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[pinkgiraffe1]

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: cGPA: 3.78 sGPA: 3.59 (upward trend)
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts: 511 (130,125,127,129)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): California
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Asian
5. Undergraduate institution or category -
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): medical assistant (3000+ hrs; non-volunteer), autism program (~150 hours; volunteer), hospital volunteer (150 hours), medical brigade (35 hrs; volunteer)
7. Research experience and productivity: 1 publication
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 15 hours- Vascular Surgeon, 30 hours- Internal/Endocrinology
9. Non-clinical volunteering: Soup Kitchen (~100 hours)
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): Fundraising Chair (100hrs), Teaching Assistant (140 hours), Internship Coordinator/Mentor for Remote Research organization (300+ hours)
11. Relevant honors or awards none
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important: Please advise me on the school list and my chances of getting in. DO schools are not listed but I will be applying.

University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson
Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
University of California – Davis School of Medicine
University of California – Irvine School of Medicine
University of California – Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California – Riverside School of Medicine
University of California – San Diego School of Medicine
Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Howard University College of Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Albany Medical College
State University of New York Upstate Medical University Alan and Marlene Norton College of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School

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[Faha]

You have several state public schools on your list that admit few non residents with your stats and no connection to the state. Rush, Georgetown and Loyola are looking for applicants with many hundreds or thousands of hours of non clinical volunteering and Carle is looking for applicants with an engineering background. Howard mainly admits applicants from the African American community. I suggest these schools with your stats:
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
Hackensack
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
Belmont
Tulane
TCU
Creighton
St. Louis
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Rosalind Franklin
Alice Walton (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)
California University
Kaiser
UC Davis
UC Riverside (only if you are from that region)

 

[AJS59]

See if you can squeeze out at least 50 more hours in the soup kitchen to clear the 150 hour screener many schools use

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

OP, you don't give many details, so your success will depend on the mission fit that you have demonstrated from your activities. Nothing disclosed makes me want to interview you.

As it stands, you need to get to 150 hours of service orientation activities, so 50 more hours of soup kitchen work gets you to the minimum. However, many of your schools (Rush, the Jesuits) favor those who have hundreds/thousands more hours showing a true dedication to serving others in the community, not just in a clinical or health context. Consider other activities such as shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation.

As I see your geographic clustering, your DO list should also reflect your geographic preferences:
Midwestern/CCOM for the Chicago area
NYCOM for New York schools
Rowan DO and PCOM for Philly schools
CHSU, Western for California
NOVA DO
MSU DO since you have a few Michigan MD schools on your list