WAMC reapp, 3.85/510. Advice please

[RelifeUser]

This is my second gap year. I would like to receive feedback on what I should be doing going forward. I applied this year and may be a reapplicant due to late submission.

1. cGPA/sGPA: 3.85 for both
2. MCAT: 510; 128/124/128/130
3. State: VA
4. Race: Asian
5. School: Top 50 school, Public Ivy
6. Clinical:

• 175 hours at low-income clinic, volunteering as a medical assistant. I assisted the nurse and took vitals/patient documentation. Many were underprivileged, Hispanic patients, and about half did not speak English.
• 450 hours at various children camps with special needs. I know this is grey area in being clinical, but I had some opportunities to assist with daily living activities. I marked this as MME.

7. Research: In my 2nd year at NIH IRTA in a translational lab. Two papers are going to be submitted soon. My PI is pushing me to write a first-author paper before I leave. ~3000 hours by submission. I marked this as MME.
8. Shadowing: 50 hours at internist/pediatrician.
9. Non-clinical volunteering

• 100 hours tutoring in afterschool programs
• 125 hours at my college service organization (lots of volunteering with local organizations. Most are not underserved)
• 50 hours in church childcare

10. Leadership:

• 300 hours as president of my college service organization
• 100 hours with my college Christian ministry with two positions (not board but lower position). I led smaller groups in discussions.
• 600 hours of paid teaching (tutoring at my college tutoring program, summer job working with kids)

11. Awards: I got the highest community service award from a local adult community service organization (Kiwanians) for my service/leadership/fellowship contributions.
12. Others: Nearly all of my hours are pre-COVID (patient interaction, shadowing, and non-clinical). I am worried about recency/continuance of activities.
First year, I didn't do much. Second year, I was studying for MCAT with my full-time job (took longer to study than expected, unfortunately. This year, I started doing some stuff, but not significant in # of hours. This is why I'm really confused and unsure what I should be doing going forward. The above are what is in my application for 2021-22.

For my application in 2022-23,
Nonclinical volunteering I started doing:

• Soup Kitchen for the underprivileged/served, primiarily those suffering from homeless and previous offenders. (maybe 50 hours by application?)
• Crisis Textline (maybe 50 hours by application?)

Clinical (patient interaction):

• Scribing part-time (?) - I recently started at an outpatient clinic and all I've been doing was taking notes without seeing physician/patient interaction. Trainers are doing the same thing - not seeing patients. He said I can come in next week and scribe when he talks to a patient but honestly, I'm not sure if I want to keep doing this job because 1) it's been boring and 2) it's been difficult to focus my efforts in my full-time research job and volunteering. I'll see how it goes this week first but would it better/okay for me to endeavor in clinical volunteering instead? I have been considering either free-clinic or hospice. I'm really looking to do something I enjoy and obtain valuable experiences from. It just seems like everyone has a paid employment and it's making me feel behind...
• I am also looking for doctors to shadow since my last shadowing was four years ago.

I applied late this cycle due to late MCAT and only managed to finish three schools. I accidentally added four other schools too and have incomplete secondaries. I am planning to write ahead of time for the next cycle.

School list for 2021-22:
Submitted schools:

• EVMS (in-state)
• VCU (in-state)
• U of Maryland (I work in Baltimore)

Incomplete secondaries:

• VT (in-state)
• UVA (in-state)
• Georgetown
• George Washington

Thank you for reading this far

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[Faha]

You need to apply in June next year and submit all your secondaries by July. You also need to apply to many more schools.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
UVA
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
George Washington
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
TCU-UNT
Creighton
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Hackensack
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Also apply to DO schools and I suggest these:
VCOM-Virginia
WVSOM
CUSOM
PCOM
Touro-NY
NYITCOM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
DMU-COM
MU-COM

 

[Mr.Smile12]

As a scribe, you are doing more than just shadowing, and is prefer you focus there and choose doctors to work with whenever you can.