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3.5/305 - School List/WAMC Please!
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Do not apply to ICOM or RVUCOM. These schools are generally not recommended due to RVU's for-profit status and their advertising of of a Caribbean school under the same parent company. The Utah campus also had a very poor match last year. ICOM is too new amongst other reasons.
You have very limited clinical hours and non-clinical volunteering. You also did not do any research, though that is less important for medical school, but a 0 there is not the best. A DO letter would help at DO schools and not hamper you at MD schools. They are processed at 2 separate application services, so you would not even need to send the letter if your state schools do not encourage or require a letter from a physician. You may want to take a gap year before applying as it is likely you will receive very few interviews with your current application. It would be very hard to write a convincing personal statement and answer why medicine in a way that seems genuine to an interviewer.
You have very limited clinical hours and non-clinical volunteering. You also did not do any research, though that is less important for medical school, but a 0 there is not the best. A DO letter would help at DO schools and not hamper you at MD schools. They are processed at 2 separate application services, so you would not even need to send the letter if your state schools do not encourage or require a letter from a physician. You may want to take a gap year before applying as it is likely you will receive very few interviews with your current application. It would be very hard to write a convincing personal statement and answer why medicine in a way that seems genuine to an interviewer.
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That would give you very good chances and depending on how much you can improve your score, a chance at MD schools aside from your state ones.
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Your best chances are the DO schools and you are competitive for all DO schools. Remove ICOM and RVUCOM but you could add theseZ:
CUSOM
MU-COM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
WCU-COM
CUSOM
MU-COM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
WCU-COM
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I agree with the wise Faha
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I see no community service, which will put your application at a real disadvantage, and 50 hours through a school org plus 50 through a hospital org tells me nothing about your service orientation.
