I'm sorry to pick on you, Henry, but I've seen your comments on a few school-specific threads and from what I'm gathering, you are pretty late to the game in applying DO, and you aren't even sure why you're doing so. As
@Gandyy and a few others have mentioned, DO is getting more competitive. Numbers are a huge component for med school admissions, but so are both timing and interest. The 3.7/31 MD and 3.4/27 DO thing may be averages, but
I don't believe you can apply to either after October and still expect success even with a 4.0/40.
Gone are the days that you can start adding schools later in the game. It's too competitive, and there are tons of amazing applicants who have compelling reasons to attend that local state school, or that specific DO program. Maybe this is colored by my own personal perspective, but the only "safety" schools these days are those that just opened and have to prove to competitive applicants that they WILL have a job when they graduate. There are too many students like me, who don't have the luxury of being excited about just getting into med school; we don't have a safety net and need to know that we're going to be employed as soon as we earn that MD/DO. At my most recent DO school interview, one of the students leading the tour graduated with honors from an Ivy League undergraduate program. Click on any of your state school threads and find that the 3.7/520+ (37+) applicant was waitlisted last week.
Call me naive, but these days, you have to prove that you are not only academically capable of succeeding on boards and graduating, but that you truly want to treat patients, and are a great fit for that program. Schools want to hear why you think you belong there. I'm back on SDN years after I first pursued medicine, and this is not a scientific study, but it seemed like your average 3.7/33 applicant had lots of options, whereas these days the options are more limited and it's all about fit. Correct me if I'm misguided.