WAMC/School List Help| OR, 3.93, 516, ORM

[redtyphoon]

Would love any advice if I can expand on this school list or remove any schools. Thanks!

cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS

• cGPA: 3.93 | sGPA: 3.9

MCAT score(s) and breakdown

• 516 (130/126/128/132)​

State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)

• OR​

Ethnicity and/or race

• East Asian​

Undergraduate institution or category

• WA state flagship​

Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)

• Eye clinic scribe (320 hrs, but will work here full-time during gap so will also forecast 2000+ hrs)​
• Medical Center patient escort (120 hrs)​
• Telemedicine volunteer (150 hrs)​

Research experience and productivity

• Research assistant at neurogenetics lab (1700 hrs, 1 pub provisionally accepted, 8th author)​
• Joined a cardiology lab this year (100 hrs, working on a 2nd author case study pub but unsure if it will be accepted before June)​
• 2 undergrad research symposiums​

Shadowing experience and specialties represented

• ED 40hrs​
• Peds 10 hrs​
• Hospital med 10 hrs​
• Anesthesiology 30 hrs​
• Pulmonology 10 hrs​
• Neurology 10 hrs​
• Nephrology 30 hrs​
• Telemedicine 10 hrs​
• Cardiology 10 hrs​

Non-clinical volunteering

• English instructor that teaches elderly immigrant Chinese population (250 hrs, will also forecast)​

Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)

• Co-founded a clinical software tool to reduce documentation burden for physicians (800 hrs, will also forecast)​
  • Hoping to run a pilot program with a local clinic soon​
• Created an undergrad AMSA chapter w/ some friends (120 hrs)​
  • Scaled it over 100+ paid national affiliates in two years​
• Scholarship Coordinator for a cultural club (300 hrs)​
  • created the community scholarship to support AAPI community​
• Telemed PM intern at a hospital group over the summer (480 hrs)​
  • Project focused on deploying POCUSs into the urgent care clinics​
• Technology support lead at undergrad library (1000 hrs)​
• Worked at two early-stage med/biotech startups as a strategy intern over the last two quarters of undergrad (100 hrs each quarter)​
  • Conducted market interviews w/ key stakeholders to learn more about their problems and researched market size and value​
• Outreach Director for school’s entrepreneurship program (50 hrs)​
  • Invited founders and VC investors to talk to student interest groups​

Relevant honors or awards

• United Health Scholar​
• Wells Fargo Scholarship​
• Kaiser Permanente Health Care Career Scholar​
• APIA Scholar​
• Other university-related research and one-time merit scholarships​

School List (in no particular order)
Boston University
Case Western
Cincinnati
Drexel
Einstein
George Washington
Indiana
Jefferson
Maryland
Northwestern
Ohio State
OHSU
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Rochester
Sinai
Stanford
Temple
Tufts
UCLA
UCSF
University of Colorado
University of Michigan
USC
Vermont
Virginia Commonwealth
Western Michigan

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[Mr.Smile12]

I'm curious how you chose your schools given your activities that address issues among East Asians. Some of the schools you listed may not have a significant Asian patient population when it comes to rotations AFAIK. Did you connect with APAMSA?

 

[redtyphoon]

I'm curious how you chose your schools given your activities that address issues among East Asians. Some of the schools you listed may not have a significant Asian patient population when it comes to rotations AFAIK. Did you connect with APAMSA?

I chose these schools primarily based off of MCAT stats and some with a stronger entre focus. I haven't reached out to any APAMSA chapters, but would you recommend connecting with them to learn more about their school's Asian pt population? Thank you!

 

[redtyphoon]

@Faha @chilly_md @Goro would love to get y'alls advice as well!

 

[Faha]

Remove OHSU since they admit few non residents with no connection to the state. You should receive several interviews from the other schools on your list.

 

[Goro]

School List (in no particular order)

OR HS

Boston University

Case Western
Cincinnati
Einstein
George Washington
Jefferson
Ohio State
Pittsburgh
Rochester
Sinai
Stanford
Temple
Tufts
UCLA
UCSF
University of Colorado
University of Michigan
USC
Vermont
Western Michigan

My mods to your list above.
Also consider:

Hofstra
Dartmouth
USF Morsani
SUNY-SB
Brown
U MA
U IA
Emory
NYU-LI
Miami
SLU
Vanderbilt (maybe)
Harvard
Yale
Cornell
U Chicago
Mayo

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I chose these schools primarily based off of MCAT stats and some with a stronger entre focus. I haven't reached out to any APAMSA chapters, but would you recommend connecting with them to learn more about their school's Asian pt population? Thank you!

It wouldn't hurt knowing the type of support you would have in understanding healthcare disparities among the Asian group as well as support structures and leadership/mentoring for Asian clinicians.

 

[chilly_md]

Agree with Goro. Perhaps Creighton and VCU would be worth an app too. If Goro’s additional suggestions would make your list too long, you could skip Brown and UMass.

 

[redtyphoon]

Thank you everyone for the feedback!