ongoing. most hours during covid, active in community supporting doctors at count commission meetings for mask wearing.
12. Relevant honors or awards
    • Deans list I guess lol
13. Anything else not listed you think might be important
    • Idk

My list (in no particular order) want to cut down to 30ish:

• U maryland
• George Washington
• Georgetown
• Johns Hopkins
• Jefferson
• Drexel
• Temple
• NYU
• Brown
• Boston U
• Tufts
• NYMC (grandma went to med school here)
• Northwestern
• U Mass
• U Miami
• Buffalo (mom went to med school here)
• duke
• FAU
• Columbia
• Einstein
• UF
• USF
• UCF
• U Conn
• UCSF
• Rush
• Emory
• Dartmouth
• Michigan
• Harvard
• U Chicago
• Cornell (grandma was assistant professor there)
• Yale
• Mount Sianai
• Stanford
• Pitt
• UVA
• Cooper Rowan
• Eastern VA
• Loyola
• virginia commonwealth
• Tulane

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Your lack of non clinical volunteering will limit your chances at some top tier schools. Rush and Loyola expect far more non clinical volunteering hours than you have. I suggest these schools:
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Commonwealth Geisinger
Pittsburgh
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
Cornell
Rochester
SUNY Buffalo
Hackensack
Vermont
Tufts
George Washington
Georgetown
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Duke
Wake Forest
USF Morsani
Miami
Cincinnati
Western Michigan
Northwestern

 

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Non-clinical volunteering

• 100 hrs odds and ends, mostly from when I was in a sorority for a few years

Reinforcing: this is not helpful to show service orientation in your application and puts your application at risk of getting screened out.

• Social justice (50 hrs 20 anticipated) advocating in my community, ongoing. most hours during covid, active in community supporting doctors at count commission meetings for mask wearing.

I know the advocacy category is relatively new, but can you be more detailed about what you are doing? Where was this advocacy?

 

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Reinforcing: this is not helpful to show service orientation in your application and puts your application at risk of getting screened out.


I know the advocacy category is relatively new, but can you be more detailed about what you are doing? Where was this advocacy?

I participated in several marches for in support of reproductive rights, support of LGBTQ rights, and against gun violence.
I also was very active in my local community in FL during COVID where I spoke at county commission meetings with local doctors in support of mask wearing and public health precautions. I also volunteered at a drive thru covid testing center event where I worked to register people to vote. some of what I did could be considered volunteering but I counted it here instead.

 

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just want to bump this to see if anyone else has some input! i submit primary yesterday (late i’m aware) and i am looking to form my school list to start pre writing secondaries.

 

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one more bump on this, i will probably actually apply to 40~ schools so any advice is very appreciated.