ClashRoyaleKing
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Well, it's almost Thanksgiving, and I still have to receive an II from any MD school. I applied broadly and early, but still nothing. I've included my previous WAMC below and included updates to the WAMC in bold. In addition, I attached my school list below with the current cycle result. Hours are as of right now November 20th, not including projected hours at all.
Feel free to ask any questions for follow-up.
*(Non?) Traditional. I graduated in April 2022. I now have about 1.5 gap years.
* California Resident. Attended private college in Northern CA.
* ORM (?) Caucasian/White
Stats:
* uGPA: 3.84 (AMCAS)
* sGPA: 3.95 (AMCAS)
* MCAT: 509 (129/123/128/129)
* Is the 123 CARS holding my whole application back?
* Scheduled retake in May, 2024 Practice tests were 509 (diagnostic) but poor studying only got my FL to 513. Did not do enough FLs or UWorld for first attempt. Never even heard of Anki until a few months ago.
* Will take the Altus Suite because of the schools I am applying to.
Scored a 4 on Preview and 2nd quartile Casper.
Work/Volunteering
* Now 3000 Hrs complete: Behavioral Health Technician. Lots of clinical experience running treatment groups, assisting medication administration, vitals, progress notes, taking patients to labs, and crisis de-escalation.
* Now 3,000 complete: Assistant Director of a behavioral facility described above. BIG leadership role. Training staff, admissions/discharges from facility, coordinating with psychiatrists information on patients/scheduling evaluations/re-evaluations, discharge planning, coordinating with social workers and other clinicians, meetings with the state and county to ensure regulation adherence. Wrote lots of essays about this experience.
*400 hrs: Emergency Room Volunteer. Restocking items in rooms, wheeling patients to discharge window, pharmacy, to the car, wiping down wheelchairs, bringing patients meals, feeding patients, bringing patients drinks and blankets, assisting nurses by helping guide gurneys, walking visitors to rooms or different areas, wiping down gurneys and making beds.
* 50 hrs: Emergency Room Volunteer Trainer: I trained a new cohort of ER volunteers and taught them the basics of the position and how to assist ED staff.
* 400 hrs: Volunteer at Food closet "Homeless Services Volunteer": I facilitate the homeless that come to our food closet to take showers, obtain a day's worth of food (limits waste/trash), and talk with them about their life experiences/whatever comes up. Wrote lots of essays on this experience.
*Tutor: 40 hours doing college chemistry. 40 hours doing high school. 2000 hours for elementary.
*Research: 300 hrs with public university doing fMRI analysis, ADHD studies and virtual reality. No pubs/presentations.
* Shadowing: 300 hours of Psychiatry from a behavioral health job. 40 hours with Internal Med/PCP. 50 hours Emergency Medicine.
Extracurriculars/Other
* AMSA while in college. Toured medical schools, attending online meetings with current medical students, suture clinic, primary care q and a, physical examination workshop, schools would also do presentations and try to sell on their schools.
* Big golfer, runner, working out.
* Pickleball (100 hrs): Fun activity I picked up during the application cycle to distract myself.
* Type I diabetic. Well-controlled and not a red flag for ADCOMs. A big reason I am going into medicine. In my personal statement.
* My Rubik’s cube solve record is 36 seconds. Can do it in a minute consistently.
* Letters of Rec: 2 science, 1 psychology, 1 MD (self-written for this one), and work supervisor (knows work ethic, leadership, integrity, character). For the upcoming cycle, I will have to swap the MD (psychiatrist) for another psych who knows me since the other no longer works at my job. I also plan to add my emergency room volunteer manager.
*PS themes: Disparity in treatment for low-income/homeless (I have lots of stories). Also tying in how being a type I diabetic has affected me personally and how I believe it would make me a better person.
In the order that I applied to/complete date. The bold indicates schools I plan to reapply to.
Texas A&M (R)
NYMC
Kaiser
Wake (R)
St. Louis (R)
RFU
SKU (R)
Nova
UConn
VTech (R)
UCDavis
OUWB (R)
VCommonwealth
Vermont
Quinnipiac (didn’t submit secondary)
Rutgers Robert Wood (R)
Loma Linda (ties to undergraduate)
UNLV (R)
Albany
MCW
Penn
Wayne
UA Tucson (R)
Tulane (R)
George Washington (R)
Geisinger Commonwealth
Rush
Drexel
UC Irvine (R)
Temple
UWisconsin (R)
Tufts
UNR (ties to state)
TCU (R)
Iowa Carver (R)
Hackensack Meridian (Sad, because I got the "continued interest" email and then no II.)
Indiana (R)
Colorado (R)
Loyola (R)
NEOMED
EVMS
Maryland
Wright State
UC Riverside
Minnesota (ties to state/school)
CUSM
Belmont
In addition, I applied to, but did not submit my secondary for one reason or other...
USC
Toledo
Buffalo
UCLA
UWashington (born/raised in state)
UCSD
U Central M
Oregon
In addition, for the next cycle, I plan to apply to DO schools as well (but mostly only CA/ AZ). I did not apply DO last cycle.
