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[meileenp]

1. GPA: 4.0
2. MCAT: 517 (127/129/129/132)
3. NV resident
4. White
5. B.S. in Neuroscience from state school
6. Clinical experience:
   1. 2 years working as a urology medical scribe (>1500 hours)
7. Research experience and productivity:
   1. experience in an EEG lab (~20 hours) and biology lab (~50 hours)
   2. no publications
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. family medicine (20 hrs)
   2. ED in Costa Rica (10hrs)
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. various organizations (homeless shelter (30hrs), food pantry (20hrs), Children's Miracle Network (40 hours), Donor Network West (50hrs)
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. Leadership experience in many organizations
       1. President and Vice President of Recruitment of Phi Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity (~500 hrs)
       2. President and Vice President of Student Organ Donation Advocates (~300 hours)
       3. Vice President of Nevada Wishmakers (~150 hrs)
    2. Teaching experience
       1. Teaching Assistant and Dissection Lead for Anatomy and Physiology Program (prepare cadaver dissections and teach a lab course) (~300 hours)
       2. Teaching Assistant for Disability Issues in Health Ecology course
    3. Study Abroad Program
       1. Summer program in Costa Rica with an emphasis in Global Health
    4. Advocacy groups
       1. Peer Health Educators (60 hrs)
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Westfall Scholar in Neuroscience (top graduating senior in the major)
    2. Senior Scholar (top college of science graduating senior at my university)
    3. honors degree
12. Other
    1. Dancer for 15 years

Hello! I am looking for advice on my chances as well as if the schools on my list are appropriate! I was not originally planning on applying to top schools, however when I got my MCAT score back I realized that this might be more feasible. Any tips appreciated

Schools:
State Schools: UNR and UNLV
Out of State: OHSU, University of Arizona, Kaiser Permanente, Loyola Stritch Chicago, drexel, penn state, uvm, dartmouth, brown, indiana, ohio state, stanford

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[Faha]

UT Austin, Rutgers, UNC admit few non residents with no connection to the state. You could add any of these schools:
Colorado
Mayo Arizona
St. Louis
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Duke
Georgetown
Cincinnati
Jefferson
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
Rochester
Brown

 

[Goro]

I suggest:
UNLV
UN-R
NYU
Columbia
JHU
WashU
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Harvard
Yale
Cornell
U Chicago
Mayo
Case
Stanford
Duke
Sinai
U VA
BU
Baylor
UCSF
Pitt
USC/Keck
UCLA
U MI
Rochester
Hofstra
Ohio State
U Cincy
Dartmouth
Western MI
USF Morsani
SUNY-SB
Brown
U MA
U IA
Albert Einstein
Emory
Tufts
NYU-LI
Jefferson
Miami
SLU
U WI
U CO
U VM

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Many hours with various organizations

How many is many? 10, 100, or 1000? How much for urology, or are you just referring to scribing in urology (I think that's what you are doing, which is fine here)?

Are you double dipping with Costa Rica 🇨🇷 experience?

So tell me what your burning issues are in pursuing global health. How does that relate to neuroscience?