WAMC School List Help (520/3.95)

[simplefarmer]

---

Members don't see this ad.

Hello, would love some advice on how accurate the admit.org list is, and if I should apply more broadly, thank you!
CA resident, 3.95cGPA/3.93sGPA, 1st MCAT 127/130/132/131

Research: total 1900
neuro basic science lab, 2 years, 800 hours
Metabolomics / clinical lab, 2 years, 700 hours
Machine learning / clinical lab, 1 year, 400 hours
1 first author pub at mid tier journal
2 first author posters at university symposium, 2 first author posters at national conference
Clinical: total 1300
EMT work for agency 911/IFT, 900 hours
MA work for derm clinic, 400 hours
72 hours of shadowing
Volunteer
Refugee Children’s Shelter Mentor, 300 hours
Paid Non-Clinical
AI Programming Intern, 500 hours
Refugee Agency Intern, 400 hours
Extracirriculars
Stats (R Programming, Regression Analysis) TA, grouped into 1 activity, 150 hours
Premed Club chair, 200 hours
Cultural club VP, 400 hours
College Council VP, 200 hours

1 gap year, working at a derm clinic/remote data analysis for research labs

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Without more details on your activities, I suppose you are okay with the list. Do you have an idea about your mission fit with the schools? You clearly have a flag in the ground for refugee-related issues, so it's important that you have also expanded beyond this group, which I would suspect you have a strong affinity. With 300 hours of being a shelter mentor, I think you're good to go as far as cannon fodder is concerned.

Some of your baseline schools can be removed unless you really like the geography and want to serve the people in that area (Creighton, Western Michigan, Dartmouth, Cincinnati). In fact, remove any school where you know you wouldn't want to live for more than medical school.

 

[simplefarmer]

Without more details on your activities, I suppose you are okay with the list. Do you have an idea about your mission fit with the schools? You clearly have a flag in the ground for refugee-related issues, so it's important that you have also expanded beyond this group, which I would suspect you have a strong affinity. With 300 hours of being a shelter mentor, I think you're good to go as far as cannon fodder is concerned.

Some of your baseline schools can be removed unless you really like the geography and want to serve the people in that area (Creighton, Western Michigan, Dartmouth, Cincinnati). In fact, remove any school where you know you wouldn't want to live for more than medical school.

Thank you for the recommendations! Yes, my mission fit has to do with personal history which extends into the patient populations that my EMT agency covered, my work at the refugee agency, and how I look into social determinants of health in research moving forward. I wanted to talk more about my patient facing experiences in my primary app, then move into more data focused, research sections (metabolomics and genomics) in the secondary app.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thank you for the recommendations! Yes, my mission fit has to do with personal history which extends into the patient populations that my EMT agency covered, my work at the refugee agency, and how I look into social determinants of health in research moving forward. I wanted to talk more about my patient facing experiences in my primary app, then move into more data focused, research sections (metabolomics and genomics) in the secondary app.

The problem is how does your mission fit with schools on your list? Every student has a patient history, so how do you know they value your work at the refugee agency? Every school will teach you SDH, and being an EMT won't help you stand out (by itself). How does metabolomics and genomics have anything to do with your mission?

 

[Faha]

You have a good list and should receive several interviews