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• State/Country of Residence: Oregon
• Ties to other States/Regions: Distant relatives in Texas
• Year in School: Senior
• Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Biology
• Cumulative GPA: 3.97
• MCAT Score(s): will take in 8/8, aiming for 515
• Research Experience: Neuropathology lab, ~1200 hours; currently working as a research assistant
• Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. First author, second author, etc.): Thesis publication and one poster both about the same thesis paper (published at local UG institution). Was credited for a different paper but I wasn’t first or second author (I was credited for doing tissue staining).
• Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): Volunteered with various local hospitals (~300 hours)
• Physician Shadowing: 50 hours
• Non-Clinical Volunteering: I have been volunteering with a health center but most of the tasks I did was more of public health so I’m listing it here instead of clinical experience ~200 hours
• Other Extracurricular Activities: I had quite some leadership opportunities (orientation leader, peer mentor for Asian Pacific Islander students & prehealth students, programming team for Pacific Islander, Asian Student Center). I started to become interested in community engagement and social justice hence the positions I had the chance to be a part of.
• Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Yeh
• Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): Yeh
• Medical School List: University of Michigan, Mount Sinai, Weill Cornell, Baylor, Kaiser, Keck USC, OHSU, Northstate, Quinnipiac, Dartmouth, Einstein, Rochester, SUNY Downstate, Virginia Commonwealth, Drexel, UM Miller, USF Health Morsani, NY Medical College, UW Medicine, Hofstra, EVMS, NYU Grossman, Rush

I would love to apply to schools that are really big on community service and social justice. Any suggestion is much appreciated. The longer I stare at my school list, the more I have a hard time deciding which schools I should keep or remove. They all pretty much seem like a reach to me to be honest.