Help Creating School List - MD hopeful nurse

[akw42]

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Hi everyone,

So this post actually isn't for me but for a good friend of mine who doesn't have an sdn account. She submitted her amcas several weeks ago but is still waiting to be verified and is having a bit of trouble compiling a list of schools to apply to. Her bio:

Asian female 28 y.o. from Illinois
Mcat: 30 (8, 12, 10)
Undergrad GPA: 3.5 (from 2007)
Has worked as a RN for the past 5 years in a large academic hospital
Started her own health related business
Volunteers at local community health clinic
She graduated undergrad not sure on medicine but is 100% convinced now

She is mostly okay with any geographic location for med school. I think the most important thing for her is to apply broadly and to a healthy amount of schools that won't get 382928937 applicants to really boost her chances. I am doing my best to put together a list with her but we are by no means experts on all of the schools out there. Are there schools that look favorably on nurses (I know a lot of people say that a lot of med schools actually frown upon applicants who are nurses)? Any help is appreciated!

 

[Slack3r]

Wrong forum. Should post in pre-allo.

Also thus: https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/requirements/msar/

 

[akw42]

Gotcha, thanks and sorry about that

 

[Kal EI]

Hi everyone,

So this post actually isn't for me but for a good friend of mine who doesn't have an sdn account. She submitted her amcas several weeks ago but is still waiting to be verified and is having a bit of trouble compiling a list of schools to apply to. Her bio:

Asian female 28 y.o. from Illinois
Mcat: 30 (8, 12, 10)
Undergrad GPA: 3.5 (from 2007)
Has worked as a RN for the past 5 years in a large academic hospital
Started her own health related business
Volunteers at local community health clinic
She graduated undergrad not sure on medicine but is 100% convinced now

She is mostly okay with any geographic location for med school. I think the most important thing for her is to apply broadly and to a healthy amount of schools that won't get 382928937 applicants to really boost her chances. I am doing my best to put together a list with her but we are by no means experts on all of the schools out there. Are there schools that look favorably on nurses (I know a lot of people say that a lot of med schools actually frown upon applicants who are nurses)? Any help is appreciated!

Just go into a lucrative unprotected (open to midlevel advancement) field. I don't know many physicians that would tell a nurse to go through medical school.

 

[Smurfette]

Moving to preallo where this is more appropriate

 

[whatbout2morrow]

This thread might get more responses over in the What Are My Chances forum.

I have heard that DO schools tend to show a lot of love to nurses, but I think MD schools tend to treat nurses just like other applicants.

A few schools I'd consider applying to:

University of Illinois
Southern Illinois University
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Loyola
Medical College of Wisconsin
Jefferson
NYMC
Commonwealth
Drexel
Temple
George Washington
Georgetown