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Hello everyone. I would like to get some advice on whether or not I should join a pre-osteo club. I am worried that joining this club will cause allopathic schools to think I am only interested in osteopathic schools. I will be blunt by saying that I would rather join an MD program because of the residency options that would be available to me in the future (even though I don't know which specialty I would want to do). Now, I know that the residency merger is supposed to be fully implemented by 2020; but from what I can tell, I don't think anybody knows for sure if osteopaths will have better match rates in the more competitive specialties (somebody please provide links to correct me if I am wrong).
The reason I want to join the club is four-fold:
1. I really appreciate the DO philosophy, and I would love to educate other students who are not aware of osteopathic medicine.
2. The club is reasonable small, about 60 students, and I already know more statistics and the process of applying than at least most of the leaders of the club thanks to SDN. In fact, My knowledge impressed them enough to put me right into a leadership position. I need a leadership role.
3. I have no research experience, and they offered me a great shot at getting some; I don't really care about what kind of research because I don't think I am interested in doing it, but we all know that it's a good thing to have these days.
4. If I fail to get into an MD program, I think this would be extremely beneficial to have on my resume for DO schools.
I thought about joining this club, and maybe omitting it from the MD apps, only putting it on the DO apps. What does everyone think about that, if that is even possible? I would love to get some advice from the adcoms as well. For reference, I am a junior this year, and I am planning on applying in June of next year. I have a 3.8 cgpa and sgpa, and over the summer studied hardcore for the MCAT for two months and took a couple tests and got about a 24 on both practice tests I took, verbal was 7, PS and BS was 8-9 (I did not take the real MCAT because of that). I have pretty solid extracurricular and volunteer experiences, but lack research.
TL;DR: Will joining a osteopathic club hinder my opportunities in joining an allopathic school?
The reason I want to join the club is four-fold:
1. I really appreciate the DO philosophy, and I would love to educate other students who are not aware of osteopathic medicine.
2. The club is reasonable small, about 60 students, and I already know more statistics and the process of applying than at least most of the leaders of the club thanks to SDN. In fact, My knowledge impressed them enough to put me right into a leadership position. I need a leadership role.
3. I have no research experience, and they offered me a great shot at getting some; I don't really care about what kind of research because I don't think I am interested in doing it, but we all know that it's a good thing to have these days.
4. If I fail to get into an MD program, I think this would be extremely beneficial to have on my resume for DO schools.
I thought about joining this club, and maybe omitting it from the MD apps, only putting it on the DO apps. What does everyone think about that, if that is even possible? I would love to get some advice from the adcoms as well. For reference, I am a junior this year, and I am planning on applying in June of next year. I have a 3.8 cgpa and sgpa, and over the summer studied hardcore for the MCAT for two months and took a couple tests and got about a 24 on both practice tests I took, verbal was 7, PS and BS was 8-9 (I did not take the real MCAT because of that). I have pretty solid extracurricular and volunteer experiences, but lack research.
TL;DR: Will joining a osteopathic club hinder my opportunities in joining an allopathic school?
