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1) cGPA: 3.98, sGPA: 3.98 AMCAS (only applying MD)
2) MCAT: 521 (132/129/132/128)
3) CA residence
4) Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Taiwanese)
5) Undergrad: T5 Pub school
6) Clinical Experience: EMT 751 hours over ~9 months, PT clinic and hospital nursing/escort volunteer ~220 hours over 3 years
7) Radiation oncology research ~1000 hours over 4 years, no pubs/posters, third author manuscript submitted to impact factor 10+ journal. PI is credible for whatever it's worth: previously published on Nature a couple years back.
8) Shadowing: Radiation oncology (PI's) 40 hours, ophthalmology clinic 40 hours, family medicine clinic 9 hours.
9) Nonclinical volunteering: ~110 hours university food recovery network over 3 years, ~200 hours English tutor/student mentor to international students over 2 years
10) Hobbies/Misc ECs: Jazz piano/music composition ~600 hours over 4 years, Biology honors society membership ~90 hours over 4 years, Taiwanese student association ~150 hours over 4 years
11) Quarterly Provost honors (9 times), expected summa cum laude, college-specific honors society. These are basically all GPA and units/credits-based honors, so not that useful.
12) Other: My personal statement heavily focuses on my father, who has a terminal cancer diagnosis and for whom I served as his primary caretaker at home. Ties into my cancer research.
School list (40):
UCSD
UCSF
UCI
UCLA Geffen
USC Keck
U of Virginia
U of Pittsburgh
UMich
Emory
Case Western
Icahn Sch of Med at Mount Sinai
Brown U Alpert
U of Central Florida
USF Morsani
U of Maryland
U of Arizona Phoenix
U of Massachusetts
U of Cincinnati
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY)
U of Rochester
Dartmouth Geisel
Ohio State
Tufts University School of Medicine
Thomas Jefferson U Kimmel
U of Iowa, Carver
Rutgers
Northwestern Feinberg
Stanford
NYU Grossman
Yale
Johns Hopkins
Duke
Columbia
UPenn
Harvard
Mayo Clinic
Cornell
U of Chicago,
WashU
Vanderbilt
My biggest concern currently is whether my application has enough to fit the missions of certain schools on this list. This list is also pretty big, so I'm looking mostly to either replace or whittle down schools (though feel free to pitch any additions). I am also worried about if this list is too top-heavy.
2) MCAT: 521 (132/129/132/128)
3) CA residence
4) Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Taiwanese)
5) Undergrad: T5 Pub school
6) Clinical Experience: EMT 751 hours over ~9 months, PT clinic and hospital nursing/escort volunteer ~220 hours over 3 years
7) Radiation oncology research ~1000 hours over 4 years, no pubs/posters, third author manuscript submitted to impact factor 10+ journal. PI is credible for whatever it's worth: previously published on Nature a couple years back.
8) Shadowing: Radiation oncology (PI's) 40 hours, ophthalmology clinic 40 hours, family medicine clinic 9 hours.
9) Nonclinical volunteering: ~110 hours university food recovery network over 3 years, ~200 hours English tutor/student mentor to international students over 2 years
10) Hobbies/Misc ECs: Jazz piano/music composition ~600 hours over 4 years, Biology honors society membership ~90 hours over 4 years, Taiwanese student association ~150 hours over 4 years
11) Quarterly Provost honors (9 times), expected summa cum laude, college-specific honors society. These are basically all GPA and units/credits-based honors, so not that useful.
12) Other: My personal statement heavily focuses on my father, who has a terminal cancer diagnosis and for whom I served as his primary caretaker at home. Ties into my cancer research.
School list (40):
UCSD
UCSF
UCI
UCLA Geffen
USC Keck
U of Virginia
U of Pittsburgh
UMich
Emory
Case Western
Icahn Sch of Med at Mount Sinai
Brown U Alpert
U of Central Florida
USF Morsani
U of Maryland
U of Arizona Phoenix
U of Massachusetts
U of Cincinnati
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY)
U of Rochester
Dartmouth Geisel
Ohio State
Tufts University School of Medicine
Thomas Jefferson U Kimmel
U of Iowa, Carver
Rutgers
Northwestern Feinberg
Stanford
NYU Grossman
Yale
Johns Hopkins
Duke
Columbia
UPenn
Harvard
Mayo Clinic
Cornell
U of Chicago,
WashU
Vanderbilt
My biggest concern currently is whether my application has enough to fit the missions of certain schools on this list. This list is also pretty big, so I'm looking mostly to either replace or whittle down schools (though feel free to pitch any additions). I am also worried about if this list is too top-heavy.
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