Accept DO vs Reapply: High Stat, Low EC

[medDawgbruh]

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I’ve been accepted to a pretty good DO program. I’m very grateful, but also am wanting to get into a really competitive residency.

I had a few interviews for MD with T10 schools, but they turned into rejections or waitlists. (I feel I may have not sounded very research-oriented at some research-centered schools. Or maybe I just don’t have a personality [emoji2957])

My stats are quite high(LM 83). I’ve got a lot of non clinical volunteer hours and paid clinical hours. However, I only have about 50 research hours, few shadowing hours, and few leadership hours.

I just graduated and have moved relatively far from my college (due to housing and work opportunities). Therefore, I’m not sure what research or leadership opportunities I would have.

Considering all of this, should I matriculate at the DO school and just work hard there or work on what EC’s I can, work on my essays/interviewing, and reapply?
Curious for outside opinions. Thanks in advance!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums. We don't have your profile to make a judgment on your chances for reapplying. You have kept everything vague for a reason, but you applied to a DO school knowing your application deficits. There's no guarantee you would get accepted anywhere else since we don't have a sense where you need to improve.

Take your acceptance. Why go through this process again?

 

[ophthoaspirant]

An MD from an unranked program or even some Tier 3 programs is only marginally better than DO from a good program when it comes to residency prospects based on recent trends and a strong Step 2 score and LORs can even things out. Even MDs from Tier 1 and Tier 2 medical schools are taking 1 or 2 gap research years between M2 and M3 to land top residencies and more applicants are applying for MD-PhD or DO-PhD to stand out with regards to research.