Touro CA
Touro NV
California Health Sciences
AT Still
Midwestern UA
Feel free to ask any questions for follow-up.
*(Non?) Traditional. I graduated in April 2022. I now have about 1.5 gap years.
* California Resident. Attended private college in Northern CA.
* ORM (?) Caucasian/White
Stats:
* uGPA: 3.84 (AMCAS)
* sGPA: 3.95 (AMCAS)
* MCAT: 509 (129/123/128/129)
* Is the 123 CARS holding my whole application back?
* Scheduled retake in May, 2024 Practice tests were 509 (diagnostic) but poor studying only got my FL to 513. Did not do enough FLs or UWorld for first attempt. Never even heard of Anki until a few months ago.
* Will take the Altus Suite because of the schools I am applying to.
Scored a 4 on Preview and 2nd quartile Casper.
Work/Volunteering
* Now 3000 Hrs complete: Behavioral Health Technician. Lots of clinical experience running treatment groups, assisting medication administration, vitals, progress notes, taking patients to labs, and crisis de-escalation.
* Now 3,000 complete: Assistant Director of a behavioral facility described above. BIG leadership role. Training staff, admissions/discharges from facility, coordinating with psychiatrists information on patients/scheduling evaluations/re-evaluations, discharge planning, coordinating with social workers and other clinicians, meetings with the state and county to ensure regulation adherence. Wrote lots of essays about this experience.
*400 hrs: Emergency Room Volunteer. Restocking items in rooms, wheeling patients to discharge window, pharmacy, to the car, wiping down wheelchairs, bringing patients meals, feeding patients, bringing patients drinks and blankets, assisting nurses by helping guide gurneys, walking visitors to rooms or different areas, wiping down gurneys and making beds.
* 50 hrs: Emergency Room Volunteer Trainer: I trained a new cohort of ER volunteers and taught them the basics of the position and how to assist ED staff.
* 400 hrs: Volunteer at Food closet "Homeless Services Volunteer": I facilitate the homeless that come to our food closet to take showers, obtain a day's worth of food (limits waste/trash), and talk with them about their life experiences/whatever comes up. Wrote lots of essays on this experience.
*Tutor: 40 hours doing college chemistry. 40 hours doing high school. 2000 hours for elementary.
*Research: 300 hrs with public university doing fMRI analysis, ADHD studies and virtual reality. No pubs/presentations.
* Shadowing: 300 hours of Psychiatry from a behavioral health job. 40 hours with Internal Med/PCP. 50 hours Emergency Medicine.
Extracurriculars/Other
* AMSA while in college. Toured medical schools, attending online meetings with current medical students, suture clinic, primary care q and a, physical examination workshop, schools would also do presentations and try to sell on their schools.
* Big golfer, runner, working out.
* Pickleball (100 hrs): Fun activity I picked up during the application cycle to distract myself.
* Type I diabetic. Well-controlled and not a red flag for ADCOMs. A big reason I am going into medicine. In my personal statement.
* My Rubik’s cube solve record is 36 seconds. Can do it in a minute consistently.
* Letters of Rec: 2 science, 1 psychology, 1 MD (self-written for this one), and work supervisor (knows work ethic, leadership, integrity, character). For the upcoming cycle, I will have to swap the MD (psychiatrist) for another psych who knows me since the other no longer works at my job. I also plan to add my emergency room volunteer manager.
*PS themes: Disparity in treatment for low-income/homeless (I have lots of stories). Also tying in how being a type I diabetic has affected me personally and how I believe it would make me a better person.
In the order that I applied to/complete date. The bold indicates schools I plan to reapply to.
Texas A&M (R)
NYMC
Kaiser
Wake (R)
St. Louis (R)
RFU
SKU (R)
Nova
UConn
VTech (R)
UCDavis
OUWB (R)
VCommonwealth
Vermont
Quinnipiac (didn’t submit secondary)
Rutgers Robert Wood (R)
Loma Linda (ties to undergraduate)
UNLV (R)
Albany
MCW
Penn
Wayne
UA Tucson (R)
Tulane (R)
George Washington (R)
Geisinger Commonwealth
Rush
Drexel
UC Irvine (R)
Temple
UWisconsin (R)
Tufts
UNR (ties to state)
TCU (R)
Iowa Carver (R)
Hackensack Meridian (Sad, because I got the "continued interest" email and then no II.)
Indiana (R)
Colorado (R)
Loyola (R)
NEOMED
EVMS
Maryland
Wright State
UC Riverside
Minnesota (ties to state/school)
CUSM
Belmont
In addition, I applied to, but did not submit my secondary for one reason or other...
USC
Toledo
Buffalo
UCLA
UWashington (born/raised in state)
UCSD
U Central M
Oregon
In addition, for the next cycle, I plan to apply to DO schools as well (but mostly only CA/ AZ). I did not apply DO last cycle.
Touro CA
Touro NV
California Health Sciences
AT Still
Midwestern UA
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