MD & DO 3.82 cGPA, 3.72 sGPA, 25 MCAT, Masters Degree

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  • 24 Asian M
  • GPA is overall between UG and Graduate.
  • Undergrad cGPA: 3.80, sGPA: 3.70
  • Graduate cGPA: 3.92, sGPA: 4.00
  • MCAT is 7 P / 8 V / 10 B (Old version-2012)
  • Double major in Bio and Psych in UG
  • Finished Master's Degree in Biomedical Health Informatics from UT Health Science Center Houston this Summer 2015
  • State of Residency : TX
  • 200+ volunteer hours in hospitals
  • ~105 clinical shadowing hours of different doctors (Anesthesia [52 hrs], Surgery, OBGYN, Peds, Pulmonary ICU, ER)
  • Employed at a family practice as a medical assistant and lead EHR implementation manager. Successfully met Meaningful Use Stage I, helped in quality assurance during transition process from paper to EHR, helped in transition of patient care through specialist referrals, medical data entry, and some administration stuff as well. Clocked 993 total hours in just under 12 months of employment
  • Internship with Harris Health County Hospital System for 142 hours to research and do workflow analysis of a hospital's ED + OR departments. Finished internship with a practicum paper that was a requirement for graduating from Masters program.

Would love to hear thoughts on chances...I applied to all TX schools both MD and DO and am most likely going to look at other DO schools OOS (is it too late?). All suggestions and feedback are welcome! Thank you SDN

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1) The masters won't do much for your medical school chances
2) What's your undergrad GPA only: that's what matters.

Assuming the undergrad GPA is still say 3.4+(give or take a little) you are a viable candidate for a decent number of DO schools. I don't think MD will be happening even in Texas regardless of GPA with a 25. Double check and make sure which schools will still accept a 2012 MCAT score.
 
@GrapesofRath, thanks for your feedback. I included my undergraduate cGPA and sGPA in the original post. And yeah all TX schools accept 2012 MCATs, will have to double check if the DO schools I do apply OOS will go back that far.
 
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@candbgirl, yeah MCAT score isn't competitive for MD schools so I am definitely not applying OOS for MD. Maybe there is a TX+EC bias in one of the TX med schools so theres hoping for an II
 
I think that the MCAT score will be lethal for any MD school outside of TX and most of them inside. You should be fine for most DO schools, but skip KCUMB, the coastal Touros, PCOM, AZCOM and CCOM. I can't recommend LUCOM.



  • GPA is overall between UG and Graduate.
  • Undergrad cGPA: 3.80, sGPA: 3.70
  • Graduate cGPA: 3.92, sGPA: 4.00
  • MCAT is 7 P / 8 V / 10 B (Old version-2012)
  • Double major in Bio and Psych in UG
  • Finished Master's Degree in Biomedical Health Informatics from UT Health Science Center Houston this Summer 2015
  • State of Residency : TX
  • 200+ volunteer hours in hospitals
  • ~105 clinical shadowing hours of different doctors (Anesthesia [52 hrs], Surgery, OBGYN, Peds, Pulmonary ICU, ER)
  • Employed at a family practice as a medical assistant and lead EHR implementation manager. Successfully met Meaningful Use Stage I, helped in quality assurance during transition process from paper to EHR, helped in transition of patient care through specialist referrals, medical data entry, and some administration stuff as well. Clocked 993 total hours in just under 12 months of employment
  • Internship with Harris Health County Hospital System for 142 hours to research and do workflow analysis of a hospital's ED + OR departments. Finished internship with a practicum paper that was a requirement for graduating from Masters program.
Would love to hear thoughts on chances...I applied to all TX schools both MD and DO and am most likely going to look at other DO schools OOS (is it too late?). All suggestions and feedback are welcome! Thank you SDN
 
Thanks for your feedback @Goro, if you had to choose 5 DO schools that were probably suitable for me what would they be? I don't plan on applying broadly to like 20+ DO schools, and I'm having really hard time narrowing down my results through just browsing google and some other threads on SDN. Maybe another perspective can help me?
 
Any five from this list. I'd start with OU since they're closest to TX.

SOMA: 3.45/3.34/27
PCOM-Ga: 3.4/3.5/27 (?)
OSU-COM: 3.66/26
WCU: 3.5/3.4/26 (2013)
ACOM: 3.4/26 (2013)
VCOM (all): 3.6/3.5/25.36
LMU: 3.43/3.35/25-26
KYCOM: 3.50/3.41/24.6




Thanks for your feedback @Goro, if you had to choose 5 DO schools that were probably suitable for me what would they be? I don't plan on applying broadly to like 20+ DO schools, and I'm having really hard time narrowing down my results through just browsing google and some other threads on SDN. Maybe another perspective can help me?
 
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I think that the MCAT score will be lethal for any MD school outside of TX and most of them inside. You should be fine for most DO schools, but skip KCUMB, the coastal Touros, PCOM, AZCOM and CCOM. I can't recommend LUCOM.

Good feedback, just wondering, why did you single out KCUMB for him to skip, when DMU, UNECOM, for example, have higher MCAT averages than KCUMB?
 
I believe that that they, like PCOM, require a minimum of 8 in each of the old categories.

Ah okay. I believe KCUMB is a 7 minimum in each, but good point.
 
I believe that that they, like PCOM, require a minimum of 8 in each of the old categories.

Hey @Goro, thanks for the recommendations. May I ask the source where you see the those GPA/MCAT averages or the minimum MCAT scores in each category? Seems like a good reference to have in my checklist
 
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