<p>Undergraduate University: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – OOS
Concentration/Major: Asian Studies
GPA: 3.85
BCPM GPA: 3.8
MCAT: 32 O</p>
<p>EC:
A Child’s Hope Club - Founder/President (2008-2010)
Pi Alpha Phi Fraternity - President (2009-2010)
Pi Alpha Phi Fraternity - Secretary (2008-2009)
Pi Alpha Phi Fraternity - Historian (2008-2009)
Pi Alpha Phi Fraternity - Multi-Cultural Greek Council Representative (2007-2008)
Research Assistant - Healthy Asian American Project - (2008-2010)
Alpha Epsilon Delta (Premed Honors Society) - Member - (2007-2010)
United Asian American Organization - Member - (2007-2010)
Sigma Lambda Alpha - Honors Society - Member - (2007-2010)
National Society of Collegiate Scholars (2007-2010)</p>
<p>What are my chances for the following medical schools?
University of Michigan
MSU (both DO/MD)
OSU
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>You need to apply to more schools than just those 4.</p>
<p>I know that. These 4 schools however are the school that I would like people to gauge my changes in (for reasons of my own). I am applying to 17 schools.</p>
<p>Good call on 17 total, that seems to be a good ballpark for many people. </p>
<p>Did you forget to mention clinical experience, shadowing, and volunteering? If you have none of those, I’d be concerned. Your stats are right in there with the averages for students who are accepted (test takers = 24, applicants = 27, matriculants = 31, if I remember correctly), so nothing to really worry about there. </p>
<p>I just finished up an interview at Northwestern (Feinberg) and one of the big things I noticed is that if you want to compete with the “top dogs” (Northwestern’s top 25) then you need a SIGNIFICANT hook, and from the looks of it…you don’t have one. As an example, during my panel interview (3 applicants including me, interviewed as a group by a doc and an M4), one applicant had started a nonprofit working to improve health literacy in her region that’s received praise at national and local levels, another grew up in Colombia then moved to Alaska and has since logged hundreds of hours volunteering and shadowing in both places to develop a passion for global health and primary care (and speaks 4 languages fluently), and the other took 5 years off after undergrad to do 2 years of Teach for America and 3 years of consulting work (for a high profile Chicago firm) to hospitals and physicians about the economic/financial impact of PPACA and its implications and will be presenting her work to the WHO and UNICEF in Geneva next week. </p>
<p>I am absolutely not exaggerating, and if anything have taken those achievements and simplified them substantially.</p>
<p>So from the looks of it, if your major EC contribution involves your fraternity, I’d make sure to apply broadly and to consider schools like Hopkins practically out of reach (and they are out of reach to the vast majority of applicants anyway). If Ohio’s your home state, and OSU=Ohio State, then that’s always going to be your most likely bet. Clearly you have ties to Michigan, so U-M and MSU could work too. But without clinical experience, lots of shadowing, and meaningful volunteer work…it’s gonna be tough to go anywhere.</p>
<p>Allow me to elaborate.</p>
<p>Undergraduate University: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – OOS
Concentration/Major: Asian Studies
GPA: 3.85
BCPM GPA: 3.8
MCAT: 32 O</p>
<p>EC:
A Child’s Hope Club - Founder/President (2008-2010)
This is an organization that helps orphans all around the world. Our club does fundraisers to help this organization provide shelter for orphans and help them look for loving and caring families.
Pi Alpha Phi Fraternity - President (2009-2010)
An Asian Interest Fraternity with the national philanthropy known as Jade Ribbom Campaign. JRC, which started in Berkley is an organization that helps raise awareness about the prevalence of Hepatitis B in Asian American communities. Our fraternity held informational events to raise awareness and fundraise for our cause.
Pi Alpha Phi Fraternity - Secretary (2008-2009)
Pi Alpha Phi Fraternity - Historian (2008-2009)
Pi Alpha Phi Fraternity - Multi-Cultural Greek Council Representative (2007-2008)
Research Assistant - Healthy Asian American Project - (2008-2010)
In charge of outreach for this organization, I reached out into the Asian American community with language sensitive material to help raise awareness about health issues prevalent in the Asian American community. I organized health fairs that provided free health services (mammograms, BMI, blood pressure etc) for those who do not have access to these services. I focused on Hepatitis B and its prevalence in the Asian American community (1/12 Asian Americans are diagnosed with HBV) and created easy to understand awareness pamphlets to disseminate knowledge about the disease and advocate for routine check ups. This closely ties to my Fraternities national philanthropy: Jade Ribbon Campaign.
Alpha Epsilon Delta (Premed Honors Society) - Member - (2007-2010)
United Asian American Organization - Member - (2007-2010)
Sigma Lambda Alpha - Honors Society - Member - (2007-2010)
National Society of Collegiate Scholars (2007-2010)</p>
<p>I have logged over 400 hospital volunteering hours and 100 shadowing hours. I didn’t list this in the previous post because i figured that this was granted. </p>
<p>So if you are talking about a hook, I do indeed have one. My major was Asian Studies and I focused on the health disparities in the Asian American community and advocated for raising awareness about health services in the Asian American community. Both my research and my fraternity’s philanthropy focused on HBV and raising awareness about the disease. I didn’t realize that you needed a “hook” to get into Medical school. </p>
<p>Please chance me on:
UMich
MSU
OSU
JHop
Chicago</p>
<p>BUMP.
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<p>You can’t really do chances in medical school admissions, because anybody’s chances to any one school are pretty low. Take Hopkins, for example. Let’s say their admissions rate is… I don’t know, 4%.</p>
<p>Now let’s say you know for sure you’re not in the top 2% of their applicants, but you’re definitely somewhere in the top 30%. (This is a hypothetical.) What does that leave you with?</p>
<p>Well, you’d have about… </p>
<p>… 7% odds.</p>
<p>Now compound that with the usual uncertainty about where exactly you fall into the pool. See why this exercise is impossible?</p>
<p>You are OOS for MI. Where are you IS? That is where your best chances will be. Low on hard stats for Michigan, Chicago, and Hopkins. All are substantial reaches (but it is plenty ok to have some reaches) . Maybe a bit low for Ohio State OOS, too.</p>