help with TMDSAS app review, unmatched

[curiouscoconut55375]

TLDR: Did not match to Texas MD and I’m hoping for more sets of eyes to glance over my application and look for spots where I can obviously improve before this next application starts.


3.95 total GPA, 3.90 science GPA
511 MCAT, just the one attempt

Late application, schools did not consider me complete until July 20th

0 leadership
50 hours shadowing
~200 hours community service

1.5 years of outpatient scribing at time of application

1.5 years of clinical drug trial volunteering at time of application - nothing productive like a pub or a poster it was a hands-on kinda thing where we did inclusion/exclusion on patient populations and then brought them into the office to administer the drug and collect data

If I had to guess? somewhat unimpressive/generic but definitely positive LORs.

Only got 2 IIs, at the 2 highest ranked schools in Texas. Matched to neither. Got zero love and zero correspondence whatsoever from every other MD in the state.

I feel my interviewing skills were not the problem I’m pretty charismatic, tend to do interviews well, and felt like I really gelled well with the people I met during them
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MY PLAN FOR THIS CYCLE: For the past year since applying I’ve been doing scribing in a level 1/2 Trauma ER along with continuing my prior clinical research involvement. I’m also planning on bumping up my MCAT score

Can you help diagnose what you feel like went wrong for me the first time around? Any big suggestions or glaring things I could improve on? I feel it may not have been as simple as “late application + lower MCAT”, so I’m very open to brutally honest criticism that can get me to where I need to be.

List of schools I plan on applying to: Texas MD, again.

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[Mr.Smile12]

Describe your community service. The details are important. Also, what do your prehealth advisors say? What is your backstory growing up in Texas?

You are circling around my question: why would I want to interview you? It sounds like your only answer is your GPA and MCAT only. From how you describe yourself in your post-TMDSAS sadness, you aren't "special" or outstanding. You say no leadership and generic letters, so I wonder what you did for your time in college, or even if you are still in college. You may be open to brutally honest criticism, but more details help us make more specific suggestions for improvement.