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[Mr.Smile12]

You don't need to apply to 50 schools, but your service orientation (food distribution) is under 150 hours (maybe we could add the 300 hours of clinically-related food distribution??? I need to see the description), so your file may be screened out at most schools. If you intend to apply to brand-name programs, you should have 250 hours before submitting your application. I don't pay attention to activities with fewer than 50 hours (shadowing excepted).

I'm not sure if your artistic endeavors count as leadership. Who did you manage? Otherwise, the descriptions sound more like teaching. Maybe the entrepreneurship of running your own business (employment), but not sure about the other studio work.

Why did you have a strong interest in your bolded schools? How do you intend to leverage your artistic experiences to your medical education?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

thanks for the insight! I'll try to get more hours in at the food banks. Do the other activities not count for non-clinical? The clinically related food distribution is still in the hospital (just delivering meals to patients). Are there any schools I should definitely cut given my hours are on the lower end?\

If it were just me (instead of trying to act like an admissions committee), I would give you credit for delivering meals and transporting patients in a clinical environment. Not every adcom sees it the same way: you are interacting with patients, though you aren't serving a physician's role. You should classify this as a clinical activity, though some adcoms may also credit you with a non-clinical activity in a clinical setting (like you are maintenance/janitorial in a hospital).

Many service-oriented schools like to see applicants with hundreds of hours of service orientation activities, especially outside a clinical setting.

I lead a group of 8-10 students and we illustrate a whole book from start to finish so it requires lots of organization and making sure everyone is on top of things to get it done, making sure our illustrations are cohesive and align with the manuscript, settings deadlines and tasks. I feel that I very much do a lot of leading and directing in this role.

How is that different from being a music director for a choir or the cast of a high school musical?

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools from your list:
All the UCs (exclude Riverside unless you are from that region)
- Stanford
- Kaiser
- CUSM
- BU
- Tufts
- UMass-Chan
- University of Pittsburgh
- SKMC
- Rochester
- Albany
- Albert Einstein
- Icahn Mount Sinai
- NYMC
- NYU Long Island
- Cornell
- Emory
- Dartmouth
- VCU
- UVA
- Vandy
- Duke
- Wake Forest
- UA Phoenix
- Case Western
- UCinci
- Ohio State
- Vermont
- MC Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin
- Yale
- Drexel
- Quinnipiac-netter
- Loyola
- Northwestern
- Wayne State
- Western Michigan Stryker