lollipop123
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Hello! I am having a hard time creating an MD school list with not many premed resources available to me besides the Internet. I have been consulting MSAR, but I would love to get more insight on "soft characteristics" of schools, what kinds of applicants certain schools tend to accept, what schools would be good for me to apply to based on my application, etc. I am applying with no gap year.
- Undergrad GPA: 4.00
- MCAT: 519 (129/128/132/130)
- Residency: New Jersey, although I just moved here from living in Virginia nearly my whole life (not sure if that makes a difference?). I also completed an REU at UNMC if that adds any Nebraska connection.
- Asian-American
- Undergrad: T25 private undergrad, biology major
- Clinical experience: ED scribing (paid) - 430 hours, will continue scribing throughout the summer and next academic year at around 20 hrs/week)
- Research:
- Computer science research in basic Java over one summer - ~120 hours, presented a talk at Undergraduate Research Conference in the state of my undergrad (although it was virtual during COVID)
- Alcohol hepatology research through UNMC REU mentioned previously - ~400 hours, concluded program with poster and am a contributing author for a paper that is currently under review for journal submission from that lab (though I am the least contributing author on that paper)
- Pediatric oncology research - ~245 hours, will be doing full time work in this lab over the upcoming summer and completing an honors thesis through my undergrad in my senior year. Also am an ALSF POST grant recipient for upcoming summer
- Shadowing: ~40 hours of shadowing many different physicians across two hospitals, including oncology, cardiology, ENT, cardiac electrophysiology procedure and clinic, and internal medicine.
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- Global mentoring for students in communities without access to quality middle/high school educations - ~115 hours, will be continuing 1 hour/week
- Free medical clinic front desk work - 32 hours, wasn't sure if this went under clinical or non-clinical as I know front desk work is usually non-clinical, but I felt that I learned a lot from this experience and interacted with all patients who entered in Spanish/observed patient-physician interactions. I wish I had contributed more time to this clinic but I unfortunately moved after I began volunteering here
- ED volunteer - 40 hours, resetting patient rooms and restocking, occasionally bringing patients from triage, conducting patient rounds
- Teaching kitchen volunteer - 20 hours, helping set up and facilitate cooking classes and nutrition lessons for patients who have diet-related chronic diseases, will hopefully be continuing this as well
- Other:
- 1st and 2nd year dorm hall Resident Advisor (RA) - ~1000 hours, will also be an RA next year
- Supplemental Instructor for intro bio course - 250 hours
- Teaching Assistant for intro bio lab - 60 hours
- Pre-health peer mentoring - 100 hours, continuing next year
- Music-related service organization leadership board - 100 hours
- Campus-wide service organization leadership board - 130 hours, continuing next year
- Relevant honors and awards:
- Dean's List all semesters
- LORs: 2 science profs and 2 research PIs
- Hobbies: violin for around 10 years
- Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
- Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Yale
- NYU Grossman
- WashU
- Cornell
- Case Western
- Northwestern
- Emory
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- UNMC
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College
- Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac
- Eastern VA Med
- Rochester
- UCLA
- George Washington
- Penn State
