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[puahate]

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[Maebea]

With your current stats, your chances are marginal. If you have distinguished yourself in your research and have letters that say you are "in the top 5% of student researchers I have had in my lab", you should get some interviews and quite possibly an acceptance or two. If you can hit 510 on the MCAT, MD admissions committees will relax a bit over you hurting the average MCAT score (this is a thing in most med schools) and you should get more interviews and acceptances. Some MD-PhD programs are given a free rein over admissions, and they tend to be less MCAT sensitive.

 

[medschoolonthemind]

I had a higher GPA than you, but only a 508 MCAT and less research experience. Managed four fully-funded MD/PhD interviews all at schools I would have been thrilled to attend and ended up in a great program. I did apply broadly. It was expensive, but paid off in the end. I wouldn't discount "reach" programs. I was surprised by the schools that were interested compared to those that were not. n=1, but based on reading forums I very nearly held off for a year to retake the MCAT. I'm glad I didn't. Good luck studying!