alhazenmanawi
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On numbers, your hours are right near the threshold for me. The issue is going to be balance. You take a lot of initiative (which is good), but you don't seem to take a lot of time with the people you are serving from the description unless it's tutoring where you are coming in as a leader or subject matter expert. I would still work on more hours to be better on par with the rest of your applicant pool. In short, actions are great... but can (not must, in your case) show more stamina and willingness to be immersed in those issues.Are the clinical and non-clinical hour numbers too low to be competitive at the schools below?
Thank you! Do you think it would be wise to replace some of the latter schools with schools like Illinois, Vermont, Wayne State, St. Louis, Hofstra, Temple or Drexel, or would I be risking yield protection? All good schools I am interested in and seem to have decent out-of-state acceptance rates for students at my school. Already have a lot and don't want to apply to more than 40.I would maybe subtract Georgetown (might yield protect, and the commitment to service doesn't square the best with your profile) but otherwise the list looks solid.
Thank you for responding. I would likely be unable to get many more non clinical hours at this point, though I hope to greatly supplement it in my gap year and discuss this in my secondaries+interviews.Fyi tutoring is not non clinical hours. I would try to get some more non clinical hours if you can. There's a separate selection on AMCAS for tutoring/teaching
You can label tutoring kids for free as volunteer, non-clinical or as tutoring. It is your choice. You might not call it leadership unless you were leading a group of tutors (peer leader).
Many adcom members put a high value on service to others, particularly service to those who are not able to help themselves. Medicine is a service industry and the service is to all strata of society so having experience with the people you might not meet in everyday life and that you will care for as a student and resident (little to no choice in who you serve as a trainee, more when you are a practitioner) is important.
Just as you might get away with having a healthy offspring despite smoking, drinking and eating junk food, you might get into medical school without non-clinical volunteering but you might sleep better at night knowing you've done your best to assure a good outcome.
Take a look at the MSAR and see which schools get over 10K applications. Look at the MCAT/GPA stats to determine yield protection possibilities. Mission fit dictates your success.Thank you! Do you think it would be wise to replace some of the latter schools with schools like Illinois, Vermont, Wayne State, St. Louis, Hofstra, Temple or Drexel, or would I be risking yield protection? All good schools I am interested in and seem to have decent out-of-state acceptance rates for students at my school. Already have a lot and don't want to apply to more than 40.