MD & DO Help with a school list, focusing on DO

[abraxes]

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Hi All,

Getting ready to apply this cycle and was looking for some help with making a school list. I think I'm going to be primarily focusing on DO schools.

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS

GPA TOTALS: cGPA: ~3.46 projected, sGPA ~3.33

2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown

Tested 1/25/18 --> 505 (125/128/127/125)

3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)

Connecticut

4. Ethnicity and/or race

White Male

5. Undergraduate institution or category

Small, Private Institution

6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)

2,500 Hours EMT - volunteer
1,500 Hours EMT - volunteer
~ 750 Paid Hours EMT

7. Research experience and productivity

Goose Egg

8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented

15 Hours --> Emergency Medicine

9. Non-clinical volunteering

10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)

decent amount raised for charity (>20k)
Multiple leadership positions

11. Relevant honors or awards

multiple awards at EMS service / UG clubs / services

Schools List

MD

• Quinnipiac
• Albany Medical
• UCONN
• Rosalind
• Tufts - Maine track
• MC Wisconsin
• Rush
• Tulane
• Drexel
• EVMS
• V. Tech
• Oakland Beaumont
• NYMC

DO

• UNECOM
• PCOM- PA / GA
• RVUCOM - CO / UT
• LECOM- Erie / Brad
• WVSOM
• ATSU-KCOM
• KCUCOM
• BCOM
• ACOM
  
• AZCOM
• ATSU-SOMA
• CCOM
• OSUCOM
• DMUCOM
• OUHCOM
• Western OR

I don't have a DO LOR yet, I'm working on getting one / shadowing a DO.

Any input on the school list would be great 🙂

 

[Faha]

You are competitive for all DO schools. You can delete V. Tech since they accept very few non residents with your stats. You could add these MD schools:
Vermont
Creighton
NOVA MD
Seton Hall
California University

 

[abraxes]

You are competitive for all DO schools. You can delete V. Tech since they accept very few non residents with your stats. You could add these MD schools:
Vermont
Creighton
NOVA MD
Seton Hall
California University

I'm starting to focus on narrowing my DO list. Any recommendations on what would be a "safe(-ish)" number / mix of DO schools to apply to that isn't obnoxiously large?

 

[Faha]

From your current list of DO schools you could remove OUHCOM since they have a strong instate preference. Otherwise your DO list is fine. 10 schools from that list should be adequate but include UNECOM.