WAMC/school list help - 509/3.8

[Mozmo]

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1. cGPA and sGPA
   1. cGPA 3.80, sGPA 3.71
2. MCAT score and breakdown.
   1. 509 (127/124/127/131)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
   1. WA
4. Ethnicity and/or race
   1. White male
5. Undergraduate institution or category
   1. University of Washington, BA biochemistry, Minors in global health, music
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   1. 40 hrs volunteering (planning EMT as seen in 10)
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. none 🙁
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. ~10 hrs internal medicine, intend on shadowing ENT, DERM, and emergency med
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. Zero
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. Intending EMT work starting this winter (during winter and spring quarter) through a gap year
    2. Intending bulk of volunteering during gap year
    3. Drum Major of school marching band (270 members)
    4. Study abroad (safety net hospitals in UK)

Happy to include any more potentially helpful information. Open to MD and DO but prefer MD. Should I retake mcat?

Curious what to consider beyond UW and WSU as my instate schools that I would like to go to

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

When did you submit your application? If you haven't, what school recruitment events have you attended? What is your purpose as a physician?

Why are your experience hours so low?

 

[Mozmo]

Experience hours are on low side because I wasn't sure I wanted to be a doctor until later on in my undergrad which is part of the reason I am taking a gap year for experience (I am entering my senior year and plan to apply to enter in 2027). I decided I wanted to be a physician because of a study abroad program I did in the UK highlighting safety net hospitals and it sort of confirmed why I thought it would be the profession that I could find fulfilment in and leave a net positive affect. Additionally I was always very involved in our marching band which is many many hours a week.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Experience hours are on low side because I wasn't sure I wanted to be a doctor until later on in my undergrad which is part of the reason I am taking a gap year for experience (I am entering my senior year and plan to apply to enter in 2027). I decided I wanted to be a physician because of a study abroad program I did in the UK highlighting safety net hospitals and it sort of confirmed why I thought it would be the profession that I could find fulfilment in and leave a net positive affect. Additionally I was always very involved in our marching band which is many many hours a week.

Why haven't you volunteered or worked at Harborview while you have been in Seattle?

I appreciate the inspiration to become a physician from the UK safety net hospitals' experience, but you need to back it up with your gap year working in similar community-based or safety-net clinics. You need to immerse yourself in the communities that use those resources and their overall life concerns aside from health. If you don't get at least 150 hours of service orientation activities before you submit your application, your profile would be "all hat no cattle." Your in-state options (namely WSU and PNWU) are very focused on local underserved resource-constrained communities; if you haven't lived among them, you need to immerse yourself in them once you are done with college. Better if you start now.

I would suggest taking a second gap year. Do Americorps, or if you want global health, do Peace Corps or a similar reputable NGO.

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