WAMC+School List Help (3.985 cGPA/3.980 sGPA, 522 MCAT)

[healthyhollywood]

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cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.98 cGPA / 3.98 sGPA
MCAT score(s) and breakdown 511(128, 127, 130, 126), retake: 522 (130/131/130/131)
State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US) CA Resident legally, grew up in WI and will be spending gap year in WI
Ethnicity and/or race: ORM, 1 gap year
Undergraduate institution or category: UCLA

Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
Planned hospital technician job during gap year (either anesthesia tech or ED tech, 0.8 FTE-1.0 FTE, depending on position)

Research experience and productivity
547 hours research in a bioengineering lab
manuscript submitted with author but not yet published

Shadowing experience and specialties represented
Cardiology (CCU, consults, and outpatient): 105.11 hours
Pediatrics: 24 hours
Dermatology: 4 hours
Internal Medicine: 8 hours

Non-clinical volunteering
Red Cross: 37.5 hours
Other club outreach volunteering hours: 6.75
Community pantry (planned for gap year, 2 hrs/week but can do more)


Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
summer intern for a non-profit organization
Shadowing club at undergrad that allowed for shadowing/some volunteering
Public Health club at undergrad



Relevant honors or awards


Anything else not listed you think might be important
I’m a pretty good cook and was going to work as a line cook a little in a family friend’s restaurant during my gap year as time allows (probably not important)

I know my numbers are fine but I'm pretty unsure about everything else. For that reason, I can't figure out what a well-balanced school list would be while keeping it around 30 schools. Please feel free to give any advice for gap year activities or school list modifications, and thank you in advance.

I’ve seen @Goro @Faha @chilly_md @Mr.Smile12 @LizzyM tagged for advice. Thank you so much in advance for your help and expertise, I really appreciate it!

School List (please help me cut this down to 30±2 without touching any of the top 10)
1. UCLA
2. UCSF
3. Wisconsin SMPH
4. UCSD
5. Stanford
6. Northwestern
7. UChicago
8. Mayo Clinic
9. USC (Keck)
10. Kaiser Permanente Tyson
11. UC Irvine
12. Vanderbilt
13. Dartmouth
14. UMich
15. WashU
16. UVA
17. U of Arizona Phoenix
18. Case Western Reserve
19. Cornell
20. Brown
21. Icahn Mt. Sinai
22. Columbia
23. Hofstra
24. Albert Einstein
25. Loyola Stritch
26. Emory
27. Boston University
28. Duke
29. Johns Hopkins
30. NYU
31. Ohio State
32. Yale
33. UPenn
34. Tufts
35. UC Davis
36. Drexel
37. Rush
38. Rutgers
39. NYU Long Island

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[Faha]

You have zero clinical volunteering/employment and minimal non clinical volunteering so your chances for interviews are low, especially at top tier schools where you will be competing with applicants with the same stats and hundreds or thousands of clinical and non clinical hours. You would be better off to correct those deficits in the coming year and apply in June 2024. The ED tech job would be ideal. Also accumulate 150 hours of non clinical volunteering such as homeless shelter, food bank, etc. .

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Check with the residency rules for Wisconsin. Is a Wisconsin HS diploma enough? Thus I'm not sure applying to California schools is going to benefit you without more nonclinical community service hours. Aside from geography, I'd want a better idea of your mission fit.

 

[chilly_md]

My thoughts are the same as Faha’s. That may lead you to becoming a WI resident then potentially as well.

 

[Goro]

1. UCLA
2. UCSF
3. Wisconsin SMPH
5. Stanford
6. Northwestern
8. Mayo Clinic
9. USC (Keck)
12. Vanderbilt
13. Dartmouth
15. WashU
16. UVA
18. Case Western Reserve
19. Cornell
20. Brown
21. Icahn Mt. Sinai
22. Columbia
23. Hofstra
24. Albert Einstein
26. Emory
27. Boston University
28. Duke
29. Johns Hopkins
31. Ohio State
32. Yale
33. UPenn
34. Tufts
39. NYU Long Island

ADD:
Miami
Rochester
Hofstra
U IA
Baylor

You need to be cautious as school are advised to average MCAT scores.