Any chance for me applying this late?

[phliuy]

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3.27c/3.36s/37S

EMT for private ambulance company
Kaplan instructor
about 100 shadowing hours
200 hours volunteer EMS
200 hours Nursing home volunteer
100 hours post-surgical wing volunteer

Applied to CCOM a couple of weeks ago, applying to more now.

Should I keep going or just save the money and try for it next year?

 

[IslandStyle808]

Next year. Also if your GPA has gone up apply MD (unless you are pro-DO only).

 

[chizledfrmstone]

Did you apply MD?

 

[phliuy]

Next year. Also if your GPA has gone up apply MD (unless you are pro-DO only).

I am all done with school, so unless I go post bac the grades aren't getting any higher.

Thank you.

 

[phliuy]

Did you apply MD?

I did. I rushed my applications, was a little late, and hadn't picked up the EMT gig.

I actually had no idea what DO was until very recently.

 

[bionerd89]

If you are set on attending med school next year then you can try adding more DO schools. It wouldn't hurt to try. I know Touro-Nevada will accept students who applied later in the cycle.

 

[pietachok]

3.27c/3.36s/37S

EMT for private ambulance company
Kaplan instructor
about 100 shadowing hours
200 hours volunteer EMS
200 hours Nursing home volunteer
100 hours post-surgical wing volunteer

Applied to CCOM a couple of weeks ago, applying to more now.

Should I keep going or just save the money and try for it next year?

Wait until next year. When you apply this late, regardless of whether or not it's the case, your application has the stink of being submitted as a back-up by someone panicking at his/her lack of MD offers of admission. I believe the deadlines are set this late by DO programs expressly for collecting the application fees of suckers who do this.

When I applied late with a 3.5 and a 34, I got no interviews. With the same application at the beginning of the cycle just a few months later, I got interviews at every program except the 2 requiring a DO LOR. Nobody likes to feel like they're a back-up plan. And the only alternative is that you're submitting apps late in a hugely life-altering process -- which makes you look unprepared, apathetic, uninformed, or something equally unflattering.

 

[AlbinoHawk DO]

I agree it is too late for this cycle. If you at least had your primary application in, I'd say submit the secondary and see.

 

[chizledfrmstone]

I did. I rushed my applications, was a little late, and hadn't picked up the EMT gig.

I actually had no idea what DO was until very recently.

If you haven't shadowed a DO yet then apply next year. Pretty much what pietachok said.

You would need to get your LORs in, transcripts in, primary sent. In mid march you would have your secondaries turned over and by then there are probably no interview dates left.

I personally know a few people who didn't get into MD programs and interviewed at DO schools in March.