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Here is what I have on AMCAS currently:
I know that some of these are laughable, so please give me some help! Thanks!
- Boston U
- Columbia
- Creighton
- Drexel
- Duke
- Dartmouth
- USC
- Mayo
- Northwestern
- OHSU
- Rosalind Franklin
- Temple
- U of NM
- Tufts
- U of CO
- U of HI
- U of WA
- Vanderbilt
- Brown
- Cornell
- Yale
One more thing, I was reading about how many medical schools I should apply to. I read that anything over 20 and it implies that you don't really know what you're doing or haven't put that much thought into it. But I wasn't sure who would think that. Do medical schools know/take into consideration how many schools an applicant applied to when evaluating them? That hardly seems fair. Thanks!
Okay, great. Thanks for the advice.
Also, when do medical schools begin to take your letters of recommendation into account? After you submit your secondary? I'm asking because I think that I'll have all my recommendations in to the committee by the end of this month, and I don't want to be too far behind. Thanks.
Due to residency criteria, I am both a CO and HI resident for admissions purposes.
I graduated in May 2011 with a degree in Biochemistry. My cGPA is 3.63 and my BCPM GPA is 3.67.
I identify as Puerto Rican and Native Hawaiian and have indicated disadvantaged status and am a FAP-recipient.
I have 200 hours of ED volunteering and 40 hours of shadowing a primary care physician. I know that I should shadow a breadth of specialties, but I keep getting a lot of push-back due to HIPAA, etc. I aspire to become a primary care provider.
My April MCAT score was 10P/11V/10B, 31Q. I know that's on the low-end, so you don't have to remind me.
I have been working full-time as a research analyst at a health care policy non-profit and have contributed to their publications and given presentations (even one at CU-Denver Medical School).My experience has helped me understand what the future of health care delivery may look like due to state and federal health reform. My research has also focused on health disparities.
I was heavily involved in community service in college. I have about 500 nonclinical volunteer hours over a two-year tenure as president of my school's diversity and multi-cultural student group.We won my university's top award for our work.
During college, I conducted research over the course of two years in my department, though I don't have any publications. I am told my PI wrote a stellar recommendation on my behalf.
URM, 3.6+, 31. Shadowing, volunteering, clinical exposure, research. Looks good.
Your school list might look something like this:
-All CO schools
-3-4 bottom-tier MD schools
-3-4 middle-tier MD schools
-2-3 top-tier MD schools (your "reach" schools).
-maybe 2-3 established DO schools (KCUMB, KCOM, DMU)
For teh most part, don't bother applying OOS. You should be a lock at your state school(s).
Thanks, Boshtrich. I've heard that CU-Denver has become more OOS-friendly, which I hardly think is fair, since that's our only in-state option. Also, if I "only" have 200 hours of ED volunteering and 40 hours of shadowing, is that not enough? What's funny about this is that I spoke to Dimple Patel, and she said that this was a myth, and there is no official minimum requirement for volunteer hours. Also, am I a nontraditional student if I graduated a year ago? I've had a full-time job for a year and hope that experience helps me out. Haha.
In other news, what are your plans since you are wait-listed? Have you already accepted an offer, or do you plan to reapply? Did you apply during college, or did you take some time off beforehand?
Take care.
The bolded statement is not true and would be a very bad idea. As you pointed, the only state school in Colorado is CU-Denver, and it is getting more and more competitive and OOS friendly every year. I am also a CO resident and am currently sitting on the waitlist with a 3.8/33, and there are plenty of other equally qualified CO applicants who have also been waitlisted or rejected, so being IS doesn't make you a lock for CU-Denver. CU seems to put a large emphasis on clinical experience, and is very non-trad/career-changer friendly. Based on this, I would highly recommend applying to several OOS schools (probably in the 15-20 school range). I'm sure you would be very happy at CU-Denver as it is a very good school with an excellent primary care program. However, it would be better to apply to more schools than you needed and end up with multiple acceptances than to not apply to enough schools and have to go through this all again next year. If you apply broadly you will get in somewhere, I just wouldn't completely bank on CU.
Maybe. OP, take a gander at the OOS acceptance rates at state schools and decide if it's worth applying.
Also, you're clearly not Hispanic, so your advice must be taken with a grain of salt. There just aren't that many Hispanics with an application like the OP's. I think he'll have a very successful cycle, assuming he's not obese, ugly, or awkward.
Ahhh! Why did that person get waitlisted?
So you can accept an offer for a medical school, but ditch if a better school accepts you off the waitlist? Do you forfeit your deposit in that case?