WAMC & School List Help - FL Resident

[Catlover1207]

1. cGPA 3.75 and sGPA 3.6
2. MCAT = 507 (126/127/126/128)
3. Florida resident with family ties to Virginia and Illinois
4. Caucasian
5. T10 public university
6. 1135 hours as a Medical Technician and CNA at a long-term care facility, ~1200 hours as a remote medical scribe, 140 hours as an ICU hospital volunteer, medical service trip to Panama (~40 hours)
7. 1 semester (~200 hours) internship working with underserved populations in a rural clinic. Currently working on a quality improvement paper that likely will not be published prior to my application. 1 poster presentation.
8. 76 hours virtual shadowing program in various specialties, 25 hours hematology-oncology (in person), 16 hours anesthesia (in person), 15 hours dermatology (in person), 8 hours OBGYN (in person)
9. ~160 hours as a volunteer TA for two undergraduate and one graduate level course. Philanthropy and volunteer events associated with my Panhellenic sorority focusing on child literacy (~100)

School list:

DO:
LECOM Bradenton
Burrell Melbourne
Nova
OCOM
VCOM Auburn
Touro Montana
Campbell
CCOM (Chicago)
PCOM Georgia
William Carey
ACOM

MD:
FSU
FIU
UF
USF
UCF
University of Miami
FAU
Medical College of Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Albany Medical College
Rush
Loyola
Temple
Penn State
Wake Forest
Drexel
George Washington
EVMS
Tulane
Quinnipiac
Virginia Commonwealth

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[Mr.Smile12]

Congratulations with your cheer accompishments.

I don't see many service orientation activities: food distribution, shelter volunteering, job/tax preparation, legal support, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. You should have 150 hours in these activities before applying to avoid getting screened out at most schools. Fundraising doesn't count, and teaching/mentoring/tutoring is on practically every application so it won't help you stand out. You sound like you are working with underserved communities in community clinics, but you need something else addressing social services that under-resourced communities access.

Can you point out your in-person shadowing?

 

[Catlover1207]

Congratulations with your cheer accompishments.

I don't see many service orientation activities: food distribution, shelter volunteering, job/tax preparation, legal support, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. You should have 150 hours in these activities before applying to avoid getting screened out at most schools. Fundraising doesn't count, and teaching/mentoring/tutoring is on practically every application so it won't help you stand out. You sound like you are working with underserved communities in community clinics, but you need something else addressing social services that under-resourced communities access.

Can you point out your in-person shadowing?

Just updated my shadowing hours to show which are in person!

 

[Faha]

You should receive some DO interviews. Your chances for MD interviews will be limited by your lack of nonclinical volunteering. Remove Rush and Loyola since they are looking for applicants with many hundreds or thousands of hours of non clinical volunteering.