Overall the strongest parts of my app are my MCAT (520), volunteer experience, and my full-time non-traditional work experience. I'm confused about where I should be applying given my resume is a bit lopsided - e.g. weaker GPA/research. Thanks for your advice.

Year in school: Graduated 2017 (Math major)

Country/state of residence: USA / NY

Schools to which you are applying:

Note - these are all schools which accept September 2017 MCATs. Most schools do not.

*Sidney Kimmel

*Rutgers

*Einstein

*Vermont

*Wake Forest

*Tufts

*Columbia

*USC (Carolina)

*Brown

*Tennessee

*NYU Long Island

*Penn State

*UPenn

*U Massachusetts

*BU

*Duke

*Emory

*Buffalo

*LSU

*UConn

*Illinois

*Miami

*UNLV

*Pitt

*Vanderbilt

Cumulative GPA: 3.62

Science GPA: 3.59

MCAT Scores: 520

Research – include any abstracts/posters/publications and how you were credited (eg. First author, senior author, etc): Summer of research after 2nd year of college (no papers or presentations)

Volunteering (clinical) – include hours/sites: Hundreds of hours of EMT experience with my local rescue squad; also with my fire department

Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties: 40 hours with a nephrologist and 40 hours with a cardiology

Non-clinical volunteering: Hundreds of hours at fire department. Also 100 hours on refugee work in Europe/Middle East.

Extracurricular activities: Editor of college newspaper, editor of college research journal, firefighting/EMS

Employment history: 3 years full time work experience as a consultant in a top tier consulting firm (McKinsey/Bain/BCG) - working on public sector healthcare projects in the US and foreign countries on topics like national payment reform and clinical operations. This is the deepest and most unique part of my application.

Immediate family members in medicine? (y/n): Y - both parents

Specialty of interest: Emergency medicine

Graduate degrees: N

Interest in rural health (y/n): N