u/Hckr_

Right now I’m volunteering at Crisis Text Line which I absolutely love but I wanted to start doing something more direct and in-person as well. My local library allows volunteers to come and tutor chess (one of my biggest hobbies, and a volunteer opportunity I actually used to do back in hs), but I was wondering whether this would actually do anything for adcoms because I’m not really working with an underserved population or anything.

I could also volunteer at the local food bank or something which would be better for “target population” but I’d just be doing it for the sake of my application profile, not pure enjoyability. I don’t mind doing it at all but I was just curious to what extent adcoms actually look at this stuff lol

Thank you!

I was hoping to apply this cycle, but I only got a clinical job this past month. By the time May 28 comes around, I'll only have about 15 clinical hours. However, my projected hours is 1200 hours for the next 1 year.

T25 undergrad, double major in Biopsychology/Neuroscience and Spanish, Ohio resident with ties to Michigan, ORM

MCAT: 517 (513 first attempt)
cGPA: 3.87 (see extenuating circumstance)
sGPA: 3.73

Volunteering: 350h

• 250h Crisis Text Line
• 100h food bank

Research: ~2000h

• 400h suicide research lab
  • 1 4th author publication
• 1500h transcriptomic neuroscience lab
  • 1 1st author publication pending
  • 1 mid-author publication
  • 2 mid-author pre-prints
  • 2 poster presentations

Shadowing: 25h (orthopedic surgery)

Clinical: 0 hours, 1200 projected lol

Extenuating circumstance: had a severe injury in August 2023, surgery in Feb 2024, and therefore had to do PT until Fall 2024. I had to withdraw from my CNA training as a result and saw a huge decrease in my GPA and general ability to do any ECs. If you remove that year's grades from my GPA, it's around 3.95 (science GPA around 3.87)*

Is there any chance at all I get into a program this year, or should I just take another gap year? It'd be my 2nd gap but I'd actually have some clinical hours to apply with lol

I was hoping to apply this cycle, but I only got a clinical job this past month. By the time May 28 comes around, I'll only have about 15 clinical hours. However, my projected hours is ~2000 hours for the next 1 year.

My MCAT is 517 (513 first attempt), cGPA is 3.87, and sGPA is ~3.5-3.6. I have ~300h volunteering, 25h shadowing, and ~2000h research (with 1 mid-author publication, another mid-author pending, and 1 first-author publication to be submit within the next couple weeks; I also have 2 poster presentations). Went to a t20 undergrad, originally from Ohio with ties to Michigan. ORM south asian male

However, a good portion of my research hours do come from human clinical research if that means anything

I do have the extenuating circumstance of suffering a severe injury in fall 2023. I had surgery in Feb 2024 and had to do PT until the fall of 2024. I had to withdraw from my CNA training as a result.

I already got my LORs and personal statement ready and really don't want to wait another year to apply so I'm hoping to get some advice. My goal is just to make it into any MD school

Is my app gonna get lowkey autorejected lol?? Thank you all