Advice to strengthen application

[whitefang21]

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I am a non-trad graduated 4 years ago with a 3.1 GPA and 2.9SGPA. The questions i am faced with is how do you build your application to show that you are a well rounded person when you are working 42 hour weeks and studying for the mcats. How important is volunteer service?

Application Timeline
What is the application timeline, i know amcas opens in may and start to submit in June1st.
1) when do you request letters of recommendation?
2) Do you submit the LOR to amcas or the schools individually?


Thanks

 

[dmf2682]

I am a non-trad graduated 4 years ago with a 3.1 GPA and 2.9SGPA. The questions i am faced with is how do you build your application to show that you are a well rounded person when you are working 42 hour weeks and studying for the mcats. How important is volunteer service?

Application Timeline
What is the application timeline, i know amcas opens in may and start to submit in June1st.
1) when do you request letters of recommendation?
2) Do you submit the LOR to amcas or the schools individually?


Thanks

No offense but I think you need to do more important things than show off how well rounded you are...

 

[lpmuhammad]

Although I have not been accepted as of yet, I can give you a couple of pointers that I have learned so far:

- MD schools have very little interest in how well-rounded you are unless you have high grades/MCAT scores. While in the real world your grades are ok, in this realm they are not noteworthy, so your best bet is to do the best you can to get a VERY high score on the MCAT to help offset your GPA. Obviously the ideal is to have superior MCAT scores along with a high gpa, but if it isn't feasible to re-take your science classes for higher grades then really blow the MCAT out of the water.

- LOR's are submitted to AMCAS if you are applying to MD schools. They have a section specifically for this in the application online.

- Volunteer service is vital if you are not currently working in healthcare, and if you do not have a history of patient interaction. Do your best to get volunteer work that provides regular patient contact.

Hope this helps.

 

[cabinbuilder]

Do a post bacc year on your own, take all the science pre-req's at the same time and gets A's in all of them. Then take the MCAT and get a good score.

Be sure you apply DO since those numbers of yours will not fly on the MD side even with retakes. DO side has grade replacement.

I know it can be done since this is how I did it 4 years after I graduated. I took all the pre-req's I needed to get the high grades in, worked 32 hours a week, and applied DO. It took a few years to get in but here we are.