WAMC/School List Help (AL Resident, 506/3.9)

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21F, Neuroscience major with minors in chemistry and psychology
  • cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
    • cGPA: 3.9, sGPA: 3.8
  • MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts.
    • 506 (125/128/124/129) (i know its bad but hopefully everything else somewhat makes up for it)
  • State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
    • Alabama resident
  • Ethnicity and/or race
    • White
  • Undergraduate institution or category
    • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
    • Non-volunteer, patient care technician in a psychiatric unit: ~1000 hours, worked with a lot of underserved populations and have plenty of meaningful experiences to discuss
    • Volunteer at children's hospital: ~200 hours
  • Research experience and productivity
    • Research in the field of suicide, substance use disorders, and transgender health care: ~700 hours, 2 (not first author) publications, 1 poster presentation that received 2nd place at my university's expo
  • Shadowing experience and specialties represented
    • Shadowed a primary care physician in my home town: ~70 hours
    • Shadowed trauma surgeons and emergency medicine physicians at ER: ~80 hours
  • Non-clinical volunteering
    • Part of an organization where we go to (underfunded) schools and tutor 1st and 2nd graders in reading: ~100 hours
  • Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    • Helped start a club at my university focused on anti-racism in science and currently serving as Vice President of Membership (~100 hours)
    • Vice President in a mental health club at my university (~250 hours)
  • Relevant honors or awards
    • Full academic scholarship at my university, 2nd place poster presentation in undergraduate expo, Presidential Honors/Dean's List for every semester
  • Anything else not listed you think might be important
    • LOR from 3 professors who I am close to (2 neuroscience, 1 psychology), as well as 2 PI's I worked under (one PhD and one MD), and a physician I work with at my job

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You should accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering (food bank, homeless shelter, etc.) before you submit your application.
I suggest these MD schools with your stats:
Alabama
South Alabama
Belmont
NOVA MD
Alice Walton (when it opens)
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Penn State
Hackensack
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Also apply to DO schools and I suggest these:
ACOM
NOVA
PCOM
CUSOM
VCOM (all schools except Monroe)
WVSOM
ATSU-KCOM
KCU-COM
DMU-COM
MU-COM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
 
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