WAMC?

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[wysdoc]

Have you finished your postbac program?
If you have, you can really work on filling up your time with the non-academic activities you need to be prepared for applying.
Projected hours are not meaningful to the admissions committee, so the hours you have completed by May 2026 will be the important ones.
Try for shadowing (40 hours) Community service non-medical volunteering (150 hours)
I think your COVID testing and vaccine administration hours can count for clinical activities
Holding a pharmacy job also shows responsibility in a related-to-medicine field.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Where did you grow up in Georgia for most of your childhood/life?

What are you doing as a scribe? (You can reasonably claim 50 hours of scribing as physician shadowing, since you have so many hours already in place... right?)

I'm also good with your COVID and pharmacy experience, but you must balance that with hospital-based experiences. Otherwise, it appears to me that pharmacy is your backup.

I'm worried about all your hypothetical/projected hours; I feel like you're shooting for a best-case scenario by checking boxes since you haven't done the work already. That's going to affect your chances. What is your purpose as a physician? What you have written (and likely will delete) gives me a sense you only care about getting into a medical school.

I commiserate with taking care of a chronically ill cat, but it's only worth mentioning in a VMCAS application.

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
Medical College Georgia
Mercer
Georgia (Athens-new school)
NOVA MD
Belmont
Methodist
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Hackensack
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Ponce (St. Louis)
St. Louis
Creighton
TCU
Alice Walton
Roseman
Tulane

 

[suspicious bagel]

Have you finished your postbac program?
If you have, you can really work on filling up your time with the non-academic activities you need to be prepared for applying.
Projected hours are not meaningful to the admissions committee, so the hours you have completed by May 2026 will be the important ones.
Try for shadowing (40 hours) Community service non-medical volunteering (150 hours)
I think your COVID testing and vaccine administration hours can count for clinical activities
Holding a pharmacy job also shows responsibility in a related-to-medicine field.

I should have been more clear, other than the shadowing hours I'm on track to get the rest of the hours I listed as "projected" by the time I apply. I'm wrapping up my post-bacc this semester, and it looks like I'm going to keep the 4.0 for what it's worth. Thank you.

 

[wysdoc]

I should have been more clear, other than the shadowing hours I'm on track to get the rest of the hours I listed as "projected" by the time I apply. I'm wrapping up my post-bacc this semester, and it looks like I'm going to keep the 4.0 for what it's worth. Thank you.

OK that looks great.
When most SDN posters say "projected hours" they mean what they intend to do after submitting.

 

[suspicious bagel]

Where did you grow up in Georgia for most of your childhood/life?

What are you doing as a scribe? (You can reasonably claim 50 hours of scribing as physician shadowing, since you have so many hours already in place... right?)

I'm also good with your COVID and pharmacy experience, but you must balance that with hospital-based experiences. Otherwise, it appears to me that pharmacy is your backup.

I'm worried about all your hypothetical/projected hours; I feel like you're shooting for a best-case scenario by checking boxes since you haven't done the work already. That's going to affect your chances. What is your purpose as a physician? What you have written (and likely will delete) gives me a sense you only care about getting into a medical school.

I commiserate with taking care of a chronically ill cat, but it's only worth mentioning in a VMCAS application.

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[suspicious bagel]

OK that looks great.
When most SDN posters say "projected hours" they mean what they intend to do after submitting.

Yeah, lesson learned. Thanks again.

 

[suspicious bagel]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
Medical College Georgia
Mercer
Georgia (Athens-new school)
NOVA MD
Belmont
Methodist
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Hackensack
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Ponce (St. Louis)
St. Louis
Creighton
TCU
Alice Walton
Roseman
Tulane

You're awesome, thank you.