WAMC — 517/3.9GPA — CA Resident

[dr_dong]

I have been in a deep funk for the past couple months and it just dawned on me that May is around the corner and my procrastination has put me in yet another pickle. I want to know what parts of my application it's realistic for me to improve in the coming months.

• 3.9 cGPA, 3.9 sGPA — CA state school, CA resident
• MCAT — 518 (128/129/131/130)
  
  
• Ethnicity — ORM — East Asian
  
  
• Clinical experience
  • EMT-B — 2000+ hours
  • Hospital Volunteer — 350 hours
• Research experience
  • Research Assistant, Neuroscience Lab — ~800 hours
• Shadowing experience and specialties represented
  — None — working on it
• Non-clinical volunteering
  • Habitat for Humanity — 50 hours
  • Soup Kitchen — 100 hours
    
• Negligible honors or awards

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[Faha]

You need 40+ hours of in person physician shadowing before you submit your application. Ideally, you should submit your application no later than the end of July. I suggest these schools with your stats:
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Tufts
Albany
Rochester
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
New York Medical College
Hackensack
Pittsburgh
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
George Washington
U Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Duke
Wake Forest
USF Morsani
Miami
TCU
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
U Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Ohio State
Cincinnati
California University
Kaiser
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
The UCs (except Riverside unless you are from that region)

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Work on that procrastination. And I don't mean starting tomorrow.

I don't see mission fit.

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[Sandman23]

Imo, you can easily get shadowing hours through. If you start in April & go on until July, you're good brospehus. 40+ hours min like Faha said but it shouldn't be in 1 month either. Main concern imo is volunteering & # of experiences. Are these ALL the experiences you'd list on an AMCAS or AACOMAS app?

That said, dw if you don't have explicitly killer activities. The writing does it all. Titles of your activities are not even a quarter of the magic. Killer activities have killer stories. That's easier when the activity lends itself to some solid stories but you can still take away lessons from your experiences that can then become stories, whether volunteering for a soup kitchen or founding one.