advice on school list. Please help!

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Black Mamba Gene

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Hi I am applying pretty late to osteopathic medical schools (only applying DO). I had a lot of stuff going on with work and family which delayed my application but I am submitting my primary application today or tomorrow.

My undergrad gpa: 3.32
my science gpa: 3.26
post bacc
gpa: 3.7 (only 3 semester classes - all upper div science)

UC Davis B.S. in psychology

MCAT: 128/123/128/128 (507)

extracurriculars:
- American Cancer Society road to recovery volunteer (1.5 years)
- BPSHI student run clinic volunteer (4 years)
- Seva - selfless service at my gurdwara - (church) since HS
- Barista at starbucks: 1.5 years during undergrad
- ER Medical scribe - 8 months
- Administrative assistant at a transportation company - 6 months before covid hit
- shadowing (3 weeks -45 hours)
- Chemo angels volunteer (current)

Age: 26

I have saved up enough to apply to around 18 DO schools. Can anyone help me with a school list please that gives me the best chance of getting into medical school. I am a California resident.

Thank you for your time.

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This was my school list.
My stats were much less than yours and I was granted multiple acceptances thus far in the cycle.

  • LECOM all schools
  • ACOM
  • UP-KYCOM
  • WVSOM
  • MU-COM
  • ATSU-SOMA
  • PCOM-GA
  • PCOM-SGA
  • OU-HCOM
  • Touro
  • Western
  • COMP-Northwest
  • MSUCOM
  • LMU-DCOM
  • ARCOM
  • NYIT-AR
  • WCU-COM
  • UIWCOM
  • ICOM
  • BCOM
  • CHSU-COM
 
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This was my school list.
My stats were much less than yours and I was granted multiple acceptances thus far in the cycle.

  • LECOM all schools
  • ACOM
  • UP-KYCOM
  • WVSOM
  • MU-COM
  • ATSU-SOMA
  • PCOM-GA
  • PCOM-SGA
  • OU-HCOM
  • Touro
  • Western
  • COMP-Northwest
  • MSUCOM
  • LMU-DCOM
  • ARCOM
  • NYIT-AR
  • WCU-COM
  • UIWCOM
  • ICOM
  • BCOM
  • CHSU-COM
Thank you so much for this list. I ended up using all of it to apply!! And added 5-6 more schools that I really liked as well
 
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Thank you so much for this list. I ended up using all of it to apply!! And added 5-6 more schools that I really liked as well

I will add that some of these schools have a regional bias. I am from Florida and I was rejected rather quickly to some of the OOS schools. However my stats were so low that I needed to apply to any that would even look at my application. Good luck!
 
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