3.99/516/OH/Caucasian. WAMC? School List Help

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• Year in school:
  • Rising 3rd Year Senior (Matriculated as Co2022, Graduating as Co2021).
  • Top 40 Engineering School: Major: Biomedical Engineering Minor: Polymer Science and Engineering
  • ORM - White
• Country/state of residence: Ohio. Preference to stay in Ohio or 1 state away.
• Schools to which you are applying: 43 schools:
  • Applied: JHU, Harvard, Penn, Michigan, WashU, Columbia, Cornell, Yale, Northwestern, Mayo-MN, Chicago, Pitt, NYU, UVA, Icahn, CWRU, CCLCM, Cincy, OSU, Rochester, Hofstra, USF, Carle Illinois, Einstein, Miami, Toledo, EVMS, UCF, VCU, Wright, NEOMED, Maryland, Indiana, NYMC, Wayne, WMed Stryker, Oakland, Boston, UCSF, SKMC, Tennessee, Drexel.
  • Goal is 39-40 schools.
• Cumulative GPA: 3.99
• Science GPA: 3.98
• MCAT Scores: 516: 130/129/127/130
• Research – include any abstracts/posters/publications and how you were credited (eg. First author, senior author, etc):
  ~500 hours of research on four projects (two finished -> no published papers/poster, two unfinished.
  • 2018-2019 -> Finished: Novel synthesis and catalytic efficiency testing of Metal-Free Electrocatalysts from (1) Graphene Oxide and (2) Carbon Nanotubes.
  • 2019-2020, New PI -> Unfinished: Synthesis and characterization of (3) multifunctional hydrolyzed benzoxazines and (4) benzoxathiazines.
• Volunteering (clinical) – include hours/sites: ~150 hours at Cleveland Clinic Main Campus during 2018-2019: Talking to patients and families, assist with food/drink, relaying questions/concerns between patients and their caregivers.
• Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties: 200 hours during the summer of 2019 (June - August) at an Urgent Care with an MD.
• Non-clinical volunteering:
  • Labeled as Leadership for AMCAS: 150 total: ~50 hours writing and supervising a Science Olympiad event for Division B regional for 3 years.
  • ~250 projected hours of Crisis Text Line Crisis Counselor Volunteering
• Extracurricular activities:
  • JV eSports team for 2018-2020 (League of Legends). 300 hours total.
  • Initiated into Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society) in April 2020.
• Employment history:
  • Paid Teaching Assistant for 2019-2021 for one course (grading, office hours, review sessions) (hired by my PI prof/character letter writer).
  • Adding on an additional Paid TA position for 2020-2021 (hired by my MATLAB letter writer) and continuing TA for above course. 500 hours total.
• Please include time span and weekly commitment for volunteering/research/shadowing/extracurriculars.: Volunteering for CCF was about 5 hr/week. Research was about 6-9 hr/week.
• Immediate family members in medicine? (y/n): Mother is RN.
• Specialty of interest: Anesthesiology seems interesting and relatively noncompetitive?
• Interest in rural health (y/n): No.

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[Faha]

You could add SLU, MCW, Boston U and Wake Forest. You should receive several interviews.

 

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Cycle results:
Schools Applications: See Post #1 (Did not complete JHU, Miami, EVMS secondaries)

Interviews:
Pittsburgh - Waitlist (Told no more movement by Admissions Dean)
NEOMED - Waitlist (Would not attend)
USF (SELECT) - Waitlist (Would not attend)
Wayne - Accepted (after a brief placeholder WL)
Ohio State - Defer/Waitlist (Tends to have their IS movement in early May)
Toledo - 9th week without a decision (Based on prior data for IS, likely would be accepted --> Still would not attend due to WSU OOS scholarship)

Advice for applicants:

• Don't skimp out on your clinical experience hours. I think that was the major roadblock in A) getting more interviews and B) converting IIs -> As.
• Don't submit your primary in early August. Especially when ORM with a bare minimum experiences application.