WAMC/School List Help ORM, 518/3.81, NY resident, need help narrowing school list?

[researchkid]

---

Members don't see this ad.

PLEASE SEE TITLE FOR QUESTION. THANK YOU.


cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: cGPA: 3.81 sGPA: 3.69 (upward trend 3.7/3.5/4.0/4.0)

1. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts: 518(129/127/131/131) one attempt only
2. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): NY, ties to MN (family lives there and I visit)
3. Ethnicity and/or race: Asian Indo-Caribbean (Guyanese)
4. Undergraduate institution or category: NY state school
5. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):

• 450 hrs Medical Assistant at OBGYN private practice
• 2880 hrs Medical Assistant and later promoted to chief MA and office manager at Allergy/Asthma/Immunology practice: lots of leadership and clinical responsibility in this role; listed as MME

1. Research experience and productivity

• 300 hrs iGEM: wet lab research, team presented at Giant Jamboree Conference, team earned gold medal for university
• 390hrs Theoretical/Computational Chemistry Lab: two publications one 2nd author (journal impact factor 5.6) and the other eight author (journal impact factor 14.4)
• 200 hrs (and ongoing) Clinical research related to Veterans : I served as clinical research coordinator. I participated in all stages of the research, from protocol development and recruitment to data collection and presentation of findings. Invited to give oral presentation at international medical conference and local county legislature Veterans committee. Also invited to give oral presentation at another medical conference in October; this research is listed as MME

1. Shadowing experience and specialties represented

• Allergy/Asthma/Immunology 100 hrs (Physician is certified and also sees internal med cases)
• OBGYN 50 hrs
• Pathology 8 hrs

1. Non-clinical volunteering

• 94hrs Volunteer with non-profit food bank, sorting, packing, and distributing food to low-income individuals, seniors, and Veterans
• 60hrs ESL-tutor for adults learning English
• 236 hrs Voluneering at an emergency housing facility for families helping children with homework and facilitating recreation time after school

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

• Graduated May 2021, took 4 gap years
• 150 hrs TEACHING: Teaching assistant for general chemistry, organic chemistry lab, and inorganic chemistry across 3 semesters
• 670 hrs LEADERSHIP: Editor-in-Chief of undergraduate science journal (started as editor, later managing editor, etc… activity done all 4 yrs of college, one of my MME)
• Co-created a local science writing competition with participation from 121 students across 29 school districts
• NON-CLINICAL EMPLOYMENT: Pharmacy technician 750hrs

Major application themes: leadership, science communication, Veteran outreach

1. Buffalo (Jacobs)
2. SUNY Upstate
3. Albany Medical College
4. SUNY Downstate
5. Temple University
6. Wayne State University
7. Saint Louis University
8. Drexel University
9. Western Michigan
10. Nova Southeastern
11. Rosalind Franklin
12. George Washington
13. Eastern Virginia
14. Penn State University
15. Medical College of Wisconsin
16. Quinnipiac University
17. Icahn at Mount Sinai
18. Albert Einstein
19. Stony Brook University
20. Hofstra
21. New York Medical College
22. University of Pittsburgh
23. Colorado
24. University of Iowa
25. Creighton University
26. Dartmouth (Geisel)
27. University of Cincinnati
28. Boston University
29. Ohio State
30. Tufts University
31. Emory University
32. Jefferson (Kimmel)
33. University of Miami
34. Cornell
35. University of Rochester
36. Duke University
37. Stanford University
38. Case Western Reserve
39. Brown University
40. USF (Morsani)
41. University of Arizona
42. Mayo Clinic (MN)
43. Northwestern Universtiy
44. UChicago
45. University of Virginia
46. WashU St. Louis
47. NYU Long Island
48. Columbia
49. Harvard
50. Johns Hopkins
51. Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
52. Seton-Hall Hackensack Meridian
53. Rush?
54. Loyola Univesity
55. Oakland University
56. Tulane University
57. Wake Forest
58. Yale?

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools from your list:

1. Buffalo (Jacobs)
2. SUNY Upstate
3. Albany Medical College
4. SUNY Downstate
5. Temple University
6. Saint Louis University
7. Drexel University
8. Western Michigan
9. George Washington
10. Quinnipiac University
11. Icahn at Mount Sinai
12. Albert Einstein
13. Stony Brook University
14. Hofstra
15. New York Medical College
16. University of Pittsburgh
17. Creighton University
18. Dartmouth (Geisel)
19. Boston University
20. Tufts University
21. Emory University
22. Jefferson (Kimmel)
23. University of Miami
24. Cornell
25. University of Rochester
26. Duke University
27. Case Western Reserve
28. Brown University
29. USF (Morsani)
30. Mayo Clinic (MN)
31. Northwestern Universtiy
32. UChicago
33. University of Virginia
34. WashU St. Louis
35. NYU Long Island
36. Columbia
37. Harvard
38. Johns Hopkins
39. Seton-Hall Hackensack Meridian
40. Tulane University
41. Yale