Hello! Thanks for taking the time to look at my school list. I am a first-gen medical school applicant in the Southeast and am willing to take all the constructive input I can get. Since I have financial constraints, I am not able to apply to many schools beyond the 20 waivers I have through the fee assistance program. My academic record isn't perfect but my experience is strong, so it's hard for me to know how much to adhere to traditional metrics.
Stats:
School list
Strong intention to apply:
ECU Brody SOM (in-state)
UNC-Chapel Hill (in-state)
Duke (in-state)
Morehouse
UIllinois Chicago
USC Greenville
Loyola
Georgetown
Penn State
Tufts
Pittsburgh
Ohio State
Rosalind Franklyn - safety?
Albany - safety?
Want to apply but OOS matriculant % is lower
Geisinger Commonwealth (OOS matriculants 40%)
Central Michigan (OOS 20%)
Virginia Tech (OOS 50%, but total class size only 50)
UMinnesota (OOS 20%, but big class size?)
Cooper at Rowan (OOS 35%)
Rutgers (OOS 20%)
UMaryland Baltimore (OOS 30%)
Interested and good match with mission statement, but my MCAT being <25% percentile of school's accepted students makes me question if it's wise to apply:
URochester (my MCAT at ~10th percentile)
UC Keck (~18th percentile)
UCSF (right above 10th percentile)
UCincinnati (10th percentile)
Brown (10th percentile)
Albert Einstein (under 10th percentile)
If you've read this far, thank you for your time!
Stats:
- GPA trends: Community College (GPA 4.0) --> UNC Chapel Hill Biology and Sociology Double major (cGPA 3.3, sGPA 2.69) --> 2 yr Masters in Biology with 38 hrs BCPM and plus 9 hrs of social work (c/sGPA 4.0)
- GPA in sum: across all higher level ed: cGPA: 3.57, sGPA: 3.3
- MCAT 510 (127/127/127/129)
- From rural NC, related passion for uninsured patient populations
- F/Asian
- First-generation physician (to-be)
- Disadvantaged/low SES
- Underserved hometown and current county
- Poor self care habits in undergrad that lowered grades, but learned how to be a whole person and learned how to be happy in the years post-grad/went back for 4.0 Masters
- Strong LORs from academic and clinical experiences
- Paid Lab: 2 yrs/700 hrs
- Ethnographic research project about illness experience: ~70 hrs
- Grant-writing and general membership with global health organization, strong emphasis on equity and sustainable impact: 2yrs/650 hrs
- Rural service-learning project: 144hrs
- Unpaid/non-clinical volunteering at clinic for uninsured patients: 3yrs/780hrs
- Community-based service job 520 hrs
- Shadowing with uninsured populations: 120hrs
- Direct patient care as MA: 2300hrs
- Teaching experience: 4 semesters of paid biology lab instruction: 839hrs
- University presentation on biopsychosocial model of care
- Artistic endevours: Made health-related podcast and training module for PCPs
School list
Strong intention to apply:
ECU Brody SOM (in-state)
UNC-Chapel Hill (in-state)
Duke (in-state)
Morehouse
UIllinois Chicago
USC Greenville
Loyola
Georgetown
Penn State
Tufts
Pittsburgh
Ohio State
Rosalind Franklyn - safety?
Albany - safety?
Want to apply but OOS matriculant % is lower
Geisinger Commonwealth (OOS matriculants 40%)
Central Michigan (OOS 20%)
Virginia Tech (OOS 50%, but total class size only 50)
UMinnesota (OOS 20%, but big class size?)
Cooper at Rowan (OOS 35%)
Rutgers (OOS 20%)
UMaryland Baltimore (OOS 30%)
Interested and good match with mission statement, but my MCAT being <25% percentile of school's accepted students makes me question if it's wise to apply:
URochester (my MCAT at ~10th percentile)
UC Keck (~18th percentile)
UCSF (right above 10th percentile)
UCincinnati (10th percentile)
Brown (10th percentile)
Albert Einstein (under 10th percentile)
If you've read this far, thank you for your time!
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