WAMC & School List Help | GA Resident | 3.72/510 | Research-Heavy

[ht4114]

Hello everyone, I am applying MD this application cycle after taking two gap years, and want to get feedback on my school list. I am a research-heavy applicant looking for a medical school that supports this, and after talking to multiple mentors, I am not applying for an MD/PhD.

Let me know your feedback!

1. cGPA: 3.73, sGPA: Not Calculated yet
2. MCAT: 505 (126/127/126/126) then 510 (128/127/125/130)
3. Residency: GA
4. Ethnicity and Background: ORM, first-generation college grad, FAP + Pell Grant
5. Undergrad: T5 Biomedical Engineering
6. Clinical Experience
   1. Rehab Hospital Gym Volunteer: 30 hours
   2. CRC: 800 completed and 2400 expected
      1. Read patient charts and work with physicians for screening, conduct in-person and virtual interviews, write history and reports.
      2. Also working on a first-author publication, but it will not be submitted before AMCAS submission.
7. Research Experience
   1. Undergrad Research: 1700 hours with one second-author pub and one conference
   2. Physician-Scientist Summer REU: 400 hours
   3. Gap Year Research: 1200 hours with one second-author pub and 1-2 more expected second-author publications. Same lab as undergrad research.
8. Shadowing Experience
   1. Pediatric Neurology: 8 hours
   2. PICU: 16 hours
   3. Emergency Medicine: 75 hours
   4. Neurosurgery: 16 hours
   5. Neurosurgery (Expected): 100 hours
9. Non-Clinical Volunteering: None
10. Other ECS
    1. Endurance Sports: 1200 hours
    2. Research/Mentorship Club
    3. Endurance Sportr Club Leadership
    4. Engineering Senior Design with medical school
11. Relevant Awards: Institutional research award, senior design award
12. Other: All of my clinical and research experiences have been specific to a disease that I have personal experience with and that influenced me to pursue medicine.
13. School List (I am trying to limit it to 25 schools, and I am targeting research and/or engineering-intensive schools, with a preference for the Northeast due to personal connections.)
    1. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
    2. Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
    3. Texas A&M University College of Medicine
    4. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
    5. Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
    6. Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
    7. Drexel University College of Medicine
    8. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
    9. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    10. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
    11. Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    12. University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine
    13. Tufts University School of Medicine
    14. Boston University Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine
    15. Carle Illinois College of Medicine
    16. Mercer University School of Medicine
    17. Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
    18. Emory University School of Medicine
    19. George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
    20. University of Colorado School of Medicine
    21. University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
    22. University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
    23. University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
    24. Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

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You are not ready to apply this year since you have no non clinical volunteering hours and only 30 hours of clinical volunteering. Your 800 hours as CRC appears to be mainly research. Many schools screen at 150 hours each for clinical and non clinical volunteering. In the coming year you should accumulate at least 150 hours of clinical volunteering/employment with patient contact. You should also accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering such as food bank, homeless shelter, etc.