Help with the school list please!

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Hey all!
I'll be applying this year and need help with the school list. Here's a little about myself: first-generation immigrant and a U.S. citizen who came to the U.S. 7 years ago, English is not my first language and basically learned it in high school since I was an ESL student in 10th and 11th grade. I worked in high school and college to support myself and help my parents since they both work minimum wage jobs and dad is in PA school. I'm not URM but I should qualify as an economically disadvantaged since I grew up in an underserved area till 15 and I also have FAP. I graduated from a state school this summer. Here are stats:



· GPA: sGPA is 3.08 and cGPA is 3.22. My MCAT will hopefully be at least a 30 since I have been scoring 33-35 on the practice tests.

• PS: will be themed around serving underserved and immigrants and mainly interested in primary care.

• Volunteering: 250 hours of volunteering at a clinic and 70 hours of teaching at a night school for adults in a village in India, 80 hours of volunteering at hospice & palliative care, 30 hours of leading lessons to teach English to new immigrants and refugees.

• Letters: 1 from a DO, 1 from science faculty/research mentor, 1 from science faculty, 1 from humanities faculty should be strong.

• Research: 2 years in an organic chemistry lab (1 year was funded with a research assistantship), one 2nd author publication, presented posters at 3 conferences, and will be starting NIH IRTA for a year in July.

• Jobs: worked at Subway, library, nursing school. Also, I was a TA was chemistry lab.

Here's the list of M.D. schools:
East Carolina Brody school of medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rosalind Franklin
Drexel
Eastern Virginia
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at FIU
Howard
Indiana University
Jefferson Medical college
Marshall
Medical college of Wisconsin
Merharry
Morehouse
Ohio State
Tulane

Here's the list of D.O schools:
VCOM
VCOM - Carolina campus
PCOM
PCOM- Georgia campus
Campbell
ATSU SOMA
ATSU KCOM
Touro Nevada
Ohio
Rocky Vista
Touro NY
Nova
Kansas City U
UNECOM
NYCOM
Midwestern-AZ
Midwestern IL

I know I don't stand a strong chance but I'll like to try. Please let me know what you think and feel free to suggest new schools/get rid of schools on this list. Should I submit my application now or after I take the MCAT and before the scores are released? I'll be taking the MCAT on July 6. Any help is greatly appreciated. Btw, I'm a NC resident. Thanks in advance!

You are definitely well-rounded (most applicants are), but unfortunately gpa is a major contender. I would recommend checking out DO schools. In regards to your list, IMO:

I do not know about: herbert, howard, meharry, morehouse
I would not recommend: Jefferson, Wisconsin (I think they prefer westerners), IU, OSU, or Tulane
I would recommend: Brody (prob best chance), UNC (might as well!), RFU, Drexel, EVMS, Marshall (IMO: RFU and EVMS are finnicky, it seems really random the people I know that got interviews/acceptances and the people who did not).

Honestly, taking an MCAT that late means your application will not be complete until almost September, and that is pretty late in the game. You might as well submit now if you are set on applying this year (just in case some schools send out secondaries automatically - I don't know if they will without an MCAT), or consider taking a year off to build your GPA, and apply on June 1 next year.

You'd have a lot more success by posting in the "What Are My Chances" Forum

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/forumdisplay.php?f=418

All posts were merged. Put into WAMC. Sorry for the wonky formatting.

Bump...anyone else please?