WAMC/School List thread (3.7, 514)

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DO NOT QUOTE PLEASE

1. cGPA and sGPA
   1. cGPA - 3.75
   2. sGPA - 3.67
   3. Upward trend from freshman to sophomore year. Then up and down since then (4.0 - 3.5)
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown
   1. 514 (129, 125, 132, 128)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
   1. NYC Resident
4. Ethnicity and/or race
   1. ORM (Asian-Indian)S
5. Undergraduate institution or category
   1. T50 in Boston
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   1. Medical Scribe (220 hours) *
   2. Birth Registrar on the postpartum floor (200 hours)
   3. Radiology Tech Aide (150 hours) - will be continuing into my gap year
   4. EMT (0 hours) - Will be working as an EMT over my gap year and in the process of getting certified so won't be in my primary but maybe an update down the road?
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. Center For Drug Discovery - Jr. Lab Assistant (360 hours) - Abstract publication and poster for one project (never presented cause of covid Pending publication for another project where I am the second author
   2. Radiology Lab - Research Assistant (1200 hours) - Co-author on publication and poster presentation *
   3. Biotechnology Company - Analytical Development Associate (1100 hours) - No publications or presentations since everything was confidential due to ongoing trials, just company wide presentations I was part of.
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. Interventional Radiology - 18 hours
   2. Diagnostic Radiology - 8 hours
   3. Electrophysiology -12 hours
   4. Nephrology - 80 hours
      
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. Charitable Organization in NYC giving medically tailored meals to ill residents unable to cook for themselves - 131 hours
   2. Homeless shelter where I worked in an art studio with an art therapist - 100 hours *
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. TA for lab class centered around undergraduate students leading their own research projects
    2. An author for a chapter in a book that explores nutritional content of ethnic recipes to be used as a reference for people with kidney disease. I got this opportunity from the nephrologist I shadowed who also happens to be an adcom at a school Im applying to. I have a LOR from the physician I worked on this project with.
    3. Community outreach during the pandemic in NYC. Led an effort to raise couple thousand $ which was used to create resource bags that included hygiene products, covid test kits, non-perishable food etc that was given out to people in the community
    4. Tutored high school students in AP Chemistry
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Deans list except I don't have space to put this in my activities list because Im at 15
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important
    1. Graduated in December 2022 and currently working as a Radiology Tech Aide on my gap year and will be getting a job as an EMT or MA soon.
    2. The beginning of my gap year got sort of delayed due to a cancer diagnosis in my family for which I have been responsible for coordinating treatments for all that jazz. Wrote about this in the Other Impactful Experience essay.

* = Most meaningful and have LORs from them as well.

Interested in staying on the East Coast, but will literally go anywhere for a medical education. Geography is not an issue as long as its reasonable. Hoping to add some more schools to the list. NYC resident, attended a SUNY for one year before transferring to a school in Boston. Have family ties to VA as well.

School List :

All 4 SUNYs
Hoftsra
NYULI
Albert Einstein
Weill Cornell - (Reach but have ties to the school, participated in a summer program here that sparked my interest in medicine)
Albany Medical College
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac
Umass
Tufts
Penn State
Geisinger
Hackensack
Rutgers RWJMS
EVMS
VCU
V-Tech
Georgetown
George Washington
Temple
Sydney Kimmel Thomas Jefferson
Wake Forest
Dartmouth


DOs:
NYITCOM
PCOM
UNECOM
Touro - NY

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Remove Geisinger, Rutgers and VTech since they admit few applicants with no connection to the state or region.
You could add these schools:
Vermont
Drexel
NOVA MD
TCU
Creighton
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont

 

[AccuracyTips]

@Goro Any input? Thank you!

 

[Goro]

I don't think that you need DO schools on the list.

Delete VA Tech

Cornell is a donation

Add:
UCSF
PITT
TUFTS
EMORY
BROWN

 

[AccuracyTips]

hat you need DO schools on the list.

Remove Geisinger, Rutgers and VTech since they admit few applicants with no connection to the state or region.
You could add these schools:
Vermont
Drexel
NOVA MD
TCU
Creighton
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont

Thank you for the insight

 

[AccuracyTips]

I don't think that you need DO schools on the list.

Delete VA Tech

Cornell is a donation

Add:
UCSF
PITT
TUFTS
EMORY
BROWN

Thank you for the insight. Yeah Cornell is a donation, I agree but still plan to shoot my shot. Debating on DO schools at this point, really would like to avoid a reapp.

 

[Goro]

Thank you for the insight. Yeah Cornell is a donation, I agree but still plan to shoot my shot. Debating on DO schools at this point, really would like to avoid a reapp.

Cornell doesn't need the donation. Take your dad out to dinner for Father's day instead

 

[Goro]

Add Wayne State to list as well