Hi everyone, I applied this cycle and I was able to get 4 MD interviews that have turned into 4 waitlists. I will list my stats and extracurriculars below but the biggest points I could improve upon in my opinion are getting some primary care shadowing and increasing my non clinical volunteering hours. I also submitted by application later- most of my secondaries where completed in mid to late September. During this past year I was able to slightly gain some clinical volunteering hours as well as complete a good amount of research, but I am not sure if this is a good enough gain to reapply immediately. I would greatly appreciate some input whether it is worth reapplying right now or to wait for the next cycle. Thank you for any feedback.
Stats:
-ORM
-Illinois resident
-cGPA: 3.87
-sGPA: 3.9
-MCAT: 511 (128/127/127/129), I took it this past August
Clinical volunteering:
-Around 280 hours assisting in procedures at surgical center
Nonclinical:
-150 hours helping set up activities for residents at nursing home
Shadowing:
-80 hours-- only shadowing internal medicine specialists, did not shadow any primary care physicians
Research:
-Around 800 hours of clinical research
-Have 4 abstracts published, three of which were first author
-Presented numerous first author posters at national medical conferences
-Working on patenting a medical device