3.7/501/CA. Help with School List

[yoyo213]

---

Members do not see this ad.

I just got my MCAT score back. And, looking to see if I have a chance at DO schools.
1st attempt: 495 (126/120/125/124) from last July 2020
2nd attempt: 501 (127/121 on CARS/127/126) from April 2021
sGPA: 3.5 cGPA: 3.7, CA resident
Have both MD and DO LOR.

What are the schools that I should apply looking at my low CARS score? Thank you very much for reading this.

 

[yoyo213]

@Faha Could you suggest me some DO schools? I plan to apply DO schools only. Thank you.

 

[Faha]

Do you have any physician shadowing hours or clinical volunteering or employment hours with patient contact ?

 

[yoyo213]

@Faha Yes, I do. My EC looks like this so far:
1) Research for 2 years during undergraduate 300hrs with two poster presentations. No publications though.
2) ER volunteer: 200 hrs
3) Shadowing: ER + IM +FM = 105 hrs total
4) Hospital Volunteer: 600 hrs
5) Free clinic volunteer: 50 hrs. I stopped after COVID last year. Will go back again after summer.
6)Camp Counselor for non-clinical volunteering for Muscular Dystrophy kids during one summer: 144 hrs
7) Mentor/Tutor during undergraduate for 3 yrs: 340 hrs
8)Pre-med Health enrichment program for 1 year: 40 hrs.

 

[yoyo213]

@Goro Would love to hear your inputs as well. Thank you

 

[Goro]

@Goro Would love to hear your inputs as well. Thank you

all LECOMs
all VCOMs except LA
UIW
NYITCOM-AR
KYCOM
WVSOM
MUCOM
ACOM
CUSOM
KCOM
WCU
PacNW

Any DO program, except the Touros, AZCOM and CCOM, for whom your MCAT is too low. PCOM might be iffy. I can't recommend ARCOM, RVU, Nova, BCOM, ICOM and LUCOM, for different reasons. MSUCOM? Read up on Larry Nasser and you decide. LMU has an accreditation warning, which concerns me. Avoid those new schools that haven't graduated a class yet, if at all possible.

 

[MCAT-boy]

CUSOM will screen your app because if the 121 cars. There are a few other schools that will do the same. Make sure not to waste your money on them!