WAMC/School List Help - GPA: 4.00 MCAT: 511 CA ORM

[Bobby7956]

cGPA: 4.00 sGPA: 4.00
MCAT: 511 (128/124/130/129)
Residence: CA, north-cal
Ethnicity: Vietnamese
Institution: UCLA, currently a junior
Clinical experience:

• Medical assistant/Receptionist in Physician's office (~2500 hours across 2 and a half years)
  • BP readings, EKGs, patient check-in, administrative duties

Research experience:

• 150 hours Independent research project 2021-2022 (poster presentation)
• 200 hours for internship summer 2022 working in Virology Lab (poster presentation)
• 400 hours for internship summer 2023 working in Cardiology Lab (pub by end of year?) (poster presentation)
• Independent research project started this year Cardiology Lab at UCLA (around 150-200 hours by application)

Shadowing: None yet, will get 40-50 hours before submitting my application
Non-clinical volunteering:

• Notetaker for students with accommodations (40 hours)
• Teaching assistant for local middle school (25 hours)
• English teacher for a student in Ukraine (40 hours by application time)
• Homeless shelter, cooking, handing out meals (30 hours by application time)

First in college, associates in biology from CC
LOR: 1 from the physician I worked with for two years, 1 from my most recent summer internship PI, 1 from a very close professor whom I have done multiple projects with.

Current school list:
UCD (from Norcal)
UCLA
UCSF (URM)
UCSD
California University of Science and Medicine
Drexel
Rosalind Franklin
Robert Larner
George Washington
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Pennsylvania State
Wake Forest
Oakland University William Beaumont
Albany
Medical College of Wisconsin
Temple
Nova
Frank H. Netter at Quinnipiac
University of Colorado
Virginia Commonwealth
+ 5 more DO schools that I haven't researched yet

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[Mr.Smile12]

I'm unsure why you have some East Coast OOS schools. What is your mission fit with them?

Get closer to 150 hours of homeless shelter work before applying to avoid getting screened out at most schools. Your regional UC schools should be targets so have you networked with APAMSA and FGLImed chapters? Tell me why someone should extend an interview to you.

 

[Faha]

I suggest adding these schools to your application:
TCU
Creighton
St. Louis
Loyola
Belmont
Tulane
Belmont
Georgetown
Jefferson
Vermont
Alice Walton (when it opens)

 

[deleted1124957]

Feel free to apply to any of the below, we had a similar application.

The UC's

Kaiser

CUSM

CNU, they match incredibly well, give yourself the option.

Creighton University School of Medicine

Tulane University School of Medicine

Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Drexel University College of Medicine

Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin

Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University

Medical College of Wisconsin

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

Wayne State University School of Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Eastern Virginia Medical School

George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Georgetown University School of Medicine

Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Albany Medical College

Robert Larner,College of Medicine University of Vermont

New York Medical College

Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson

Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine IN SAINT LOUIS

Tufts University School of Medicine

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

University of Illinois College of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine