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Demographics

Rising senior at a t50 undergrad, no gap year. ORM, Virginia resident

Stats

3.96 overall gpa, 3.98 science gpa / 521 mcat

EC's

shadowing- ~100 hours across several specialties (including family med)

paid clinical work: ~450 hours as an ER tech, lots of patient interaction. responsibilities including patient care, IV starts, EKG, transporting

volunteering: ~25 hours clinical, ~70 nonclinical at a soup kitchen

research: ~70 hrs surface level research in an undergrad lab at college, no pubs/presentations over 2 years. Joining another lab during senior year and stated this on app

included projected hours for everything

Recommendation letters: 6 including professors, premed advisor, manager at work, doctor I shadowed

School list: all MD, feedback on this would be much appreciated as well

|| || |Albert einstein| |boston university| |EVMS| |emory| |dartmouth| |GW| |georgetown| |hackensack meridian| |new york medical college| |keck| |loyola| |penn state| |brown| |tufts| |tulane| |UCSD| |UCSF| |UCF| |UMD| |Miami| |Pitt| |UVA| |VCU| |VT| |wake forest| |case western| |cornell| |rochester| |USF| |duke| |johns hopkins| |vanderbilt| |chicago| |washington university| |california northstate| |kimmel| |rosalind franklin| |hofstra| |colorado| |nova southeastern|

 

[Faha]

Your low non clinical volunteering hours will limit your chances for interviews since some schools screen at 150 hours. Accumulate another 100+ hours at the soup kitchen in case you need to reapply.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
George Washington
Jefferson
Hackensack
Hofstra
New York Medical College
Vermont
Tufts
UMass
Rochester
Western Michigan
Cincinnati
Iowa
Washington University (in St. Louis)
TCU
USF Morsani
Miami
Wake Forest
Colorado
Vanderbilt
U Maryland
Ohio State

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Your research hours also seem lower than I would expect. That with your lack of service orientation activities (only 70 soup kitchen hours) puts your application at risk of getting screened out at many schools that may want applicants with more research background but share similar metrics to yours. Furthermore, if you included projected hours in the description above, you may be more at risk of getting screened out.

 

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Your research hours also seem lower than I would expect. That with your lack of service orientation activities (only 70 soup kitchen hours) puts your application at risk of getting screened out at many schools that may want applicants with more research background but share similar metrics to yours. Furthermore, if you included projected hours in the description above, you may be more at risk of getting screened out.

The hours I mentioned are excluding projected