I would really appreciate help making a school list. I am willing to go anywhere. Additionally, any advice for areas of improvement to make my application stronger would be awesome. Please do not quote
- cGPA and sGPA: 3.98
- MCAT score: 519 (132/127/129/131)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): New Mexico, rural
- Ethnicity and/or race: White
- Undergraduate institution or category: Small liberal arts college
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Clinical research coordinator in neurocritical care at T10 medical school (2000h), a few late author pubs 2000 expected by matriculation
- Emergency department volunteer (120h)
- Hospice volunteer (120h)
- Research experience and productivity
- Wet lab studying Alzhiemer’s disease in undergrad lab, multiple local presentations/posters, 1st author poster at national conference, 1st author pub in low impact journal (1,100h)
- Summer clinical research Internship at T5 medical school (500h)
- Summer clinical research internship in neuroscience at local clinic (500h)
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- Neurology, internal medicine, thoracic surgery, interventional pulmonology (140h)
- Non-clinical volunteering
- Founded club dedicated to visiting people at nursing homes who want more company or are experiencing isolation, especially those with neurological issues (600h)
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Ultra endurance mountain biking multiple wins and top 5 finishes in races across the country
- President of Neuroscience Club (400h)
- President of Public Health Club (300h)
- Tutor for my college (400h)
- Relevant honors or awards
- Summa cum laude
- Neuroscience department award + distinction
- Merit scholarship for undergrad
- Award for 1st author poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience conference
- Anything else not listed you think might be important: LOR from 2 PIs at T10 medical schools, LOR from 3 professors that know me really well through research/several classes