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When did you interview? Virtual or on campus? When did you attend their meet and greet information sessions?Hey everyone, obvious throwaway here, so I may have to reapply. I ended up getting 3 IIs as annotated in my school list below. I don’t believe I interviewed poorly as I’ve had numerous people tell me I interview well – my PIs, my undergrad’s prehealth committee, and even two of my interviewers. I’m just wondering what I should do differently this time around if I end up having to reapply and if there are any weakness in my application I should address.
Thank you in advance for the advice everyone! I'll probably delete this post in the next few days btw, since there's a lot of stuff that could make it easy to trace to me.
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.76 cumulative, 3.68 science
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 513 (128/128/129/128)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): NJ, strong ties to NYC and Philadelphia
- Ethnicity and/or race: South Asian male
- Undergraduate institution or category: NYU
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
- ER Medical Scribe (1000 hours completed, 500 more projected, continued as projected). This was one of my most meaningful, and I talked about this a lot as well. I got a ton of exposure to tons of different specialties, patient populations etc.
- Crisis Text Line Counselor: 100 hours completed
- Research experience and productivity:
- Research Specialist: (800 hours, continued as projected as my full-time gap year job, at time of writing well over 2000). This was also one of my most meaningful, and I talked about this a lot and asked about it in all my interviews. No publications yet, but I did present our work in a formal presentation that I listed on AMCAS.
- Undergraduate Research Assistant: 100 hours completed
- Independent Research Project In-Class: 40 hours completed
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented:
- Shadowed my PI: (GI, 0 hours at time of submission of AMCAS, 40 hours projected and completed in July 2023)
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- Assistant Event Coordinator: (20 hours completed, 240 more projected, I completed about 150 total before walking away)
- Home Rebuilding: 48 hours completed
- Handing out Hot Meals to Unhoused Individuals: 50 hours completed
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc):
- Major leadership activity where I led a big project: 3000 hours – this seems like a lot of hours, and this came up in my committee interview, but this was over the span of 2+ years and the daily average, if anything, is on the more conservative side.
- Sales Associate: 150 hours completed
- Relevant honors or awards:
- Nothing huge, just standard: Cum laude graduation honors, University Honors Scholar, Dean’s List
- School List for Current Cycle – looking back I do think it was a little top heavy, but I thought I had the research experience to be competitive:
Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Stanford University School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine - Interviewed here, already got the post-II R
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University
University of Central Florida College of Medicine
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Hackensack Meridian Medical School - Interviewed here, recently waitlisted
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School - Interviewed here, still waiting to hear back, its been 3 months
Rutgers RWJ Medical School
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
New York Medical College
NYU Long Island School of Medicine
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hackensack was mid-November, NJMS on Nov 30, Colorado on Dec 1. All were virtual. Hackensack had their info sessions the same week, whereas NJMS had a Dean's Info Session about a month later in December. Colorado only had one interview day where they also gave info, and I got their rejection just before Christmas.When did you interview? Virtual or on campus? When did you attend their meet and greet information sessions?
What is your mission fit?
Service orientation hours was nearer 100 hours. You need to be at 150 hours to avoid getting screened out. You got three interviews, but this number could still be the anchor that keeps you on a waitlist depending on how the rest of the list goes. Crisis text line doesn't help you as much since it is not in-person.
Your reapp is likely better since you have more documented hours (notably your shadowing hours though i can credit your scribing a little). I'm guessing you have sent updates.