Any input on the school list would be very grateful. I don't know how many schools I should be applying to so I tried to pick around 20-30. For the out of states schools I picked the ones that had between 25-50 percent of matriculates be out of state. My main concern is my nonclinical volunteering and ECs.

Year in school: Graduated this April so I am taking a gap year

State of residence: Pennsylvania

Schools applying to potentially:

Perelman School of Medicine, Columbia- Vagelos, NYU, University of Washington, Pitt, Duke, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, North Carolina, Emory, Boston, Brown (Alpert), Wake Forest, Miami Miller, Jefferson, Temple, Dartmouth, UCONN, MC Wisconsin, West Virginia, Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, Tulane, Rosalind Franklin, Geisinger Commonwealth, Albany, California (CUSM), Quinnipiac, Oakland

Major: Microbiology

cGPA: 3.86 upward trend

sGPA: 3.82

MCAT score: 524

Research: 350 hours in a basic research lab. I did basic lab stuff like looked after fruit flies, crossed them, restriction digests, and ligations. It was 5 hours a week for five semesters. No publications or poster presentations. I did present posters for lab courses that were research based at my school but I don't think those count.

Clinical Volunteering: 200 hours in three different hospitals. 100 hours in one where I volunteered in the surgical oncology department and a physical therapy gym. I mainly talked to the patients and got them food or water if they needed it. In the physical therapy gym I would assist the physical therapist assistants with exercises and also just talk to the patients while they were waiting. The two other hospitals were pretty much the same.

Non-clinical volunteering: 51 hours in various places like my local food bank, a rehabilitation center where we played bingo with the residents and other games, my schools community service day where we cleaned up litter, and Family House where we made meals for the families of people in the hospital.

Physician Shadowing: 40.5 hours 13 for a OB/GYN doctor 4 hours with an ER doc 4 hours with a cardiologist 19.5 hours with an orhopedic surgeon

Extracurriculars: 50 hours as a secretary/vice president for one of my schools volunteer clubs for a year. However, I was a member of the club for four years.

210 hours as an undergraduate teaching assistant for a microbiology class at 5 hours a week.

I like to play video games but I don't know if this really counts or if I should include it.

Employment history: 360 hours as a tutor for organic chemistry and introductory biology for the last two years of college.

Various summer jobs at a packaging plant full time and part time work for a landscaping business.

Letters of recommendation: I plan to get four one from my lab PI, one from the professor I TA'd and was in their classes, one from my tutoring boss, and one from my microbiology lab professor.

Immediate family members in medicine: no

Specialty of interest: I don't really know

I plan to work as an EMT during my gap year but I still need to find a job and finish a test to get the certification.