WAMC/School List 3.54/512 Music Major

[Bavestry]

cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS:

• sGPA: 3.53 cGPA: 3.55​
• I graduated high school with my Associate's with a 2.52 sGPA and a 3.05 cGPA. Since then my sGPA has been a 4.0 every semester and cGPA has been 3.9. I don't think this will negatively impact my chances but let me know what you think.​

MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 512 (128/128/129/127)
State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): Utah
Ethnicity and/or race: White, male
Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):

• From August 2019-present I have about 80 hours of English-Spanish translating experience at a free clinic in my city that serves the uninsured. I know this is not a lot, how much of a problem will this be?

Research experience and productivity: 120 hours research with the anthropology department

Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 28 hours shadowing plastic surgeon, pathologist, urologist. Also not a lot. I had three more lined up until COVID ruined that.

Non-clinical volunteering:

• From 2015-2017 I served a mission for my church in El Salvador. This consisted of going around all day every day teaching people about Jesus Christ and trying to help and serve them in any way, from chopping down trees and firewood to helping them overcome alcohol and drug abuse.
• For six months I volunteered as an English as a second language tutor at a school for adult education and this totaled to about 40 hours.
• From 2019-2020 I volunteered as a tutor at a government-subsidized apartment building where the majority of people are refugees. This time was spent either reading to young children to help them with their english, and tutoring some older members of the community in english. 60 hours

Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)

• I TAd for two biology courses for a few hundred hours.
• I am a piano performance major. I'm not sure how much this will really matter to admissions committees, but I feel it has given me a different perspective during my studies so far.

Any suggestions on the school list would be helpful. So far I've just been picking based on GPA and MCAT. With a 512, what range of median MCAT scores (+/- what from my score) should I be applying to? Hofstra has a median of 517 so I think it may be a long shot.

School list:
Hofstra
Tufts
Thomas Jefferson
Utah
Netter
George Washington
Wake Forest
Rosalind
Drexel
Lewis Katz
New York
Albany
Nova
Seton Hill
Wisconsin
Penn State
Loma Linda
TCU

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Your low clinical exposure hours will limit your chances for interviews. I suggest adding these schools:
Vermont
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Oakland Beaumont
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan