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Hi there,
I was wondering if I could pick your guys' brains on what to do to strengthen my application for next year.
- 3.69 GPA, 33 MCAT (11 VR, 12 PS, 10 BS)
- Applied 7/1/13, Complete 8/14/13
- Applied to 21 schools through AMCAS, Secondaries from all but 1 (UW, what was I thinking)
- 1 interview invite (pending decision, EDIT: waitlisted on 3/17), 9 silences, 11 rejections
- ECs: 200 clinical volunteer hours, miscellaneous other volunteer experience, 6 months working experience, some shadowing
- LOR: 2 science, 1 research
- The theme of my personal statement was that I became interested in medicine because of my brother who was diagnosed with autism. I explained my research and work experience related to that.
Since applying, I've gotten more shadowing hours as an ED scribe (I had just gotten hired when I applied) and more work experience (Behavior Therapy for kids with autism). At this point, I feel comfortable asking for both a clinical LOR and work related LOR.
I'm just not sure if there are enough changes in my application to warrant another application this time around. Maybe I should take another year off doing stuff to improve my application. But even then I'm not sure what to add. I feel like my numbers are pretty competitive. I'm just at a loss.
Please let me know if there are any red flags I'm totally missing.
I was wondering if I could pick your guys' brains on what to do to strengthen my application for next year.
- 3.69 GPA, 33 MCAT (11 VR, 12 PS, 10 BS)
- Applied 7/1/13, Complete 8/14/13
- Applied to 21 schools through AMCAS, Secondaries from all but 1 (UW, what was I thinking)
- 1 interview invite (pending decision, EDIT: waitlisted on 3/17), 9 silences, 11 rejections
- ECs: 200 clinical volunteer hours, miscellaneous other volunteer experience, 6 months working experience, some shadowing
- LOR: 2 science, 1 research
- The theme of my personal statement was that I became interested in medicine because of my brother who was diagnosed with autism. I explained my research and work experience related to that.
Since applying, I've gotten more shadowing hours as an ED scribe (I had just gotten hired when I applied) and more work experience (Behavior Therapy for kids with autism). At this point, I feel comfortable asking for both a clinical LOR and work related LOR.
I'm just not sure if there are enough changes in my application to warrant another application this time around. Maybe I should take another year off doing stuff to improve my application. But even then I'm not sure what to add. I feel like my numbers are pretty competitive. I'm just at a loss.
Please let me know if there are any red flags I'm totally missing.
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