MD Non-trad, 3.36 cGPA, 3.6 sGPA, 4.0 post-bacc, 35 MCAT

[burntheblobs]

California resident. I am a non-trad career changer. I enrolled in a post-bacc a few years after undergrad and after I had already been working in an unrelated field. My post-bacc consisted of 30+ units and all of my science pre-requisites. My undergrad performance was a 3.2, but I had a strong upward trend as I moved through (2.4 my first two semesters, and a 3.8 my final semester).

Volunteering:
-Pediatric clinic at a well known research hospital (2 years, once a month for 4 hours/shift)
-Med-Surg floor of a level-1 trauma center hospital with a very diverse and under-served population (1 year, 1-2x/week for 4 hours/shift
-Dog companion at a local humane society (2 years, weekly 2 hours/shift)

Shadowing:
-I have shadowed the physicians at the clinic I volunteered at for a few hours

ECs:
-I am an amateur boxer (I have actually had a sanctioned fight, in addition to sparring)
-I support myself with an internet business that I founded and a non-internet business that I founded
-I tutor the basic sciences to high school kids

My primaries were sent the other day, and I have applied to 33 schools. I am wondering what you guys think my chances are at some of the reachier schools I have picked:

UCLA
Dartmouth
Mayo
Brown
Univ of Cincinnati
Tufts

Is it a waste of money to send out a secondary if I get them from these schools? I realize I am pretty research and GPA light. Thank you all!

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[Goro]

Lots of schools send out secondaries no matter what the merit of the candidate. However, you are in very good shape. A lot of schools value reinvention.

I don't know about the other schools on your list, but I suggest:

Tufts
NYMC
Albany
Vanderbilt
Case
SUNY-Upstate
Wayne State
USC
UCD
UCLA
UCI
BU
Tulane
Any other low-tier MD school
Any new MD school
Any DO program (Western and TUCOM-CA are in your backyard)

 

[burntheblobs]

I definitely applied to a chunk of schools that you listed. I guess I am more wondering how some of those more competitive schools will look at my GPA. Are there just so many perfect students that my app will get thrown in the trash?

 

[Pdoc387]

California resident. I am a non-trad career changer. I enrolled in a post-bacc a few years after undergrad and after I had already been working in an unrelated field. My post-bacc consisted of 30+ units and all of my science pre-requisites. My undergrad performance was a 3.2, but I had a strong upward trend as I moved through (2.4 my first two semesters, and a 3.8 my final semester).

Volunteering:
-Pediatric clinic at a well known research hospital (2 years, once a month for 4 hours/shift)
-Med-Surg floor of a level-1 trauma center hospital with a very diverse and under-served population (1 year, 1-2x/week for 4 hours/shift
-Dog companion at a local humane society (2 years, weekly 2 hours/shift)

Shadowing:
-I have shadowed the physicians at the clinic I volunteered at for a few hours

ECs:
-I am an amateur boxer (I have actually had a sanctioned fight, in addition to sparring)
-I support myself with an internet business that I founded and a non-internet business that I founded
-I tutor the basic sciences to high school kids

My primaries were sent the other day, and I have applied to 33 schools. I am wondering what you guys think my chances are at some of the reachier schools I have picked:

UCLA
Dartmouth
Mayo
Brown
Univ of Cincinnati
Tufts

Is it a waste of money to send out a secondary if I get them from these schools? I realize I am pretty research and GPA light. Thank you all!

How were your primaries sent out? Doesn't AMCAS send it out June 27th?

 

[burntheblobs]

I've submitted them is what I mean. They aren't verified yet, but they should be by the 27th.

 

[Pdoc387]

I've submitted them is what I mean. They aren't verified yet, but they should be by the 27th.

Best of luck with that. AMCAS takes forever. I literally submitted mine on June whatever date it was and a half hr. later I was verified.

 

[burntheblobs]

At the rate they have been processing (per sdn verification thread), mine should be verified on the 24th!