What are my chances? Any school application recommendations?
~100 hours shadowing a MD
~100 hours shadowing a MD
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510 MCAT, 2.9 GPA
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Low GPA. Stale, cookie cutter extracurriculars. Do you play sports? Volunteer in underserved communities? Partake in hobbies? Speak a second language?
What's your race?
Currently there isn't much that makes your app standout.
Btw, give us a school list so we can guage your chances.
But here's some schools of the top of my head:
Rosalind Franklin
Drexel
LSU
U of Puerto Rico
What's your race?
Currently there isn't much that makes your app standout.
Btw, give us a school list so we can guage your chances.
But here's some schools of the top of my head:
Rosalind Franklin
Drexel
LSU
U of Puerto Rico
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Any clinical experience? ( Not shadowing)
Not all schools consider international students. You’ll have to get the MSAR and make a list of schools that accept International students. Frankly, your GPA is too low for MD and awfully low for DO. In addition your ECs are really weak. You should probably look into the DO schools that accept International students and forget MD at this point.
Not all schools consider international students. You’ll have to get the MSAR and make a list of schools that accept International students. Frankly, your GPA is too low for MD and awfully low for DO. In addition your ECs are really weak. You should probably look into the DO schools that accept International students and forget MD at this point.
Clinical experience as in research yes, but nothing as in a scribe
What type of EC's would help boost my application?
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I dont think most research count as clinical. Moreso stuff like hospital volunteering, hospice care, etc. Do you have any of that?
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I’m not sure any of your research would count as clinical experience. You need experience interacting with patients in a hospital, hospice, medical clinic, planned parenthood etc.. It looks like you need nonclinical volunteering too. That means serving the unserved/underserved in your community. Think homeless shelters, soup kitchens, Habitat for Humanity etc.. You need to step outside your comfort zone and work with people less fortunate than yourself. You should look to get at least 150+ hours each of clinical and non clinical work. Also it would be good if you found a primary care doc to shadow for a couple of days. Other than that you are okay with shadowing.
Your Masters degree won’t help with your GPA for MD schools but DO schools do use it .
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When are you applying? You need hundreds of hours of clinical and non clinical experiences.
Yes post bacc courses do help with your undergrad GPA. With a 3.06 GPA you would need several semesters of full time upper level science courses where you earn As or at least>3.7. It’s not that your GPA would increase much but if you can do well in the courses over several semesters(like 3-4) you might be able to convince ADCOMS that you are up to the rigors of med school.
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Have you submitted your primary application? Have you been verified?
If you haven’t , I think you should wait at least a year probably more. (Besides it’s awfully late to be submitting a primary). You have no clinical or nonclinical experiences. Your GPA is too low for MD. (You might not even make it through a preset auto screen for GPAs.) If you have submitted your primary you probably shouldn’t submit any secondaries. It’s kind of pointless. International applicants are expected to have flawless applications. You have to be better than American applicants. Any one of your deficiencies could prevent you from getting interviews and you have several issues you need to address.
There are many American schools that are known for grade deflation and still students do well or at least better than 3.06. So trying to explain your low GPA might come off as big excuses. You are at the point where you have to prove you will be successful. And applying without clinical experience won’t come off well at all.
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UPR does not consider mainlanders.
LSU matriculated exactly one international.
Drexel matriculated exactly none.
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You meant improve/strengthen weaknesses.
OP. Your app is very weak as an international applicant. It would be wise to not apply this year and skip next year as well to improve your app/extracurricular. You will need to do a smp since your aim is MD schools. Your masters will bear no weigh in the eyes of MD adcoms.
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Sorry to say this to fellow Canadian 🙁 but others are right - your app isn't ready for MD. Canadian-accepting school with lowest stat is Michigan State's 3.68/507. Don't apply this year, at least not to MD - it won't work. Applying next year after applying this year is also a spectacularly bad idea since your app needs more than a year to repair and it'll only leave two scarlet letters of Reapplicant (international) to your app. Give it several years to improve and then apply for the first time.
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