WAMC/School List Help cGPA 3.93 sGPA 3.90 514 MCAT ORM

[warisk6]

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1. 3.93 cGPA and 3.90 sGPA
2. 514 MCAT - 128, 126, 129, 131
3. MI Resident
4. South Asian Male
5. Wayne State Undergrad
6. Clinical Experience: 3 years as a Medical Scribe (2100 hrs) with 1600 hrs projected, 3 years working as part time MA (100 hours) both paid clinical employment
7. Research: 3 years with 1120 hrs with 2 poster presentations, 1 pending 4th author publication.
8. ~75 hours shadowing (otolaryngology, pulmonology, internal medicine, urology)
9. ~170 hours non-clinical volunteering: 50 hrs tutoring underserved elementary school children and 120 hrs volunteering at local animal shelter
10. ~950 hrs in pre health fraternity with multiple leadership roles (secretary, director of internal affairs) that primarily focused on community service around the Detroit area (listed under volunteer/community service non clinical on my app)
11. Worked as social chair for indian students association, was also a member (260 hrs)
12. Awards: UROP (Undergraduate research opportunities) scholar and awarded funding for my own research project
13. Other hobbies listed on app: Soccer, Photography
14. Current GAP year: full-time working as medical scribe, research, travelling
15. Letters:
    1. bio professor (pretty weak, I had him freshman year and it was a hail mary)
    2. chem professor
    3. Public health professor
    4. Doctor I work for
    5. Research lab PI

Current School List:

• University of Arizona Tucson
• Kaiser Permanente
• University of Southern California (USC)
• University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine)
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
• University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
• University of Connecticut (UConn)
• Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine (Quinnipiac)
• Georgetown University
• George Washington University
• Carle Illinois College of Medicine
• University of Chicago Pritzker
• University of Maryland School of Medicine
• Boston University
• Tufts University
• University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMass Chan)
• Central Michigan University
• Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
• Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
• University of Michigan
• Wayne State University
• Western Michigan University
• University of Minnesota
• Creighton University
• Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
• Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
• Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Albany Medical College
• New York Medical College
• SUNY Downstate
• Duke University
• Wake Forest University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Ohio State University
• University of Cincinnati
• Drexel University
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• University of Wisconsin

Please let me know if there's any schools I should add/take out based on my app

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thank you for providing your WAMC profile. I'm a little struck by how you got your list. I know you have a fair number of reaches, but I'm wondering why you included so many out-of-region schools. What is your purpose as a physician that makes you a strong fit for places like Tucson, Carle Illinois, Maryland, Dartmouth, and Wisconsin?

 

[warisk6]

Thank you for providing your WAMC profile. I'm a little struck by how you got your list. I know you have a fair number of reaches, but I'm wondering why you included so many out-of-region schools. What is your purpose as a physician that makes you a strong fit for places like Tucson, Carle Illinois, Maryland, Dartmouth, and Wisconsin?

I basically just went through MSAR to find schools within my stats range. Then I went to the acceptance data on MSAR and found schools that accept around 25% or more of their students from OOS and put them on there. I wasn't sure if this was the best way to go about which is why I wanted some feedback/advice. Also what do you think my chances of getting into the schools I currently have on there are? Do I have too many reach schools?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I basically just went through MSAR to find schools within my stats range. Then I went to the acceptance data on MSAR and found schools that accept around 25% or more of their students from OOS and put them on there. I wasn't sure if this was the best way to go about which is why I wanted some feedback/advice. Also what do you think my chances of getting into the schools I currently have on there are? Do I have too many reach schools?

First, I think you need to do more homework about each school and figure out if you would really thrive at each school. Medical school is not like undergrad, and the curricula and opportunities to prepare for residency differ for many on your list.

How much is Cost of Attendance for each school? How much in loans will you be pulling if you went to each? How far away do you want to be from your core support system?

Are you within the interquartile range for most metrics at each of the schools on the list? (I'm not as sure about some on your list.) Can you name four research opportunities, curricular elements, clinical opportunities, or student support resources that you WILL take advantage of if you attended each school? Have you compared each program's opportunities so you can come up with some ranking or priority?

Carle Illinois specifically looks for applicants with a quantitative/engineering background. It's not clear you have this.

Have you talked at students at each school about their experience or any anticipated changes to their program that you may not know about right now?

Second, you don't have any service orientation activities: food distribution, shelter volunteer (sorry, not the animal shelter), job/tax preparation, legal support, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. If you submit an application with zero hours in this category, you are at risk of getting screened out at most schools. You may have a lot of activities serving underserved communities, but that's a different category.

 

[Faha]

You have several state public schools on your list that admit few non residents with no connection to the state. I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Michigan
Wayne State
Michigan State
Central Michigan
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Toledo
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Iowa
Ponce (St. Louis)
TCU
Colorado
Tulane
Alice Walton
Belmont
Roseman
USF Morsani
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Methodist (when it opens)
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Pittsburgh
Geisinger
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Tufts
UMass