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[max82456]

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[Mr.Smile12]

Street medicine volunteer - 20 hours
Stroke camp volunteer - 72 hours

Please describe what you did and why you list these activities as clinical.

Tutoring will be in a different category and does not show service orientation.

 

[Faha]

The schools you have italics are state public schools that admit very few non residents with your MCAT of 511 and no non clinical volunteering and no connection to the state. I suggest these schools from your list:
University of Wisconsin
MCW
Wake Forest
Tufts
Thomas Jefferson
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac
George Washington
Georgetown
Virginia Commonwealth
Temple
Rush
Albany
Drexel
Rosalind Franklin
Saint Louis
Hackenshack
Creighton
Vermont
Wayne State
Penn State
Tulane
Loyola
Oakland
TCU
East Virgina

 

[candbgirl]

Remove Rush. They expect(and get) hundreds if not thousands of hours of service hours from their applicants. You seem to have no nonclinical volunteering.
Actually the lack of service hours will be an issue at several of schools on your list -Loyola, Creighton, St. Louis, Georgetown- and probably more.

 

[max82456]

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[theoceanman]

Street medicine volunteer - mostly handing out supplies to the homeless, connecting them to community services, and occasionally providing first aid
Stroke camp volunteer - assist stroke survivors with participating in activities, set up and provide feed assistance during meals; also set up a local fundraiser for the next year's camp to lower camper's fees

Should I keep these as clinical or are they more nonclinical? If I were to categorize them as more non-clinical volunteering, would be an issue if I only have paid clinical experience and no clinical volunteering

Also, I'm confused on why volunteering as a tutor isn't considered non-clinical volunteering. What category would tutoring be considered?

Tutoring would go under the teaching category and oftentimes considered an over-saturation in terms of applicants that have tutoring in their CV (literally everyone has over a hundred hours of tutoring on their application). You want more community service hours such as Food Bank, Crisis centers, etc. Aim to get at least 100-150 hours or you may be filtered out at most MD schools.

Also, your shadowing hours are “iffy” in terms of being not as primary care focused so I would aim to add more hours, pushing closer to 100 hours total to that as well, but should not be as big of a priority as your lack of service hours.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Should I keep these as clinical or are they more nonclinical?

As described, both activities do not soiclinical, but fundraising is not volunteering.

My church makes and distributes hygiene bags for the homeless, for example. Get more experience here. The people you benefit are not patients.

Many applicants are camp volunteers at special programs catering to different groupspatient's.

Tutoring shows academic competency, not service orientation.

As mentioned, you are still very short on community service showing service orientation.

 

[chilly_md]

Street medicine volunteer - mostly handing out supplies to the homeless, connecting them to community services, and occasionally providing first aid
Stroke camp volunteer - assist stroke survivors with participating in activities, set up and provide feed assistance during meals; also set up a local fundraiser for the next year's camp to lower camper's fees

Should I keep these as clinical or are they more nonclinical? If I were to categorize them as more non-clinical volunteering, would be an issue if I only have paid clinical experience and no clinical volunteering

Also, I'm confused on why volunteering as a tutor isn't considered non-clinical volunteering. What category would tutoring be considered?

I would not even include the street medicine activity if it was only for 20 hours. It comes across as something you did for a couple weekends for about a month.

 

[max82456]

Thank you everyone for the advice! With my current activities and stats, should I apply to DO schools as well? My current issue is I do not have a DO letter of rec, but I do have knowledge of the difference between DO and MD.

 

[theoceanman]

Thank you everyone for the advice! With my current activities and stats, should I apply to DO schools as well? My current issue is I do not have a DO letter of rec, but I do have knowledge of the difference between DO and MD.

You will not require an LOR from a DO physician for most DO schools, although you may need a physician LOR in general for many DO schools. Although your current CV and resume is generally alright and should get you several II's, if you really are set on getting in somewhere this cycle, DO is also something you should consider while applying.

Places such as PCOM (all campuses), LECOM (all campuses), DMU, etc. are potential DO schools that you should consider.

 

[max82456]

I suggest these schools from your list:
University of Wisconsin
MCW
Wake Forest
Tufts
Thomas Jefferson
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac
George Washington
Georgetown
Virginia Commonwealth
Temple
Rush
Albany
Drexel
Rosalind Franklin
Saint Louis
Hackenshack
Creighton
Vermont
Wayne State
Penn State
Tulane
Loyola
Oakland
TCU
East Virgina

I am at the 10th percentile for my MCAT score for Hackenshack in the latest MSAR. Would I still be a competitive applicate if my MCAT is in the school's 10th percentile for accepted students?

 

[theoceanman]

I am at the 10th percentile for my MCAT score for Hackenshack in the latest MSAR. Would I still be a competitive applicate if my MCAT is in the school's 10th percentile for accepted students?

You could add places such as NYMC instead, but it might have been chosen because of your GPA.

 

[chilly_md]

I am at the 10th percentile for my MCAT score for Hackenshack in the latest MSAR. Would I still be a competitive applicate if my MCAT is in the school's 10th percentile for accepted students?

What are the 25th percentile and median? They may have a narrow range.

 

[Faha]

I am at the 10th percentile for my MCAT score for Hackenshack in the latest MSAR. Would I still be a competitive applicate if my MCAT is in the school's 10th percentile for accepted students?

You have a high GPA so it is worth applying to.

 

[max82456]

What are the 25th percentile and median? They may have a narrow range.

Yes they have a narrow range, the 25th percentile is 513 and the median is 515.

 

[theoceanman]

Yes they have a narrow range, the 25th percentile is 513 and the median is 515.

Then you're fine