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baratheonfire said:
PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE THIS MESSAGE

Just realized that my GPA isn't going to go up this year. In fact, it might tank. I can't take the risk of another cycle, so I've officially decided to apply DO this cycle. I'm gonna shadow a DO next week.

So I was wondering if you guys could help me with my school list. I'd like to apply to ~10 schools, ideally close to home but I won't compromise that over the quality of the school. I used to want to be an opthalmologist but I realize how unlikely that is now, so I'd be fine doing EM or something.

Already applied to 31 MD schools (mid-low tier mainly), complete between Aug. 23 and Sept 10. No II's, 1 rejection, 2.5 holds

Application overview
Stats that everyone knows by now: 3.47 cgpa (3.46 sgpa), 520 (130,130,130,130) MCAT.
ORM NY resident. I attend a high ranked engineering school on the east coast.

EC's-
Soup kitchen volunteer- 2000+ hrs, most important activity

Health fair volunteer- 50 hrs

Hospital Volunteer- 400+ hrs, pretty important

Shadowing- 150 hrs in surgical and primary care

Community garden Volunteer- Like 100 hrs

Founder and president of campus chapter of international service related NGO- like 500 hrs

Research- like 400 hrs in 2 different labs, no pubs and 1 presentation at my undergrad that I didn't list as a separate thing. Each lab went on separately

TA for cell bio- Like 70 hrs

Scribing- like 600 hrs easily so far

MCAT tutor- like 50 hrs to date i guess

Like 2 awards for leadership/service

Red flags- Basically skipped freshman year with AP credit, graduating college in 3 years
3 C+'s on transcript

Schools I'm currently considering
NYCOM, PCOM, Rowan, CCOM
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Those are nice numbers man. Have your choosing of which DO schools you want to attend. Don't forget the international DO schools, I hear they are top-notch.
 
That's quite the solid app you got.

NYITCOM
PCOM
Rowan
CCOM
UNECOM
NOVA
KCUMB
LECOM-cuz u want to stay closer to east coast
OSUCOM (same w/ below)
TexasCOM (it's far, but quality)
OU-HCOM(read 5 year contract in ohio)
MSUCOM(decently close i guess, but 88k OOS $)

Maybe VCOM-CC if you want to throw in another east coaster.

If distance doesnt matter that much add AZCOM, DMU, RVU-CO

I put a lot of in state bias schools due to the fact theyre great/closer than other schools on there but you have the stats to overcome it. You probably wont need to apply to all the schools i suggested, so pick and choose as you wish.


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Mr. D.O.five said:
Those are nice numbers man. Have your choosing of which DO schools you want to attend. Don't forget the international DO schools, I hear they are top-notch.
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Hey could you unquote my post? Thanks
 
baratheonfire said:
PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE THIS MESSAGE

Just realized that my GPA isn't going to go up this year. In fact, it might tank. I can't take the risk of another cycle, so I've officially decided to apply DO this cycle. I'm gonna shadow a DO next week.

So I was wondering if you guys could help me with my school list. I'd like to apply to ~10 schools, ideally close to home but I won't compromise that over the quality of the school. I used to want to be an opthalmologist but I realize how unlikely that is now, so I'd be fine doing EM or something.

Already applied to 31 MD schools (mid-low tier mainly), complete between Aug. 23 and Sept 10. No II's, 1 rejection, 2.5 holds

Application overview
Stats that everyone knows by now: 3.47 cgpa (3.46 sgpa), 520 (130,130,130,130) MCAT.
ORM NY resident. I attend a high ranked engineering school on the east coast.

EC's-
Soup kitchen volunteer- 2000+ hrs, most important activity

Health fair volunteer- 50 hrs

Hospital Volunteer- 400+ hrs, pretty important

Shadowing- 150 hrs in surgical and primary care

Community garden Volunteer- Like 100 hrs

Founder and president of campus chapter of international service related NGO- like 500 hrs

Research- like 400 hrs in 2 different labs, no pubs and 1 presentation at my undergrad that I didn't list as a separate thing. Each lab went on separately

TA for cell bio- Like 70 hrs

Scribing- like 600 hrs easily so far

MCAT tutor- like 50 hrs to date i guess

Like 2 awards for leadership/service

Red flags- Basically skipped freshman year with AP credit, graduating college in 3 years
3 C+'s on transcript

Schools I'm currently considering
NYCOM, PCOM, Rowan, CCOM
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Why do you care about quotes?
 
baratheonfire said:
Hey could you unquote my post? Thanks
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I'm curious as to what your concern for this is?

Anyway, you should honestly instead just weed out the schools you shouldn't/wouldn't go to:
  • Schools that have a heavy in-state bias
  • Schools that are newer/unestablished
  • Schools in places you just don't want to live
 
Just a week ago I told you to relax and not worry about applying DO yet. And yet here you are... and stating your stats again I might add. They really need to take away your posting privileges until December, it would be for your good.
 
