Hi all,
Non-Canadian international applicant looking for guidance after a previous unsuccessful cycle. I had applied to 13 schools, all MD/PhD, transferred into the MD pool if the option was available after MD/PhD rejection, and received only one II, from Harvard.
This year, I retook the MCAT and added a new volunteering activity based on feedback from 3 admissions officers at 3 different schools. I also applied to 27 schools, all MD-only, but finished secondaries in late August/early September since my MCAT score came out August 18.
Do I have a good chance at getting in somewhere with these improvements and broader school list? Should I apply to DO schools as well? Thanks for any recommendations you can give, and I'll be happy to give any more details that may be helpful!
cGPA - 3.93
sGPA - 3.97
MCAT
Aug 2013 - 32 (10/11/11)
Jul 2015 - 516 (129/129/130/128)
Clinical Volunteering
- No One Dies Alone, projected 150 hr by fall 2016
- Comfort Cart, 100 hr
Non-clinical Volunteering
- Habitat for Humanity, 200 hr
Shadowing
- general surgery, 20 hr
- emergency medicine, 15 hr
- pediatric endocrinology, 50 hr
Research
- clinical and bench research on a rare disease, ongoing and 2 yr so far
- undergraduate research in 2 labs, 2.5 yr
- 1 co-first author publication of 3 listed in PubMed, out of 5 total
- presented at Pediatric Academic Societies meeting
Employment
- receptionist at buildings & grounds department, 1500 hr
Extracurriculars
- vice president of biology club, 150 hr
- officer of campus EMT team, 300 hr
Extra
- graduated 2013 in 3 years with departmental honors
- Phi Beta Kappa
Schools, listed by median MCAT
Rosalind Franklin
Penn State
NYMC
SUNY Upstate
Dartmouth
Jefferson
Stony Brook
Tulane
Albert Einstein
BU
Duke
Emory
Case Western
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Pitt
UVA
Harvard
Mount Sinai
Northwestern
Stanford
UChicago
Vanderbilt
Cornell
Yale
UPenn
WUSTL
Non-Canadian international applicant looking for guidance after a previous unsuccessful cycle. I had applied to 13 schools, all MD/PhD, transferred into the MD pool if the option was available after MD/PhD rejection, and received only one II, from Harvard.
This year, I retook the MCAT and added a new volunteering activity based on feedback from 3 admissions officers at 3 different schools. I also applied to 27 schools, all MD-only, but finished secondaries in late August/early September since my MCAT score came out August 18.
Do I have a good chance at getting in somewhere with these improvements and broader school list? Should I apply to DO schools as well? Thanks for any recommendations you can give, and I'll be happy to give any more details that may be helpful!
cGPA - 3.93
sGPA - 3.97
MCAT
Aug 2013 - 32 (10/11/11)
Jul 2015 - 516 (129/129/130/128)
Clinical Volunteering
- No One Dies Alone, projected 150 hr by fall 2016
- Comfort Cart, 100 hr
Non-clinical Volunteering
- Habitat for Humanity, 200 hr
Shadowing
- general surgery, 20 hr
- emergency medicine, 15 hr
- pediatric endocrinology, 50 hr
Research
- clinical and bench research on a rare disease, ongoing and 2 yr so far
- undergraduate research in 2 labs, 2.5 yr
- 1 co-first author publication of 3 listed in PubMed, out of 5 total
- presented at Pediatric Academic Societies meeting
Employment
- receptionist at buildings & grounds department, 1500 hr
Extracurriculars
- vice president of biology club, 150 hr
- officer of campus EMT team, 300 hr
Extra
- graduated 2013 in 3 years with departmental honors
- Phi Beta Kappa
Schools, listed by median MCAT
Rosalind Franklin
Penn State
NYMC
SUNY Upstate
Dartmouth
Jefferson
Stony Brook
Tulane
Albert Einstein
BU
Duke
Emory
Case Western
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Pitt
UVA
Harvard
Mount Sinai
Northwestern
Stanford
UChicago
Vanderbilt
Cornell
Yale
UPenn
WUSTL