WAMC + School List Thread (3.9, ~522)

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OrthoGunner528

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Please don't quote, and also, please provide feedback on how I can improve my app.
I'm a traditional student, applying next cycle (spring 2022) as a Junior. (No Gap years).
  1. GPA: 3.94 sGPA, 3.96 cGPA
  2. MCAT score(s)
    • 522
  3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
    • NY, strong ties to NJ
  4. Ethnicity and/or race
    • Asian - ORM
  5. Undergraduate institution or category
    • Small, unranked private university in NY. (not prestigious at all)
  6. Clinical experience
    • ~ 180 Hours ICU volunteer
    • ~ 700 Hours as an EMT (projected at time of application)
    • ~ 576 Hours as a Medical Scribe (projected at time of application)
  7. Research experience and productivity
    • 500 Hours Undergraduate Organic Chem lab (projected at time of application) - one presentation at conference.
    • 150 Hours Undergraduate Chem lab - 1 publication
    • 25 Hours reviewing journal articles for review paper - 1 publication
  8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
    • 20 Hours Internal Medicine
    • 30 Hours Orthopedic surgeon
    • 25 Hours Psychiatry
  9. Non-clinical volunteering
    • Crisis Counselor (150 Hours - projected at time of application).
    • Volunteer Sports for Special Needs Kids - 85 Hours
  10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    • Started a club on campus designed to teach aspiring health professionals basic and medical Spanish.
  11. Relevant honors or awards
    • Deans list all years of college.
LORs: 2 from science faculty (professors I did research with), 1 from non-science professor.

School List (ADVICE and FEEDBACK NEEDED).
MD Schools (50)
  1. Boston University
  2. Case Western Reserve
  3. Columbia
  4. Hofstra
  5. Duke
  6. Harvard University
  7. Mt. Sinai
  8. NYU Grossman
  9. Johns Hopkins
  10. Mayo Clinic
  11. Northwestern University
  12. Perelman UPenn
  13. Pritzker UChicago
  14. University of Pittsburgh
  15. University of Virginia
  16. Washington University in St. Louis
  17. Cornell
  18. Yale School of Medicine
  19. Geisel Dartmouth
  20. Warren Alpert Brown
  21. Rosalind Franklin Chicago Medical School
  22. Cooper Medical School Rowan
  23. Drexel University
  24. Emory University
  25. Geisinger Commonwealth
  26. Indiana University
  27. Jacobs SUNY Buffalo
  28. Lewis Katz Temple
  29. Loyola Stritch
  30. New York Medical College
  31. Ohio State University
  32. Rush University Medical Center
  33. Rutgers NJMS
  34. Rutgers RWJ
  35. Sidney Kimmel Jefferson
  36. Renaissance Stony Brook
  37. SUNY Downstate
  38. SUNY Upstate
  39. University of Cincinnati
  40. University of Colorado School of Medicine
  41. University of Illinois College of Medicine
  42. University of Maryland | 3.83 | 514
  43. University of Minnesota Medical School
  44. University of Rochester SOM
  45. Albert Einstein COM
  46. Hackensack Meridian
  47. University of Iowa
  48. University of Vermont
  49. Virginia Commonwealth
  50. Albany Medical College

DO Schools: (7)
ROWANSOM
PCOM
MIdwestern CCOM
Touro Middletown
LECOM Erie
LECOM Seton Hill
LECOM Elmira

Note: You may notice I have a lot of Chicago schools - this is where I'd ideally want to go for school, but I'm open to any schools on the East Coast or the Midwest.

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Are you from the Midwest and state schools from your home state.

Include U of Michigan.

You don’t need DO schools.
 

OrthoGunner528

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Are you from the Midwest and state schools from your home state.

Include U of Michigan.

You don’t need DO schools.
Added UMich,
I'm not from the midwest, but I want to apply broadly to max my chances of getting in somewhere (since I know it's getting competitive).
For the DO schools, I don't really want to learn OMM, but again, don't want to take any chances with not getting in anywhere. Are you sure it's prudent to leave them out?
Anyways, thanks for the feedback!
 
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Added UMich,
I'm not from the midwest, but I want to apply broadly to max my chances of getting in somewhere (since I know it's getting competitive).
For the DO schools, I don't really want to learn OMM, but again, don't want to take any chances with not getting in anywhere. Are you sure it's prudent to leave them out?
Anyways, thanks for the feedback!
People with your stats who are not from CA have a good shot at MD programs.

Include Vanderbilt, which loves high stats.

Include all state schools from your home state.
 

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MD Schools (50)
  1. Boston University
  2. Case Western Reserve
  3. Columbia
  4. Hofstra
  5. Duke
  6. Harvard University
  7. Mt. Sinai
  8. NYU Grossman
  9. Johns Hopkins
  10. Mayo Clinic
  11. Northwestern University
  12. Perelman UPenn
  13. Pritzker UChicago
  14. University of Pittsburgh
  15. University of Virginia
  16. Washington University in St. Louis
  17. Cornell
  18. Yale School of Medicine
  19. Geisel Dartmouth
  20. Warren Alpert Brown
  21. Emory University
  22. Jacobs SUNY Buffalo
  23. Lewis Katz Temple
  24. Ohio State University
  25. Sidney Kimmel Jefferson
  26. Renaissance Stony Brook
  27. SUNY Downstate
  28. SUNY Upstate
  29. University of Cincinnati
  30. University of Colorado School of Medicine
  31. University of Illinois College of Medicine
  32. University of MA

  33. University of Rochester SOM
  34. Albert Einstein COM
  35. University of Iowa
  36. University of Vermont
  37. USF/Morsani
  38. UCSF
Stanford
USC
UCLA
BAYLOR
U TX SW
U VA
MY list above.
 
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