AnatomyGrey12 said:
Just a week ago I told you to relax and not worry about applying DO yet. And yet here you are... and stating your stats again I might add. They really need to take away your posting privileges until December, it would be for your good.
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Dude my GPA might tank in December, I have to push the eject button before that
 
baratheonfire said:
Failed a midterm
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Okay, here's my advice. Apply to all the top DO schools and 5-7 normal/low tier ones.

If you seriously think your GPA is going to tank by December, then it's better to be a DO student next fall, than a reapplicant.

If you don't get accepted to MD/DO schools by the fall, then we may have bigger problems.


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ATPsynthase123 said:
Okay, here's my advice. Apply to all the top DO schools and 5-7 normal/low tier ones.

If you seriously think your GPA is going to tank by December, then it's better to be a DO student next fall, than a reapplicant.

If you don't get accepted to MD/DO schools by the fall, then we may have bigger problems.


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I'm going over my app with my committee before applying AACOMAS. Can you give me an example list? Trying to get a consensus here
 
lexswift said:
Why are you so against a gap year?
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I don't currently see any reason to take a gap year with my stats/EC's. And there's the fact that at the end of the year I may be in a worse position than this cycle.
 
baratheonfire said:
I'm going over my app with my committee before applying AACOMAS. Can you give me an example list? Trying to get a consensus here
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High tier:

ATSU KCOM and SOMA

PCOM

MSUCOM

Touro CA

Touro NV (I only include these because they give high MCAT/low GPA students a chance)

CCOM

DMU

KCU

MUCOM

UNECOM

High yield:

LMU-DCOM

KYCOM

VCOM (all 3)

CUSOM

WVSOM

if you can't get into at least one of these, I don't know what to tell you


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ATPsynthase123 said:
High tier:

ATSU KCOM and SOMA

PCOM

MSUCOM

Touro CA

Touro NV (I only include these because they give high MCAT/low GPA students a chance)

CCOM

DMU

KCU

MUCOM

UNECOM

High yield:

LMU-DCOM

KYCOM

VCOM (all 3)

CUSOM

WVSOM

if you can't get into at least one of these, I don't know what to tell you


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Yo where's NYCOM and Rowan on this
 
baratheonfire said:
Dude my GPA might tank in December, I have to push the eject button before that
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Alright we actually have a decent reason other than neuroticism 😉 No one will be able to give you a firm list because it isn't mostly opinion. I will share mine from my experiences from interviewing and the extensive research I have done for the last year or more. I am also a low GPA high MCAT applicant.

Top:

PCOM, the state schools- OSU, MSU, TCOM (I don't know much about Rowan but I assume that it belongs here)

These schools just flat out have more resources than the others.

The next (still great schools):

KCU, DMU, NOVA, KCOM, PCOM-GA, NYCOM, CCOM, RVU

A couple that are solid but just a little behind the others:

Western (both), SOMA, LECOMS, TUNCOM, a few newer schools like Marian, ACOM, WVSOM (this interview actually really surprised me and I loved the school), UNECOM, ACOM

Newer schools or rural schools that will get you where you want to go but don't have the same clinicals or resources as the others:

BCOM, RVU-UT, LMU-DCOM, KYCOM, PNW, others

Schools I would avoid- Touro CA and Touro NY, WCU, Liberty. For reasons why just PM me, I don't want to start a flame war
 
AnatomyGrey12 said:
Alright we actually have a decent reason other than neuroticism 😉 No one will be able to give you a firm list because it isn't mostly opinion. I will share mine from my experiences from interviewing and the extensive research I have done for the last year or more. I am also a low GPA high MCAT applicant.

Top:

PCOM, the state schools- OSU, MSU, TCOM (I don't know much about Rowan but I assume that it belongs here)

These schools just flat out have more resources than the others.

The next (still great schools):

KCU, DMU, NOVA, KCOM, PCOM-GA, NYCOM, CCOM, RVU

A couple that are solid but just a little behind the others:

Western (both), SOMA, LECOMS, TUNCOM, a few newer schools like Marian, ACOM, WVSOM (this interview actually really surprised me and I loved the school), UNECOM, ACOM

Newer schools or rural schools that will get you where you want to go but don't have the same clinicals or resources as the others:

BCOM, RVU-UT, LMU-DCOM, KYCOM, PNW, others

Schools I would avoid- Touro CA and Touro NY, WCU, Liberty. For reasons why just PM me, I don't want to start a flame war
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Don't the LECOMs have terrible rotation sites and make their students drive across the country?


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You've got a good app and a great MCAT, but you've really got to work on not being so pompous. You're not God's gift to medicine and it would benefit you to take that to heart. That being said: PCOM, Nova, DMU, RVU CO, KCU, Western U Pomona, NYITCOM, Touro CA, ATSU , LECOM Erie, DMU

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ATPsynthase123 said:
Don't the LECOMs have terrible rotation sites and make their students drive across the country?


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Lecom E/SH actually have better clinical ed than about half of DO schools. I would have attended if I thought I could survive their administration.


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