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Hello! I submitted my primary on 6/1 and would appreciate any guidance/feedback on finalizing my school list to 30 schools max.
Demographic: I am 23F Asian American, WA resident, Biology at T50 undergrad.
Stats:
cGPA = 3.92, sGPA = 3.91
MCAT = 514 1st attempt (129/127/128/130) and 522 2nd attempt (131/128/131/132)
Clinical Experience:
Paid
1. 4 years working for a mobile health clinic organization catered toward underserved populations
2. Started working this March as a night shift CNA
3. Worked as a dental assistant my Junior year (800 hours)
1. Volunteered at the Children's Hospital (300 hours)
2. Spent last summer volunteering at a geropsych inpatient unit (50 hours)
3. Patient escort (100 hours)
Research Experience:
250 hours my Senior year in a genetic cancer research lab, no pubs, 1 poster presentation at the university's undergraduate research symposium.
Shadowing
40 hours shadowing doctors/PAs/NPs in a rural WA town (family med)
40 hours in an outpatient family medicine clinic
8 hours in an inpatient family medicine unit
8 hours outpatient pediatric clinic
Non-clinical volunteering
80 hours at the local young adult shelter (ongoing)
Other ECs:
2 quarters teaching (non-TA position)
250 hours President of my university's chapter of a global health organization
80 hours outreach chair at my university's chapter of a youth mental health organization
Listed baking as a hobby
LORs:
2 science professors, one which I taught anatomy with
1 non-science professor
1 from my PI
1 from my supervisor at the mobile health clinic
1 from my dentist (Worked directly with her, but not sure if it would be weird to have a letter from a dentist rather than a physician?)
1 from my volunteer supervisor
Additional Comments
One concern is my low research experience/productivity for top schools. Not because I am necessarily aiming for top schools, but because I feel like my higher stats puts me in an awkward place where lower-tier schools might reject me due to yield protection (though this is just something that I heard and could be misinformed about).
School List: (I understand that this is very top-heavy at the moment and am looking to cut down)
UW
UCSF
Stanford
NYU grossman
Yale
UMich
Northwestern
UPitt
UChicago
Northwestern
Icahn
Emory
Case Western
UCLA
UCSD
UVirginia
Keck
Brown
UMiami
BU
Dartmouth
Rochester
UColorado
Tufts
Georgetown
Jefferson-Kimmel
Wake Forest
Kaiser
UA - Phoenix
Tulane
Temple
Hello! I submitted my primary on 6/1 and would appreciate any guidance/feedback on finalizing my school list to 30 schools max.
Demographic: I am 23F Asian American, WA resident, Biology at T50 undergrad.
Stats:
cGPA = 3.92, sGPA = 3.91
MCAT = 514 1st attempt (129/127/128/130) and 522 2nd attempt (131/128/131/132)
Clinical Experience:
Paid
1. 4 years working for a mobile health clinic organization catered toward underserved populations
2. Started working this March as a night shift CNA
3. Worked as a dental assistant my Junior year (800 hours)
1. Volunteered at the Children's Hospital (300 hours)
2. Spent last summer volunteering at a geropsych inpatient unit (50 hours)
3. Patient escort (100 hours)
Research Experience:
250 hours my Senior year in a genetic cancer research lab, no pubs, 1 poster presentation at the university's undergraduate research symposium.
Shadowing
40 hours shadowing doctors/PAs/NPs in a rural WA town (family med)
40 hours in an outpatient family medicine clinic
8 hours in an inpatient family medicine unit
8 hours outpatient pediatric clinic
Non-clinical volunteering
80 hours at the local young adult shelter (ongoing)
Other ECs:
2 quarters teaching (non-TA position)
250 hours President of my university's chapter of a global health organization
80 hours outreach chair at my university's chapter of a youth mental health organization
Listed baking as a hobby
LORs:
2 science professors, one which I taught anatomy with
1 non-science professor
1 from my PI
1 from my supervisor at the mobile health clinic
1 from my dentist (Worked directly with her, but not sure if it would be weird to have a letter from a dentist rather than a physician?)
1 from my volunteer supervisor
Additional Comments
One concern is my low research experience/productivity for top schools. Not because I am necessarily aiming for top schools, but because I feel like my higher stats puts me in an awkward place where lower-tier schools might reject me due to yield protection (though this is just something that I heard and could be misinformed about).
School List: (I understand that this is very top-heavy at the moment and am looking to cut down)
UW
UCSF
Stanford
NYU grossman
Yale
UMich
Northwestern
UPitt
UChicago
Northwestern
Icahn
Emory
Case Western
UCLA
UCSD
UVirginia
Keck
Brown
UMiami
BU
Dartmouth
Rochester
UColorado
Tufts
Georgetown
Jefferson-Kimmel
Wake Forest
Kaiser
UA - Phoenix
Tulane
Temple
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