hi everyone, currently have 0 IIs and am prepping for a re-app. I'm trying to pinpoint what exactly to work on for the next application cycle, and all I can think of is applying earlier (most of my apps this cycle were complete end of august-mid September), getting more non-clinical volunteering hours, or retaking my current MCAT (507 125/127/125/130). i've been looking at the live feed on here for weeks and have seen people with my score and similar GPA (3.78) get IIs, and I know there's obviously more to our applications than just stats, but it really feels horrible waiting like this. here are other parts of my app.

Double majors in Biology & English; CS and philosophy minors; Dean’s List 6 semesters; graduated with Honors

Research: ~3,000 hours across OCD clinical, computational biology, and humanities research; multiple poster/oral presentations (including a national conference) w/ 1 peer-reviewed humanities research publication

Clinical Experience: 1500 hours as ED scribe; 60 hours for shadowing (psychiatry, ED)

Paid Non-Clinical: 210 hours as camp counselor for children with special needs; 150 hours essay tutor

Volunteering/Service: 125 hours as Crisis Text Line counselor; 80 hours as suicide prevention advocacy (idk what else to call this i basically worked with my high school to add mental health resources and therapy appointments for the students); 160 hours helping with the disability support services at my college; 80 hours rehab facility

Extracurriculars & Leadership: 210 hours as apprentice teacher for a Health, Med, & Society Course; Editorial roles (undergrad literary magazine, grad film magazine); Social media chair for my undergrad premed club; didn’t include this in my app but my LOR writer likely mentioned it; i did about a year of public health volunteering/research

Random Stuff: 2 awarded undergrad research grants; merit scholarship for grad school; around 10 poetry publications + 2 film review essay publications (idk if admissions people care but it’s in my app anyways); over a 3 year period, i won 11 creative writing cash prizes at my undergrad in different things (philosophy, poetry, english essay, etc)

UPDATE STUFF (recent things i started after submitting my application, which i talked about in my update letters):

part-time research assistant in meta-analysis of addiction treatment clinical trials

weekly tutoring of U.S. immigrant in high school

my 2 grad classes i started for this semester

**and no this is not a shitpost LOL