WAMC Non-trad 3.3/521 reapplicant

[BiomedEngr18]

Hey folks, would appreciate some feedback on my list. I'm non-trad a few years out of college and not sure how to take all this together. This will be my third time applying, the first two were back to back after completing my post-bacc in 2020 and based on feedback from an advisor and my medical field peers/family, this was the fault of my glaring lack of clinical exposure up until that point. I have since been working a heavily clinical role as a device rep, assisting operations in the OR and doing patient checkups in clinic and on the hospital floor/ED. Previously I was just doing in-house R&D for a biotech company.

• State/Country of Residence: NY
• Ties to other States/Regions: CT raised
• URM? (Y/N): N
• Year in School: No longer eligible for "young alumni" events
• Undergraduate Profile: State school; Biomedical Engineering major
• Graduate Degrees (if applicable): Post-bacc Health Sciences (certificate)
• Cumulative GPA: 3.4 (Upward trend: 2.9/3.2/3.0/3.7/4.0/4.0)
• Science GPA: 3.4 (Same trend)
• MCAT Score(s): 6/20 - 516 (130/126/129/131) EXPIRED -> 3/24 - 521 (130/129/131/131)
• Research Experience: 500+ hrs across two labs in undergrad (no publications); 9 credit hours of engineering design/research
• Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): Nope
• Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): 3yrs full-time medical device clinical specialist
• Physician Shadowing: 100 hrs of actual shadowing, not counting the collateral "shadowing" from my current job
• Non-Clinical Volunteering: 600+ Food pantry, red cross blood drives, etc.
• Other Extracurricular Activities: Undergrad club sports captain, academic fraternity with multiple leadership roles
• Other Employment History: 4 yrs full-time biomedical R&D engineering
• Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): Y
• Specialty of Interest (if applicable): Ask me again when I get accepted
• Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Maybe
• Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): No
• Medical School List:

Target-ish

UCONN

UMASS

UVM

Stony Brook

Hackensack

Rutgers I/Rutgers II

Rowan/Cooper

Quinnipiac

SUNY Upstate

SUNY Buffalo

SUNY Downstate

Albany

Maryland

Rush

Emory

NYU-LISOM

Low yields

NYMC

Jefferson

Georgetown

Drexel

Temple

George Washington

Tufts

Brown

DO

Touro

NYIT

PCOM

UNE

Reaches ( I know it's too much but I have some connections and really want to try to stay northeast/nyc)

Hofstra

Einstein

Cornell

Yale

Sinai

BU

NYU

Columbia

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[BiomedEngr18]

Also want to note, my full-time clinical job has me working in an underserved urban community and my application will reflect that this has been very formative for me. Ultimately I would like to practice in this environment.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

If your clinical experience was the barrier from your last two tries, I hope this time is the charm. What do you want to do, now that you have had a taste of the medical device industry?

Where did you apply before, and any interviews from those attempts?

 

[BiomedEngr18]

If your clinical experience was the barrier from your last two tries, I hope this time is the charm. What do you want to do, now that you have had a taste of the medical device industry?

Where did you apply before, and any interviews from those attempts?

Thanks for the well wishes, I hope so too. I am generally interested in specialties that involve tech and engineering sciences, currently working in cardiac electrophysiology which is really cool to me but also I know there's a whole ocean out there I haven't yet been exposed to. I have a cousin that I really resonate with that just chose psychiatry as his specialty and that definitely interests me as well.

My list is almost the same as before; just added Maryland, Rush, and Emory because I expanded my range. I removed Einstein, Geisinger, and Dartmouth because of application limits and because my partner and I would not do great in some of these more remote/rural locales. First cycle I was interviewed at NYITCOM, interviewer said he would strongly recommend me but that didn't pan out. Second cycle I interviewed at LECOM, also seemed to go well but alas.

 

[Faha]

The Rutgers schools and Cooper Rowan admit few non residents with no connection to the state. You could add these schools:
Carle Illinois (you fit their profile)
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
USF Morsani
Miami
Belmont
Creighton
TCU
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont

 

[BiomedEngr18]

The Rutgers schools and Cooper Rowan admit few non residents with no connection to the state. You could add these schools:
Carle Illinois (you fit their profile)
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
USF Morsani
Miami
Belmont
Creighton
TCU
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont

Thanks for the info, I'll take a second look at Rutgers and Cooper as well as the schools you suggested adding.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Hmm...

What is Medical Engineering?

Medical engineering is a field that has been around for decades, but it’s one that continues to transform and evolve. This challenging field refers to applying engineering’s approach and innovation to the field of medicine and healthcare.

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There are plenty of medical schools that work with their engineering peers. Do your homework about how you could leverage your background with opportunities on those campuses.