Biweekly WAMC / School Lists Thread - Week of June 12, 2019

  • Year in school: just graduated from a top 20 school
  • Country/state of residence: USA
  • Cumulative GPA: 3.76
  • Science GPA: 3.63
  • MCAT Scores: 513 (128/127/129/129)
  • Research: preparing to submit a first author publication this summer, 1 poster presentation, 634 hours total
  • Physician shadowing: 85 hours in oncology in France// in the US: 20 hours in nephrology, 5 hours in OBGYN, will be continuing more during gap year
  • Non-clinical volunteering: 64 hours teaching kids to dance (am a dance minor), 20 hours teaching kids to read (both in underserved communities in the city that I went to college)
  • Extracurricular activities: dancer in various showcases and a professional dance company (491 hrs), exec member for 4 years including 1 year as VP of cultural club (265 hrs), pre-orientation leader for 2 years (106 hours), + shadowing/volunteering as described above
  • LOR: 1 bio, 1 physics, 1 French, 1 from lab mentor
  • Employment history: will be either scribing full time or working in clinical research during gap year
  • Please include time span and weekly commitment for volunteering/research/shadowing/extracurriculars:
  • Immediate family members in medicine? (y/n): n
  • Specialty of interest: some kind of internal medicine most likely
  • Graduate degrees: n
  • Interest in rural health (y/n): n
  • Schools to which you are applying: u of arizona tucson, u of arizona phoenix, u missouri KC, cooper medical, penn state, california university of science and medicine, GWU, tulane, university of colorado, virginia commonwealth, quinnipiac, georgetown, temple, rutgers, sidney kimmel, SLU, SUNY downtown, tufts, UMiami, Maryland, emory, albert einstein, drexel, keck, massachusetts, hofstra, brown, pittsburgh, USF, BU

I'm worried that i should add more lower tier schools, although i'm not sure which schools to add because i do want to be in an urban location, but i also can't be too picky :(

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