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Hi alI am hoping for potential good take by someone familiar with the app process and chances- it seems without a pretty high MCAT, chances of getting into schools seem low. But I feel as if I have planned my last 4 years well, choosing volunteer experiences, research experiences and jobs that reflect what I am passionate about, and how it ties into medicine. I would love opinions on my thought process and maybe opinions on what schools I'll have a good chance at
Age: 22, Middle Eastern ORM
GPA: 3.87 cum, 3.81 sci,
MCAT: 503
Major: Biomedical sciences with a minor in Philosophy
School : Community college (2 years), Sacramento State (2 years)
State: CA
Clinical Work Experience
Sutter Medical Scribe in Emergency Department 600 hours 1 year
Non clinical Work experience
Green Acres Plant Nursery
- Helped in organizing, sale of outdoor patio vegetables, required knowledge of all the veggies etc (6 months 350 hours)
"Tutor" Sacramento State
-Its actually called Peer Assisted Facilitator, but its really tutoring in a fancy way. (8 months) 140 hours
The Tutoring Center (Child tutoring)
-1 on 1 tutoring with children k-8 (5 months) 300 hours
Shadowing
65 hours of Internist shadowing
15 hours of out patient clinical shadowing
6 letters of rec,
2 professors 4 doctors
Research
Community College Research
-First student in brand new research team, very small, not very complex research- just focused on developing methods to extract coffee granules after brewing 11 months
Volunteering Clinical
UC Davis Medical Center Volunteer (11 months) 150 hours
-PACU and HENT department, regular boring volunteer stuff with some unique patient interactions
Volunteer Non clinical
Alchemist Farmers Market Volunteer
-Worked on distribution of EBT dollars (food stamps) to low income individuals so they get access to healthy local produce (2 years, 6 months) probably 52 hours
Food Bank Warehouse Volunteer
-Unload and load large amounts of food, distribute bags of food, clean warehouse, organize donated clothes, to low income individuals (7 months) 125 hours
Community Kitchen Volunteer
-Created and taught healthy recipes to all types of people, free local kitchen on the second floor of a popular co-op grocery store (4 months) 70 hours
Food Literacy Center Volunteer
-Worked in groups with children, cooking WITH them, teaching them about the benefits of fruits and veggies as an after school program in low income areas specifically (2 years 6 months) 20 hours
Organizations
-MAPS (Minority Association of Premedical Students) officer
-AMSA (American medical student association) officer
WFPB club Whol food plant based club president, founder at 3 college campuses
A bit more info:
Everything I do is around food, specifically access to healthy eating for all. This is important to me, and will be mentioned in my personal statement as I suffered from major medical issues at a young age due to insane obesity. Interactions with my doctor had influenced me to pursue medicine over the years due to the tremendous change that medicine and living more healthy can do; its simple but it means a lot to me, and I try to reflect that in my "package". I come from a family that is fairly well off, divorced and quite disconnected, but I never struggled with money even though I went to community college then a state school. My family had drug addiction issues which GREATLY influences my approach to my volunteer experiences, and general outlook on life.
Spanish proficiency: Plan to become fluent within the next 2 years for conversing.
Other cool stuff I am going to add: I run a local community garden, anyone is welcome to plant or take food as long- free of charge. I work on it once a week in the country side (I live in a rural area)
Where I want to go to med school: Anywhere, really. I would love to do DO, I would love to do MD. I plan to practice family medicine due to its preventative aspect, so I think this makes it easier to get into schools that are primary care focused.
Thank you to whoever reads this. I am getting pretty apathetic and burnt out through this process, and would love some insight
This is my current list
CHSU-COM
TUCOM -CA
WesternU/COMP – Northwest – Lebanon, OR
WesternU/COMP – Pomona, CA
ATSU - KCOM
ATSU - SOMA
KCU-COM
DMU
KCU
LECOM (PA)
MU-COM
PNW-COM
VCOM - VIRGINIA
MSUCOM
Age: 22, Middle Eastern ORM
GPA: 3.87 cum, 3.81 sci,
MCAT: 503
Major: Biomedical sciences with a minor in Philosophy
School : Community college (2 years), Sacramento State (2 years)
State: CA
Clinical Work Experience
Sutter Medical Scribe in Emergency Department 600 hours 1 year
Non clinical Work experience
Green Acres Plant Nursery
- Helped in organizing, sale of outdoor patio vegetables, required knowledge of all the veggies etc (6 months 350 hours)
"Tutor" Sacramento State
-Its actually called Peer Assisted Facilitator, but its really tutoring in a fancy way. (8 months) 140 hours
The Tutoring Center (Child tutoring)
-1 on 1 tutoring with children k-8 (5 months) 300 hours
Shadowing
65 hours of Internist shadowing
15 hours of out patient clinical shadowing
6 letters of rec,
2 professors 4 doctors
Research
Community College Research
-First student in brand new research team, very small, not very complex research- just focused on developing methods to extract coffee granules after brewing 11 months
Volunteering Clinical
UC Davis Medical Center Volunteer (11 months) 150 hours
-PACU and HENT department, regular boring volunteer stuff with some unique patient interactions
Volunteer Non clinical
Alchemist Farmers Market Volunteer
-Worked on distribution of EBT dollars (food stamps) to low income individuals so they get access to healthy local produce (2 years, 6 months) probably 52 hours
Food Bank Warehouse Volunteer
-Unload and load large amounts of food, distribute bags of food, clean warehouse, organize donated clothes, to low income individuals (7 months) 125 hours
Community Kitchen Volunteer
-Created and taught healthy recipes to all types of people, free local kitchen on the second floor of a popular co-op grocery store (4 months) 70 hours
Food Literacy Center Volunteer
-Worked in groups with children, cooking WITH them, teaching them about the benefits of fruits and veggies as an after school program in low income areas specifically (2 years 6 months) 20 hours
Organizations
-MAPS (Minority Association of Premedical Students) officer
-AMSA (American medical student association) officer
WFPB club Whol food plant based club president, founder at 3 college campuses
A bit more info:
Everything I do is around food, specifically access to healthy eating for all. This is important to me, and will be mentioned in my personal statement as I suffered from major medical issues at a young age due to insane obesity. Interactions with my doctor had influenced me to pursue medicine over the years due to the tremendous change that medicine and living more healthy can do; its simple but it means a lot to me, and I try to reflect that in my "package". I come from a family that is fairly well off, divorced and quite disconnected, but I never struggled with money even though I went to community college then a state school. My family had drug addiction issues which GREATLY influences my approach to my volunteer experiences, and general outlook on life.
Spanish proficiency: Plan to become fluent within the next 2 years for conversing.
Other cool stuff I am going to add: I run a local community garden, anyone is welcome to plant or take food as long- free of charge. I work on it once a week in the country side (I live in a rural area)
Where I want to go to med school: Anywhere, really. I would love to do DO, I would love to do MD. I plan to practice family medicine due to its preventative aspect, so I think this makes it easier to get into schools that are primary care focused.
Thank you to whoever reads this. I am getting pretty apathetic and burnt out through this process, and would love some insight
This is my current list
CHSU-COM
TUCOM -CA
WesternU/COMP – Northwest – Lebanon, OR
WesternU/COMP – Pomona, CA
ATSU - KCOM
ATSU - SOMA
KCU-COM
DMU
KCU
LECOM (PA)
MU-COM
PNW-COM
VCOM - VIRGINIA
MSUCOM
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I have already considered Davis and its my dream MD school. I was considering others but I have no connection with them tbh. Thank you for your reply. Nice to see you again a few months later than my prior post.
