premedguy101
Full Member
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2025
- Messages
- 18
- Reaction score
- 34
Hello,
I'm reapplying this upcoming cycle, but I'm not sure what schools to apply/reapply to.
Overall GPA: 3.98
Science GPA: 4.00
Bio-Chem-Physics GPA: 4.00
MCAT: 524
State of Residence: MI
Major: Neuroscience (12/2023)
Minority? No
Reapplicant? Yes
Nontrad? No
Shadowing Experience: ~100 with a rural pulmonologist at his clinic and the hospital. ~4 hours general surgery. ~2 hours vascular surgery. All of these are part of the same experience.
Volunteering Experience: ~100 hours food pantry, ~200+ hours clinic office assistant (scheduling patients, sorting paperwork, etc), ~150 hours clinical volunteer for free eye care program, and new activity for this year: senior memory center volunteer (~80 hours)
Employment: ~600 hours medical assistant (complete), ~800 hours medical scribe with oncology (ongoing; 245 when I applied last year), and new activity for this year: ~400+ hours EMT (ongoing; when I applied last year, I only stated that I was taking a summer EMT course)
Research: ~250 neuroscience lab (course credit + summer work), ~1000+ cardiology/nephrology lab w/ 1 poster presentation. No pubs.
Other Extracurriculars: Co-founder of foreign language debate club, HEMA (hobby), and new activity for this year: co-founder of non-profit focused on doing health screenings in nearby underserved areas, ~40 hours biochem tutor,
Relevant Honors or Awards:
LOR type and strength: 5 last year (3 profs, 2 research), will be reusing the same letters w/ some edits from writers. Was unable to obtain new letters this year.
School list:
Last year's school list: Boston University, Albert Einstein, Case Western Reserve, Central Michigan University, Drexel University, Emory University, Geisel Dartmouth, George Washington University, Georgetown, Kaiser Permanente, Michigan State University, Oakland University, Ohio State University, Sidney Kimmel Thomas Jefferson, University of Toledo, Tufts, University of Chicago, University of Cincinnati, University of Colorado, University of Miami, University of Michigan, Wayne State, Western Michigan.
From this cycle, I got 4 IIs (Cinci, Miami, Georgetown, Colorado), which resulted in 2 post-II rejections (Georgetown and Colorado) and 2 WL (Cinci and Miami), so I def need to work on my interview skills. Who knows, maybe Miami and Cinci will pull through 🙂
This year's (tentative) school list:
Central Michigan University, Michigan State University, University of Toledo, Oakland University, Drexel, University of Iowa, University of Vermont, Wayne State, Thomas Jefferson (Kimmel), Tufts, University of Colorado, University of Miami, Western Michigan University, Albert Einstein, Dartmouth, Emory University School of Medicine, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, Kaiser Permanente, Boston University School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Rochester, University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, Vanderbilt, USF Morsani, Wisconsin, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth, MSU DO Program, Rocky Vista University, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine ---> want to add 1 more DO school, may remove UVermont.
I was also initially considering a one-year Master's program / SMP, though I was told this would not help me at all, so I will likely not pursue it (though more input on that would be much appreciated).
If I could get some advice on building a brand new school list, including DO schools, that would be much appreciated! Here's my biggest concern: I'm not sure if it's worth applying to some of the same schools I applied to last year, since my only new activities will be a) the new clinical job I obtained last fall, b) the volunteer role I only recently started, and c) the new org I only just began, and I heard that reapplicants need to demonstrate some serious changes.
Thank you!
I'm reapplying this upcoming cycle, but I'm not sure what schools to apply/reapply to.
Overall GPA: 3.98
Science GPA: 4.00
Bio-Chem-Physics GPA: 4.00
MCAT: 524
State of Residence: MI
Major: Neuroscience (12/2023)
Minority? No
Reapplicant? Yes
Nontrad? No
Shadowing Experience: ~100 with a rural pulmonologist at his clinic and the hospital. ~4 hours general surgery. ~2 hours vascular surgery. All of these are part of the same experience.
Volunteering Experience: ~100 hours food pantry, ~200+ hours clinic office assistant (scheduling patients, sorting paperwork, etc), ~150 hours clinical volunteer for free eye care program, and new activity for this year: senior memory center volunteer (~80 hours)
Employment: ~600 hours medical assistant (complete), ~800 hours medical scribe with oncology (ongoing; 245 when I applied last year), and new activity for this year: ~400+ hours EMT (ongoing; when I applied last year, I only stated that I was taking a summer EMT course)
Research: ~250 neuroscience lab (course credit + summer work), ~1000+ cardiology/nephrology lab w/ 1 poster presentation. No pubs.
Other Extracurriculars: Co-founder of foreign language debate club, HEMA (hobby), and new activity for this year: co-founder of non-profit focused on doing health screenings in nearby underserved areas, ~40 hours biochem tutor,
Relevant Honors or Awards:
LOR type and strength: 5 last year (3 profs, 2 research), will be reusing the same letters w/ some edits from writers. Was unable to obtain new letters this year.
School list:
Last year's school list: Boston University, Albert Einstein, Case Western Reserve, Central Michigan University, Drexel University, Emory University, Geisel Dartmouth, George Washington University, Georgetown, Kaiser Permanente, Michigan State University, Oakland University, Ohio State University, Sidney Kimmel Thomas Jefferson, University of Toledo, Tufts, University of Chicago, University of Cincinnati, University of Colorado, University of Miami, University of Michigan, Wayne State, Western Michigan.
From this cycle, I got 4 IIs (Cinci, Miami, Georgetown, Colorado), which resulted in 2 post-II rejections (Georgetown and Colorado) and 2 WL (Cinci and Miami), so I def need to work on my interview skills. Who knows, maybe Miami and Cinci will pull through 🙂
This year's (tentative) school list:
Central Michigan University, Michigan State University, University of Toledo, Oakland University, Drexel, University of Iowa, University of Vermont, Wayne State, Thomas Jefferson (Kimmel), Tufts, University of Colorado, University of Miami, Western Michigan University, Albert Einstein, Dartmouth, Emory University School of Medicine, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, Kaiser Permanente, Boston University School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Rochester, University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, Vanderbilt, USF Morsani, Wisconsin, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth, MSU DO Program, Rocky Vista University, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine ---> want to add 1 more DO school, may remove UVermont.
I was also initially considering a one-year Master's program / SMP, though I was told this would not help me at all, so I will likely not pursue it (though more input on that would be much appreciated).
If I could get some advice on building a brand new school list, including DO schools, that would be much appreciated! Here's my biggest concern: I'm not sure if it's worth applying to some of the same schools I applied to last year, since my only new activities will be a) the new clinical job I obtained last fall, b) the volunteer role I only recently started, and c) the new org I only just began, and I heard that reapplicants need to demonstrate some serious changes.
Thank you!
Last edited:
