MD & DO School list/chances?

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Anyone? Maybe my post is too long.

 

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I suggest any DO school and only your state schools, unless you live in CA.

Hi all, I have posted on here before with the incomplete picture, but I now have basically all my info now.

So I'm a non traditional student. I have a 3.2 undergrad GPA (yikes). If you discount my horrible semester that got me suspended from school (.6xx GPA), I would have a 3.5-3.6 GPA overall. (I withdrew the term before as well, there was tons of family issues).

Anyway, if I apply DO I will have a 3.5-3.6 science and overall GPA for Post Bach and undergrad. If I go MD I'm guessing 3.3-3.4

I just received my percentile ranges for the mcat
-82-97 for chem/phy, CARS, and Bio
-70-85 psych (disappointed, didn't study because I majored in psych)
-Overall: 82-92 (31-33 if this was the old mcat?)

-I have around 100 hours in the Emergency Department
-TA for 4 semesters (psych/bio/2 physics classes)
-School ambassador - 1 semester
-Orientation leader - two day event
-Worked for a government program for poor pregnant mothers (7 months b4 starting post bach where I worked with health professionals)
- hundreds of hours with a pet rescue
- hundreds of ours with a non profit helping underprivileged individuals in my community
- 8 months at a senior center
-worked in a pharmacy for years (cashier)
-two years at a summer day camp
-3 semesters as a research assistant
-had other jobs that during college including my own "businesses" (tutor, hair dresser, iPhones "specialist" (mods), flipping electronics (phones and video gaming systems).
- Might be forgetting some things.

Most of this was done during my PB or started before and continued during.

My biggest concern is that I don't have any shadowing! I have recently talked to a doc that was acquired by an hospital and he agreed to let me shadow, but I have to go through the hospital process (which may take awhile). He knows my goal is to get a LOR.

Basically I want to know if I should even try MD? Or DO only? Also, which schools would you suggest? (I'm an African American female from the Midwest ).

My goal is to become a doctor, I don't really care about the letters.

(Sorry about punctuation/capitalization errors. I'm on a tablet that stuff really slows me down. Lol)

Edit: 2 strong scien LOR, 1 strong pharmD (mentor), strong volunteer LOR. Just need a doctor!

 

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I suggest any DO school and only your state schools, unless you live in CA.

So even with the lack of shadowing I have a chance? (I don't have any yet, but may be able to get 10-20 hours in this month. Just waiting on the hospital orientation)

 

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Does anyone have suggestions on my school list?

I was thinking:
-All Michigan Schools (DO+MD)
-All Ohio schools (DO+MD)
-Commonwealth
-Drexel
-University of Illinois
-Rush
-Loyola
-Rosalind Franklin
-PCOM
-CCOM
-MUCOM
-LECOM

I know some of these are probably stretches but I'm thinking I will have a better chance with schools in my region (Michigan resident).

Truthfully I don't know anyone who has went or even attempted to go to medical school (non trad applicant so I can't say I have gotten super close to anyone in my PB science course). Any more help will be greatly appreciated.

Again I don't care about the letters next to my name in the end, only that I achieve my goal.

Thanks in advance guys.

 

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Final MD School list. Any thoughts, let me know please. I would like to get the list down to 15. I basically used the MSAR to pick out of state schools in the midwest and applied to all of my state schools (Michigan).

Besides MSUCOM, I'm not sure what to use as a guide for DO. Any specific suggestions would be appreciated.

Also, I want to work with underserved groups and I am not really research focused (as of now anyway, but I don't want to cut it completely out).

Thanks guys.