WAMC/School List help: 523 MCAT, 3.84 cGPA

[gdub4ever]

• GPA: 3.84 cGPA, 3.75 sGPA
• Major: Biochemistry at CA R1 state school, entering 4th year
• MCAT: 523 (130/131/130/132)
• ORM/URM: ORM (south asian and middle eastern)
• Clinical volunteering: ~800 hours across child life and two student-run clinics
• Non-clinical volunteering: ~130 hours at homeless shelter, ~550 hours as high school science bowl coach, ~340 hours doing admin work for clinical research, ~2000 hours at a food kitchen
• Shadowing: 75 hours across internal medicine (no primary care yet)
• Tutoring: ~100 hours tutoring high school science (separate from other related activity)
• Research: ~670 hours at immunology lab, ~450 hours from a self-designed project, ~350 hours from another self-designed project, ~10 hours at a new lab I joined last month
  • Pubs/Posters: 3 first author posters, 1 first author paper, 1 school level publication

I bought MSAR but am confused what schools I should aim for. I might get yield protected from mid-tier service schools due to my MCAT and don't have a super impressive GPA for top schools, either. I am looking at median GPAs, by the way. Not sure if that's the way to go, either.

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[Faha]

Where is your state of residence ?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

• 75 hours across internal medicine (no primary care yet)

Usually IM Is primary care, so is it a specialty within IM?

~2000 hours at a food kitchen

Wow! Just checking how long you have been doing this. 2000 hours is equivalent to a year of full-time work!

 

[gdub4ever]

Where is your state of residence ?

California.

 

[gdub4ever]

Usually IM Is primary care, so is it a specialty within IM?


Wow! Just checking how long you have been doing this. 2000 hours is equivalent to a year of full-time work!

Yes, they are specialties. Cardiology and GI.

The 2000 hours are from ~5 years of volunteering. I started in high school and am still currently with the organization so included all hours.

 

[chilly_md]

Yes, they are specialties. Cardiology and GI.

The 2000 hours are from ~5 years of volunteering. I started in high school and am still currently with the organization so included all hours.

Don’t refer to it as IM then on AMCAS. Putting just cardiology or GI is clearer.

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
UCSF
UCLA
UCSD
UC Irvine
UC Riverside (if you are from that region)
UC Davis
Kaiser
USC Keck
Washington University (in St. Louis-almost a guaranteed interview with your stats)
Vanderbilt
USF Morsani
Duke
Georgetown
Pittsburgh
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
NYU
Columbia
Cornell
Rochester
Boston University
Tufts
Dartmouth
Brown
Yale
Case Western
Cincinnati
Ohio State
U Michigan
Western Michigan
Northwestern
U Chicago

 

[gdub4ever]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
UCSF
UCLA
UCSD
UC Irvine
UC Riverside (if you are from that region)
UC Davis
Kaiser
USC Keck
Washington University (in St. Louis-almost a guaranteed interview with your stats)
Vanderbilt
USF Morsani
Duke
Georgetown
Pittsburgh
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
NYU
Columbia
Cornell
Rochester
Boston University
Tufts
Dartmouth
Brown
Yale
Case Western
Cincinnati
Ohio State
U Michigan
Western Michigan
Northwestern
U Chicago

Thank you for this list! Rush is my dream school. Do you recommend applying to Rush or are my stats too high?

 

[Faha]

Thank you for this list! Rush is my dream school. Do you recommend applying to Rush or are my stats too high?

Your stats are high for Rush but you could contact the school and let them know your very interested.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Your stats are high for Rush but you could contact the school and let them know your very interested.

If you had a lot of insight and meaningful experience from your food bank (with 2000+ hours), maybe that is enough to interest Rush. I'm not sure... you have the other shelter work.

Network with the students at the schools to see if there is anyone similar to your profile in the current classes.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I just referenced someone else with significant food bank experience to cross-reference your list for any medical schools with courses about food/nutrition as medicine.

Medical Schools Using the HmF Curriculum

Find out which medical schools are using the Health meets Food Culinary Medicine curriculum and how to contact the leaders of each program.

culinarymedicine.org

Case opens new kitchen classroom to help expand teaching of food as medicine

Case Western Reserve University Thursday unveiled what it’s calling the largest state-of-the-art teaching kitchen in the U.S.

www.ideastream.org

Doctors in the Kitchen

Medical schools are offering hands-on nutrition training in hopes it will inspire patient conversations about the role of diet in disease prevention.

www.aamc.org

Culinary Medicine Curriculum

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine offers this culinary medicine curriculum, based on the foundational work of Michelle Hauser.

lifestylemedicine.org

Log in | ACP Online

www.acponline.org

Cooking class aims to prepare medical students for better patient care

School of Medicine students created the Cooking for the Everyday Eater class that teaches hands-on cooking and food-based nutrition.

www.umassmed.edu

Is offering cooking classes to medical professionals a new trend? We sure hope so

OA Text is an independent open-access scientific publisher showcases innovative research and ideas aimed at improving health by linking research and practice to the benefit of society.

www.oatext.com

 

[gdub4ever]

I just referenced someone else with significant food bank experience to cross-reference your list for any medical schools with courses about food/nutrition as medicine.

Medical Schools Using the HmF Curriculum

Find out which medical schools are using the Health meets Food Culinary Medicine curriculum and how to contact the leaders of each program.

culinarymedicine.org

Case opens new kitchen classroom to help expand teaching of food as medicine

Case Western Reserve University Thursday unveiled what it’s calling the largest state-of-the-art teaching kitchen in the U.S.

www.ideastream.org

Doctors in the Kitchen

Medical schools are offering hands-on nutrition training in hopes it will inspire patient conversations about the role of diet in disease prevention.

www.aamc.org

Culinary Medicine Curriculum

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine offers this culinary medicine curriculum, based on the foundational work of Michelle Hauser.

lifestylemedicine.org

Log in | ACP Online

www.acponline.org

Cooking class aims to prepare medical students for better patient care

School of Medicine students created the Cooking for the Everyday Eater class that teaches hands-on cooking and food-based nutrition.

www.umassmed.edu

Is offering cooking classes to medical professionals a new trend? We sure hope so

OA Text is an independent open-access scientific publisher showcases innovative research and ideas aimed at improving health by linking research and practice to the benefit of society.

www.oatext.com

Thank you! In addition to the food bank, I self-designed and led a nutrition research project in my local area. I am the first author of the publication and all associated posters.