List of EC numbers (EC 3) Puns

I am an Intl. applying to UMiami, Richmond, Lehigh, Skidmore, Reed, Washington and Lee, Lafayette, Bentley and Vassar

Also, if someone got decent aid from this universities test optional, pls leave a comment

I was severely abused as a child and cut contact with my parents when I was 18. I have really bad PTSD from all that. I have always wanted to go to medical school, but while I was in college my mental health was poor and I couldn't do school + ECs like my peers without those challenges. I graduated in April 2021 and have been working menial jobs since to keep myself fed + housed while doing therapy every week.

I still want to go to medical school. I am doing A LOT BETTER. I just got some financial help so that I can cut down my hours at work + hopefully start cracking at those ECs.

I'm incredibly lost as to where to start. I know that I probably won't be able to get all of those hours in by the 2022 application cycle, but I think I could be by the 2023 application cycle.

I'm also scared my professors won't remember me if I need multiple gap years.

Thanks <3

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Currently 15 and a sophomore, go to a pretty competitive high school in a Chicago suburb. I have a 4.0 unweight, 4.65 weighted, only have a 5 in AP Human and currently taking APWH and AP Stats. Plan on taking more APs in my future classes and have a plan layed out. Also 1310 on PSAT 8/9/ in 8th grade (idk if its important at all).

EC:

-Soccer(club, 9th grade was on frehsman A, tryouts this year in 1 month)

-Model UN (10th, one conference I just attended 3 days ago with no awards.... :(

-DECA(10th, no state or actual events for me in COVID because I'm a first-year

-UNICEF(School club, we do absolutely nothing but it looks COoL

-Piano(10 years playing, teach 1 student once a week, currently working on HR2, one of the hardest pre-20th century songs)

-Coding in python(self learning rn, only know the basics and definitely planning on expanding)

-Stock market(Running a few paper trade accounts, plan on using real money)

Future Plans:

Seals of Biliteracy in Spanish and Chinese

Summer internship for coding, music, or anything at all tbh

Maybe start an org or business related to piano lessons?

Volunteer with friends for hours and having fun

In conclusion, please rate this plan from 1-10 from 1 being a pathetic loser to 10 being AO's begging me to attend Ivies. Also I would appreciate some advice on internships and expanding my interest in piano. Thank you guys very much.

tl;dr: Rate my EC"s above and give me feedback because I panicc

Inspired by a post I saw on Reddit today( which asked the no 1 ec), I wanted to turn the tables around..let’s see the response

HI PEOPLE! I NEED HELP!

I previously asked the premed community for advice on a thread, but I didn't get a lot of feedback. Sorry for being repetitive, but I would really appreciate multiple opinions on my school list. I don't want to have to apply again because I overestimated myself, nor waste my savings. I also need feedback on which schools to cut!

• Year in school: Graduated + 2 gap years

• Country/state of residence: California

• Schools to which you are applying: Please correct me if my ranking is wrong. I have interests in Chicago, Florida, Boston, and Colorado (since I have family members here)

  • In state: Stanford, UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, UCD, UCI, UCR, Kaiser, Keck
  • Top:
    • Harvard (10% percentile in only MCAT) (unlikely)
    • Yale (10% percentile only GPA) (unlikely)
    • Michigan, Duke, Mayo, Pitt, Cornell, UWash (unlikely), UChicago (at least 10% in both MCAT and GPA)
  • Mid-Top: UNC-Chapel Hill, Emory, Brown, Sinai, Case Western, BU
  • Mid: U Massachusetts, Vermont, Tufts, Rochester, U Wisconsin, U Maryland, U Colorado, Dartmouth, Stony Brook, Miami, Loyola, Rosalind Franklin, Jefferson, Georgetown, George Wash, Albany, Einstein, Tulane, Oregan Health and Sciences, Nova,

• Cumulative GPA: 3.71 (last 2 years of school were 4.0's)

• Science GPA: 3.67

• MCAT Scores: 513 (130/126/129/128)

• Research – include any abstracts/posters/publications and how you were credited (eg. First author, senior author, etc):

  • 7 Publications (1 Cell, 1 Nature; remaining pubs are1st-3rd coauthors in lower impact journals)
  • 3200 hours of Medical Artificial Intelligence project through an international fellowship

• Volunteering (clinical) – include hours/sites:

  • 104 hours (1 year) as a medical assistant in a retina clinic

• Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties:

  • 280 hours (plastic/reconstructive surgery and neurosurgery on children with craniofacial deformities + ER volunteer work)
  • 66 hours tutoring

• Non-clinical volunteering:

  • 260 hours (2 years) as a mentor for foster youth program

• Extracurricular activities:

  • 400 hours cofounder and CEO of a nonprofit that raised over $50K
  • 1500 hours as an unofficial guardian for international high school student
  • 1200 Motorcycle club/riding/track
  • 1 year of Japanese

• Employment history:

  • 2700 hours of clinical research + Award + presentation at a meeting which hosts 3000

Not only is the me264 unbalanced now it's unlimited and annoying Any decent match that used to have a lot of dogfight now is just me264 every fucking where

I was severely abused as a child and cut contact with my parents when I was 18. I have really bad PTSD from all that. I have always wanted to go to medical school, but while I was in college my mental health was poor and I couldn't do school + ECs like my peers without those challenges. I graduated in April 2021 and have been working menial jobs since to keep myself fed + housed while doing therapy every week.

I still want to go to medical school. I am doing A LOT BETTER. I just got some financial help so that I can cut down my hours at work + hopefully start cracking at those ECs.

I'm incredibly lost as to where to start. I know that I probably won't be able to get all of those hours in by the 2022 application cycle, but I think I could be by the 2023 application cycle.

I'm also scared my professors won't remember me if I need multiple gap years.

Thanks <3

With medical school applications around the corner, I need help creating a school list. My advisor says I should shoot for more mid-tier schools, but my PI and WARs score say otherwise. I would really appreciate some honest advice. I’ve spent hours doing research but I keep questioning where I should apply. I want to apply to T10 schools but I don’t want to carelessly throw my savings at schools if I’m not a worthy consideration.

cGPA: 3.71 sGPA: 3.65 Last two years of undergrad: 4.0 MCAT: 513 (130, 126, 129, 128)

ECs:

1. 7 publications (1 Cell, 1 Nature Medicine, other pubs are 2nd and 3rd authors)
2. Chinese fellowship for medical artificial intelligence (white/latina background) ~ 2700 hours
3. Medical volunteer for legally blind ~100 hours
4. Four years of clinical research with publications, presentations, and an award. ~2600 hour
5. Cofounder and CEO of non-profit that raised over 50K for cancer
6. 9 month mentor for special needs man
7. 2 year mentor for foster youth
8. 1 year unofficial guardian of high schooler
9. 66 hours tutoring
10. 280 hours shadowing
11. 1 academic year of Japanese (but I still suck)

Looking for honest advice. Will I even be looked at T10 schools? My gpa and MCAT are 10th percentile at most.

Looking to apply to all California schools and beyond that I’m lost. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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