WAMC (School List Cuts)

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belugaa said:
Non-clinical volunteering: ~150 hours (tutoring underserved students, food pantry)
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For service orientation activities, I presume you only have 70-80 hours working in the food pantry. Your application will be stronger if you boosted this up to at least 150 before applying. Your application may get screened out, especially at service oriented schools like Rush and the Jesuit schools like Loyola, which expect hundreds more hours.

Advocacy is not apparent from the profile so if you have none, that might not make you a good fit for many programs pushing social responsibility of medicine, such as UChicago and Einstein.

Is your fiancé involved with picking your schools? Have your reached out to schools in SF?
 
Mr.Smile12 said:
For service orientation activities, I presume you only have 70-80 hours working in the food pantry. Your application will be stronger if you boosted this up to at least 150 before applying. Your application may get screened out, especially at service oriented schools like Rush and the Jesuit schools like Loyola, which expect hundreds more hours.

Advocacy is not apparent from the profile so if you have none, that might not make you a good fit for many programs pushing social responsibility of medicine, such as UChicago and Einstein.

Is your fiancé involved with picking your schools? Have your reached out to schools in SF?
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Thank you for the advice!

I'm already not applying to Rush because of the service hours, and Loyola I've only kept in because it's instate. I do hope to get more service hours over time for the food pantry, but it's a little too late to get anything more than projected hours since applications go live tomorrow.

I do have a significant amount of work advocating for LGBTQ+ patients, but I counted those as part of research hours in the profile since I did get a publication from the experience. On AMCAS I'll be listing it under social justice/advocacy!

My fiance is supportive about me applying wherever I can, and I've definitely added all the MD SF schools (UCSF, Stanford, Kaiser has a hospital based there too). Could you tell me a bit more about "reaching out" to these schools? Do I have to speak with them before I apply?
 
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[Ohio State University]
[University of Rochester]
[Wake Forest]
[Tufts]
[Jefferson]
[Hofstra]
[New York Medical College]
[Temple] --> Yield protection (512 median)?
[Virginia Tech] --> Yield protection (513 median)?
[Boston University]
[University of Miami]
[USF Morsani]
Icahn
Emory
Brown (They interview so few applicants and a lot of them are their BS/MD students).
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
UPenn
Columbia
Duke
Stanford
Vanderbilt
NYU
Yale
Mayo (Cold ASF, unless Mayo Pheonix)
UMich
University of Pittsburgh
Case Western
Kaiser Permanente
USC Keck*
UCLA*
UCSD*
UCSF* (If you want to cut schools, could remove some of the UC's. They are always hecka competitive...but you are a competitive applicant...idk.)
 
belugaa said:
Thank you for the advice!

I'm already not applying to Rush because of the service hours, and Loyola I've only kept in because it's instate. I do hope to get more service hours over time for the food pantry, but it's a little too late to get anything more than projected hours since applications go live tomorrow.

I do have a significant amount of work advocating for LGBTQ+ patients, but I counted those as part of research hours in the profile since I did get a publication from the experience. On AMCAS I'll be listing it under social justice/advocacy!

My fiance is supportive about me applying wherever I can, and I've definitely added all the MD SF schools (UCSF, Stanford, Kaiser has a hospital based there too). Could you tell me a bit more about "reaching out" to these schools? Do I have to speak with them before I apply?
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We have our own resource on Treating Trans Patients, if you don't already know. (Go to the end of the article.)
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Treating Trans Patients: What You Need to Know | Student Doctor Network | SDN

Providing gender-affirming care and treating trans patients as a healthcare provider is important. Knowing how to approach it is the first step.
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As for reaching out:
www.studentdoctor.net

Resources for Building Your School List | SDN

Compilations like the MSAR and the ADEA DSE are key resources for your school list, but don't overlook these other great information sources.
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I suggest these schools from your list with your stats:
In state:
University of Illinois
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Carle IL College of Medicine
Northwestern
Ohio State University
University of Rochester
Tufts
Jefferson
Hofstra
New York Medical College
Temple
Boston University
University of Miami
USF Morsani
Icahn
Emory
Brown
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
UPenn
Columbia
Duke
Stanford
Vanderbilt
NYU
Yale
Mayo
UMich
University of Pittsburgh
Case Western
Kaiser Permanente
USC Keck*
UCLA*
UCSD*
UCSF*
You could add Washington University (in St. Louis), Western Michigan.
 
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