MD & DO WAMC: URM, 25MCAT, 3.4uGPA, 3.9gradGPA

[cmn2207]

I'm posting for my SO who is applying. More info here:

She's a nontrad, URM, who is wrapping up an MPH and has an undergrad double degree. She has taught middle school science, been an ED scribe, a research assistant, and has done bench research, presentations, conferences, honors thesis, e-board of pre-med society at undergraduate institution, etc. All the ECs are there.

uGPA is about 3.4 with about the same sGPA, grad school GPA for her MPH program is about 3.9. The issue is the MCAT. She's taken it 3 times, 22, 23, and 25 in that order. Each time she taken it she has not had a good amount of dedicated time to study for it, usually working full time or taking classes and working full time, only leaving her time to study for the MCAT in the afternoon or late evening. The most recent 25 was from the 9/18/14 test, but as the score came back later and lower than she would have wanted we are not sure if she will get any interviews this cycle. She waited to submit secondaries until after that score came back, but being Mid-October/Early November it might be too late to expect any interviews.

So the question aside from WAMC is should she retake the MCAT in April with more studying to prepare and brace for the next cycle or just apply with what she has and make sure that it is early enough to get looked at.

Note: her composite score of the highest individual section scores is a 28.

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[gyngyn]

Which community does she represent?
Where did she apply?

 

[cmn2207]

Which community does she represent?

Hispanic, first generation. She's been in the US since the end of high school and became a citizen near the end of college.

 

[cmn2207]

Which community does she represent?
Where did she apply?

She applied to the northeast schools in the low-mid MD range as well as every DO school in the northeast (NYIT, PCOM, UNECOM, MWU, Touro) MD schools include GW, Drexel, NYMC, Temple, Rush, Rosalind Franklin, St. Louis, Tufts. We're in the Boston area and the MPH is at Tufts so we thought that might help at tufts.

She was rejected early from Cooper, Vermont, Georgetown before sending the updated MCAT.

 

[gyngyn]

Hispanic, first generation. She's been in the US since the end of high school and became a citizen near the end of college.

Which Hispanic community?

 

[cmn2207]

Which Hispanic community?

South American, she was born in Peru.

 

[gyngyn]

South American, she was born in Peru.

Peruanos are not generally considered under-represented in medicine, but her language skills would still be valuable.
She is a fair candidate for some DO schools and a long shot for most of the MD schools listed.

 

[cmn2207]

Peruanos are not generally considered under-represented in medicine, but her language skills would still be valuable.
She is a fair candidate for some DO schools and a long shot for most of the MD schools listed.

So would you think taking the MCAT again would be a good idea or is the number of retakes a problem? Even if she scores in the 30+ range (whatever score that translates to on the 2015 test)?

 

[gyngyn]

So would you think taking the MCAT again would be a good idea or is the number of retakes a problem? Even if she scores in the 30+ range (whatever score that translates to on the 2015 test)?

Sometimes people just plateau. I think she would have stood a decent chance at the three Puerto Rican schools that accept mainlanders and several more of the DO schools with an early application.

 

[sat0ri]

Peruanos are not generally considered under-represented in medicine, but her language skills would still be valuable.
She is a fair candidate for some DO schools and a long shot for most of the MD schools listed.

Peruvians, right?

 

[cmn2207]

Peruvians, right?

Yes. Peruvian=peruanos. Peruanos is Spanish