WAMC-School List help 3.9 GPA 511 MCAT CA ORM

[HalJordann]

Hi SDN, I am making this post with the primary intention of helping with my school list for the next cycle. Any feedback on my school list or application would be great. Thank you all in advance!

Stats and Background

• CA, ORM, graduated from small private school in SoCal
• cGPA=3.93 sGPA=3.87
• MCAT: 511 (129, 127, 128, 127)

Clinical Experience
Paid

• Physical therapy aide= 143.5 hours
• Emergency Room technician= 486 hours

Volunteer

• COPE Health Scholar=40 hours, cut very short due to covid

Shadowing

• Anesthesia: 12 hours
• General Surgery: 30 hours
• Emergency room: 10 hours
• Primary Care: 20 hours

Research

• Academic research: 470 hours, includes a poster presentation and a fellowship award
• Biotech company: Going to be 600 hours by time of application, 2500 projected

Nonclinical volunteering

• Dog shelter: 75 hours
• Church group leader: 50 hours
• 7 day mission trip doing manual labor (non-clinical): ~84 hours
• Crisis Text line: 52 hours by application time, projected 400 total

Other EC’s/Paid Employments

• President of the Medical Club for 2 years: 100 hours.
• Paid Tutor for high school kids: 137 hours
• Summer Rec Program leader for underserved kids: 184 hours

Preliminary school list:

1. Davis
2. San Diego
3. Irvine
4. Loma Linda
5. Kaiser
6. Cal Univ Health and Sciences
7. Tulane
8. Albany
9. Med college of wisconsin
10. Penn State
11. Virginia Tech
12. Univ of Vermont
13. Wake Forest
14. Colorado
15. Quinnipiac
16. New York Medical College
17. TCU
18. Nova
19. Rosalind Franklin
20. EVMS
21. VCU
22. Oakland-B
23. West Virginia
24. Univ of Wisconsin
25. U of A Tucson
26. AT Still
27. Touro
28. Western
29. KCU
30. DMU
31. PCOM

Preliminary list made by MSAR while looking at stat competitiveness and OOS acceptance rates.

My Questions:

• Should I be adding more schools since I am CA ORM?
• What other schools are viable options for me?
• Any red flags, etc that you could see with my application are also wanted. Obviously my stats are pretty average for a California applicant.

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[Faha]

Arizona, West Virginia and U Wisconsin admit few non residents with your MCAT of 51 and no connection to the state and Virginia Tech has a regional bias.
You could add these schools:
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack