WAMC: First Gen, URM, Upward Trend GPA, 501 MCAT

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Hello! Posting for a friend who is applying this cycle. She is a URM, non-trad applicant, & disadvantaged.

GPA: 3.8 cGPA, 3.7 sGPA, strong upward trend

MCAT: 501 (2nd attempt - increase from previous attempt)

1. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): FL
2. Ethnicity and/or race: Black
3. Undergraduate institution or category: Large public school
4. Clinical Experience: ~80 hours clinical volunteering (helping with elderly & helping at a free clinic), over 5000 hours of clinical work experience mostly working with the elderly
5. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: ~60 hours (only virtual shadowing; a variety of specialties)
6. Non-Clinical Volunteering: ~400 hours -- helping w/ elderly & being a part of non-profit that builds homes for the underserved
7: Research: Slightly less than 400 Hours w/ 1 publication.
8. Other Extracurricular activities: was a TA, worked a non-clinical job as camp counselor
9. Anything else -- overall theme on my app was geared towards geriatrics, would like to go to a primary care-focused school

MD School list:
1. Meharry
2. Charles Drew
3. Howard
4. Morehouse
5. FSU
6. UF
7. UCF
8. Stanford - dream school
9. Tulane
10. FIU
11. Nova (MD)
12. FAU
13. Oakland
14. Penn State
15. Albany
16. MCW
17. Univ of Illinois
18. UAB (she loves Alabama so she applied - she knows about the heavy IS bias)
19. Wright State
20. Quinnipiac
21. Toledo
22. Wayne State
23. Louisville
24. Vermont
25. Rush - notified (denied secondary)
26. Temple

^^ She already added these schools on her primary prior to asking me to post this for her. She would like to add 4 more MD schools to make it 30 total.

DO List:
1. Nova
2. MSU
3. OU Heritage
4. Univ of Pikeville Kentucky

She only has 4 DO schools so far. She's wanting to stop at 4 DO schools (due to cost) but will consider a few extra schools., if needed.


Thank you! :)

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Remove OU Heritage since they admit very few non residents. for MD schools consider these:
Miami
TCU
Drexel
Hackensack
Definitely add more DO schools and consider these:
ACOM
WCU-COM
VCOM (all 4 schools)
PCOM Georgia and South Georgia
UIWSOM
WVSOM
MU-COM
 
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