Appreciate your guidance for school lists! I am a non-trad who has some unique work/leadership experience and a high MCAT. However, I'm not sure where to apply given my GPA is lower and I'm weak on research. Please note: MCAT is from September 2017 so it's invalid at most schools. I'm including a school list in this post - please tell me if I'm being too conservative or too ambitious and I'll adjust based on the schools where my score is valid. Thanks!
Resident: VA (Graduated in 2017)
Ethnicity: White
Major: Mathematics
Minor: N/A
MCAT: 520 (129/130/130/131)
GPA: 3.64 cGPA w/ downward trend (and part-time senior year), 3.62 sGPA
Employment: Full-time healthcare management consulting work at a major firm (e.g. McKinsey/Bain/BCG) since fall 2017; projects include:
Non-clinical: Thousands of hours volunteering in firefighting; 100 hours with refugee volunteering; undergraduate student newspaper (executive editor)
Clinical: Thousands of hours volunteering in EMS
Research: 300 hours in summer 2015; no publications/posters/meaningful results; edited undergraduate research journal
Shadowing: 100 hours nephrology, cardiology, internal medicine
Rec Letters: 5 letters: 3 professors (two strong and one meh) and 2 mentors at my current job (glowing)
Resident: VA (Graduated in 2017)
Ethnicity: White
Major: Mathematics
Minor: N/A
MCAT: 520 (129/130/130/131)
GPA: 3.64 cGPA w/ downward trend (and part-time senior year), 3.62 sGPA
Employment: Full-time healthcare management consulting work at a major firm (e.g. McKinsey/Bain/BCG) since fall 2017; projects include:
- COVID-19 government response support
- Clinical operations optimization program at a hospital system
- Budget optimization for a foreign health department
- Health tech start-up partnerships with global NGOs
- Merger management for two pharma companies
Non-clinical: Thousands of hours volunteering in firefighting; 100 hours with refugee volunteering; undergraduate student newspaper (executive editor)
Clinical: Thousands of hours volunteering in EMS
Research: 300 hours in summer 2015; no publications/posters/meaningful results; edited undergraduate research journal
Shadowing: 100 hours nephrology, cardiology, internal medicine
Rec Letters: 5 letters: 3 professors (two strong and one meh) and 2 mentors at my current job (glowing)