WAMC/School List Help

[rary]

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Hello everyone, just wanted to get some advice on my school list
Undergrad GPA: 3.891c, 3.953s

MCAT: 130/130/130/131 total: 521

Demographics: Half Asian half white , female, from CA who will graduate from a mid-tier UC (neuro-science major)

Clinical Experience: 350+ hours volunteer in 2 hospitals with direct patient care opportunities. We rotate through different departments to gain experiences and additional skills

Undergrad Research: 500 hours working in a psychology lab at a UC Medical School. No publications/posters yet, just a lot of research.

Shadowing: 35 hours of shadowing with a pediatric doctor
Non clinical Volunteering:

• 100 hours working at a woman shelter in an underserved area (will continue in gap year)
• 40 hours working at a summer camp for kids who have Muscular Dystrophy
• 40 hours working as a member of Health Fair Committee to provide health care for people with low income

Gap year: plan to continue with research and work part time



MD school list:

In-State: Stanford, UC San Francisco, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UCSD, UC Riverside

Top-Tier: Duke, WashU, Northwestern, Yale, Case Western

Other: Pitt, Sinai, Cornell, Case, Michigan, Emory, Northwestern, USC-Keck, Rochester, Einstein, Hofstra.

I honestly have no idea how competitive I would be for some of these top-tier schools. If anyone has input on that or other mid-tier schools I should consider please let me know

And should I apply to some DO schools also?



Thanks

 

[Frigidcold]

You don't need DO, but should definitely add some low-tier schools to your list. CA is rough.

 

[chzsux]

With your stats, the world is your oyster. Your clinical hours are less impressive than your GPA/MCAT but I think the biggest concern is the nonclinical volunteering. Are any of your service experiences currently ongoing? Because I'd recommend you try to beef up those numbers.

I don't think you have to do DO but you should definitely go heavy on the OOS applications. All of these schools are pretty OOS-friendly (this is not an exhaustive list, just some suggestions)

• VCU
• UVA
• Georgetown (low yield)
• GW (low yield)
• Tulane (low yield)
• Vermont
• Hackensack Meridian
• Cooper
• Colorado
• EVMS
• UCF
• USF

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Presuming as you mentioned you'll continue your community service work with the shelter, just keep going with it (and as mentioned try to add more hours to your activities in this area).

How are your references? Check your compatibility with each school's mission, especially within California (your in-state) and do your homework with the schools on your list. Just be ready to submit on opening day and prep all your secondary essays and interview formats.

 

[rary]

You don't need DO, but should definitely add some low-tier schools to your list. CA is rough.

I worry about yield protected school. Do you have suggestion about low-tier schools that I should add to my list?
Thanks

 

[rary]

With your stats, the world is your oyster. Your clinical hours are less impressive than your GPA/MCAT but I think the biggest concern is the nonclinical volunteering. Are any of your service experiences currently ongoing? Because I'd recommend you try to beef up those numbers.

I don't think you have to do DO but you should definitely go heavy on the OOS applications. All of these schools are pretty OOS-friendly (this is not an exhaustive list, just some suggestions)

• VCU
• UVA
• Georgetown (low yield)
• GW (low yield)
• Tulane (low yield)
• Vermont
• Hackensack Meridian
• Cooper
• Colorado
• EVMS
• UCF
• USF

With your stats, the world is your oyster. Your clinical hours are less impressive than your GPA/MCAT but I think the biggest concern is the nonclinical volunteering. Are any of your service experiences currently ongoing? Because I'd recommend you try to beef up those numbers.

I don't think you have to do DO but you should definitely go heavy on the OOS applications. All of these schools are pretty OOS-friendly (this is not an exhaustive list, just some suggestions)

• VCU
• UVA
• Georgetown (low yield)
• GW (low yield)
• Tulane (low yield)
• Vermont
• Hackensack Meridian
• Cooper
• Colorado
• EVMS
• UCF
• USF

Thank you for your suggestion, I forgot to mention I have about 50 hours volunteer with a hospice. And I plan to continue when I can.

 

[rary]

Presuming as you mentioned you'll continue your community service work with the shelter, just keep going with it (and as mentioned try to add more hours to your activities in this area).

How are your references? Check your compatibility with each school's mission, especially within California (your in-state) and do your homework with the schools on your list. Just be ready to submit on opening day and prep all your secondary essays and interview formats.

Yes, I hope to get into my college's medical school and will focus on that.

 

[rary]

Right now, I spend at least 20hours /week for the research . Should I cut back on that to have more time for non-clinical volunteering?

 

[chzsux]

Right now, I spend at least 20hours /week for the research . Should I cut back on that to have more time for non-clinical volunteering?

Unless you think you can get a paper fully edited, submitted, revised, and accepted by May, then I believe that you should place more commitment on nonclinical volunteering. All schools, even research-heavy ones, place a heavy emphasis on altruism and working with those less fortunate so nonclinical volunteering IMO is more critical at this point.

 

[Faha]

You could add any of these schools to your application:
Vanderbilt
U Virginia
Columbia
Kaiser