WAMC/ School List Help- 3.87/514 MN

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I've been freaking out a little about finalizing by school list but this is what I have so far. Thanks in advance for helping 🙂

• State/Country of Residence: MN
• Ties to other States/Regions: NC, IN, GA (previously lived there)
• URM? (Y/N): N
• Year in School: Senior
• Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Neuroscience (minor in Sustainability Studies, minor in History)
• Cumulative GPA: 3.87
• Science GPA: 3.81
• MCAT Score(s): 514 (127,130,129, 128)
• Research Experience: 2+ years (500 hours) in neuroscience lab, summer research internship with biotechnology company
• Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): Publication in process, 3rd author. Honors thesis.
• Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): 200+ hours as a ED scribe, 400+ hours as ED technician (current position, expected to have ~1500 hours by the time of matriculation)
• Physician Shadowing: none 🙁 shadowing got canceled cause of COVID
• Non-Clinical Volunteering: 50 hours at a food shelf program
• Other Employment History: TA for neuroscience class, Physics and genetics tutor
• Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N
• Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): maybe
• Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): N
• Medical School List:

University of Minnesota- Twin Cities (and Duluth campus)

University of Wisconsin- Madison

Iowa

MC Wisconsin

USF-Morsani

Wayne State

Creighton

Oakland

Cincinnati

U Indiana

U Miami

U Illinois

Toledo

SUNY Downstate

Stony Brook

VCU

Western MI

EVMS

Vermont

Quinnipiac

Wake Forest

University of Maryland

Hofstra

Einstein

Geisinger Commonwealth

Wake Forest

U Colorado

UNC Chapel Hill

Drexel

California University of Science and Medicine

Western University COMP - Pomona

Touro University COM - California

Chicago COM - Midwestern University

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

 

[Banco]

I've been freaking out a little about finalizing by school list but this is what I have so far. Thanks in advance for helping 🙂

• State/Country of Residence: MN
• Ties to other States/Regions: NC, IN, GA (previously lived there)
• URM? (Y/N): N
• Year in School: Senior
• Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Neuroscience (minor in Sustainability Studies, minor in History)
• Cumulative GPA: 3.87
• Science GPA: 3.81
• MCAT Score(s): 514 (127,130,129, 128)
• Research Experience: 2+ years (500 hours) in neuroscience lab, summer research internship with biotechnology company
• Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): Publication in process, 3rd author. Honors thesis.
• Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): 200+ hours as a ED scribe, 400+ hours as ED technician (current position, expected to have ~1500 hours by the time of matriculation)
• Physician Shadowing: none 🙁 shadowing got canceled cause of COVID
• Non-Clinical Volunteering: 50 hours at a food shelf program
• Other Employment History: TA for neuroscience class, Physics and genetics tutor
• Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N
• Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): maybe
• Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): N
• Medical School List:

University of Minnesota- Twin Cities (and Duluth campus)

University of Wisconsin- Madison

Iowa

MC Wisconsin

USF-Morsani

Wayne State

Creighton

Oakland

Cincinnati

U Indiana

U Miami

U Illinois

Toledo

SUNY Downstate

Stony Brook

VCU

Western MI

EVMS

Vermont

Quinnipiac

Wake Forest

University of Maryland

Hofstra

Einstein

Geisinger Commonwealth

Wake Forest

U Colorado

UNC Chapel Hill

Drexel

California University of Science and Medicine

Western University COMP - Pomona

Touro University COM - California

Chicago COM - Midwestern University

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

You have a solid application. Yes the lack of shadowing isn't ideal, but you also have hundreds of hours as a scribe that should give you exposure to how physicians work. Your non-clinical volunteering is on the low side.

Of your list, I think the following schools are low yield: Stony Brook, Downstate, UNC, Maryland. Mostly because they are state schools outside of your region, and you generally need to have above average stats for them when an applicant is OOS. If you truly have strong ties to NC then you can keep UNC.


I think those would be better replaced with: SLU, Rochester, Temple, Jefferson, Georgetown, GWU, Emory.