WAMC/School List help 520, cGPA 3.90, sGPA 3.85

[parakoopatroopa]

1. cGPA 3.90, sGPA 3.85
2. 520 (130/130/129/131)
3. OH resident, lived here my whole life
4. White female
5. Ohio State undergrad, BS neuroscience
6. Clinical experience:
   1. 1900 hours as a PCA (full time for one year at time of submission), will continue to work as PCA throughout cycle for additional 1900 hours
   2. 70 hours as a hospital volunteer (one summer, planned to continue but cut short due to covid)
7. Research experience and productivity:
   1. 50 hours, anticipating 400. Recently began research in biosciences lab. Will be performing genotyping, cryosectioning, immunophenotyping, dissections. Will have opportunity to work with grad student on our own project once she begins later in the summer.
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented:
   1. 24 hours with orthopedic surgeon both in surgery and in office
   2. 12 hours with hematologist in hospital setting, anticipating at least 12 more
9. Non-clinical volunteering:
   1. 64 hours: Elementary school math tutor. Met with underserved kids scoring below proficient in math weekly for 2 years on zoom to work on basic concepts
   2. 20 hours: Anatomy outreach. Showed cadavers and prosections to visiting high school students
   3. 20 hours: Covid testing lab. Processed covid tests in bsl-2 facility (until I got covid from lab)
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. 300 hours: Anatomy TA (2 semesters, until graduation)
    2. 150 hours: Local amusement park ride operator (1 summer)
    3. 150 hours: Library student worker (1 semester)
    4. 500 hours: Babysitter (2 summers plus random weekends)
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Dean's list every semester
    2. Graduated magna cum laude
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important
    1. Grew up not super poor but my dad lost his job during the recession right after my brother was born and was beginning to be diagnosed with special needs. Both parents were unemployed for a time and I know we struggled more than they let on. Pell grant recipient. Dad again lost his job during covid for a short time. I almost always had a job during undergrad to pay for everything myself, as I couldn't burden my parents with any more. Plan on writing about this in Other Impactful Experiences.
    2. Special needs sibling, might want to work with kids with neurodevelopment disorders in the future. This was my inspiration for selecting neuroscience as my major

School list: (aiming for 25-30ish)

• All Ohio MD schools
• University of Vermont
• Boston University
• University of Michigan
• George Washington
• Dartmouth
• West Virginia University
• Brown University
• Georgetown
• Eastern Virginia
• Vanderbilt
• Thomas Jefferson
• Wake Forest
• Albert Einstein
• Tufts
• University of Iowa
• Rosalind Franklin
• Quinnipiac
• UCSF
• UCLA
• Emory
• Geisinger
• VCU
• USC Greenville (cousin/best friend and godparents live there)
• Penn State
• University of Rochester
• NYMC
• Mt Sinai
• Hackensack
• University of Maryland

Thank you for any guidance you can give me friends!

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[Goro]

Nopnclinical volunteering is weak. Get in service to others less fortunate than yourself, and get off campus and out of your comfort zone.

You have a number of schools that will resource protect you out, (figuring that you'll more likely go elsewhere, based upon their historic norms), and some donations as well.

So aim a little higher:
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
Harvard
JHU
Mayo
Northwestern
NYU
U Chicago
U Penn
U VA
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
Case
Hofstra
Stanford
Baylor
BU
Pitt
Sinai
U MI
USF Morsani
UTSW
Brown
Kaiser (but only 50 seats!)
Rochester
SUNY-SB
UCLA
USC/Keck
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
Emory
NYMC
U IA
U MA
Creighton
Gtown
Hackensack Meridian
Jefferson
Miami
NYU-LI
SLU
Tufts
U CO
U VM
UCF
Western MI
Your state schools

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Preview or Casper scores?

 

[parakoopatroopa]

Preview or Casper scores?

I'm taking Casper next month, not sure if I'll take preview yet

 

[parakoopatroopa]

Nopnclinical volunteering is weak. Get in service to others less fortunate than yourself, and get off campus and out of your comfort zone.

You have a number of schools that will resource protect you out, (figuring that you'll more likely go elsewhere, based upon their historic norms), and some donations as well.

So aim a little higher:
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
Harvard
JHU
Mayo
Northwestern
NYU
U Chicago
U Penn
U VA
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
Case
Hofstra
Stanford
Baylor
BU
Pitt
Sinai
U MI
USF Morsani
UTSW
Brown
Kaiser (but only 50 seats!)
Rochester
SUNY-SB
UCLA
USC/Keck
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
Emory
NYMC
U IA
U MA
Creighton
Gtown
Hackensack Meridian
Jefferson
Miami
NYU-LI
SLU
Tufts
U CO
U VM
UCF
Western MI
Your state schools

thank you!