MD WAMC/School List Help

[medapplying531]

hi

 

[Mr.Smile12]

So what are you looking for in the schools you ultimately want to attend? You have a solid application, but I don't see anything that compels me to want to interview you. How did your non-clinical volunteering support a refugee community? Peer advisor and tutoring go into a different bucket, so how many hours did you actually help the refugee community? You may wind up needing more non-clinical community service, depending on hours and duties.

 

[Faha]

Remove Carle since they are looking for applicants with an engineering background. You could add Temple, Cincinnati, Dartmouth, Tufts, Saint Louis, Northwestern, Cornell, Duke

 

[medapplying531]

hi

 

[Faha]

Hi, is my statistics background not enough for Carle? I didn't do any formal statistics research per say, but did do a public health statistical modeling project for a class and also took a data analysis class.

No, they are looking for an engineering background and they have a small class.

 

[medapplying531]

hi

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I would love a school that has plenty of research opportunities. Not sure what specialty I want to do, but want to keep my options open. As for volunteering with refugees, I don't want to go into too much detail for privacy, but it was 150 hours in total.
Also, I thought that any volunteering or service-related activities that are not clinical could be classified as non-clinical volunteering, so would peer advisor and tutoring not count? Or, is it only traditional volunteering like soup kitchen, homeless shelter, etc?

There is a separate category for tutoring/mentoring/teaching. Unless you become certified as a teacher, most traditional prehealth applicants' teaching experience, regardless of the audience, goes into this category.

If you want a school with many research opportunities, why not just pursue a Ph.D. at a medical school? What do you consider research opportunities you want to do?