Hello,
To start with, here are my basics:
I actually applied last year, and sent in primaries to about 10 schools, but only completed secondaries for 4 schools, of which I got interviews at 2. Currently still on the wait-list for 1. Gearing up for reapplying since I cannot bank on that wait-list acceptance. In all honesty, between time and money, I was simply not ready to apply and forced it through, which I shouldn't have.(Also didn't realize applying to med school was so expensive!). So I am re-applying this cycle, but the difference is that I have both time and money this summer to devote 100% of my attention to this. In terms of continuing efforts, I have not had much time to do other volunteering other than the EMT every week due to job obligations. Also, will it be held against me if I do not obtain a letter from my supervisor?(I don't know if I want the company to know that I plan on applying to med school). Most of my supplemental information is complete since it carried over from last year(on both application services) and my personal statement is near complete, just need to have some people look over it. The only thing left is the school selection. I have a list of DO and MD schools, with a heavy emphasis on DO due to GPA/MCAT. I was wondering if I could have some people look over it, and see if there are any schools that I should eliminate or add. Thank you very much for your time!
@Goro Would you maybe be able to chime in here? Thanks so much!
AT kirksville
AT Mesa
Alabama COM
AZCOM - MWU
Arkansas COM
California health sciences
Campbell Uni COM
CCOM MWU
DMU
Edward Via - all 3
Idaho COM
KCUCOM - II last year
LECOM/LECOM-FL
Marian University
NYITCOM - currently on WL
PCOM/GA/SGA
Pacific northwest
Rocky Vista
Rowan
UNECOM
West VA
Pikeville COM
Western Uni - CA/OR
Quinnipiac
NYMC
AMC
Drexel
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
To start with, here are my basics:
- Year in school: graduated 2018 - working at a pharma company now full-time
- Country/state of residence: NY
- Cumulative GPA: 3.46
- Science GPA: 3.4
- AO GPA: 3.61
- MCAT Scores: 506(126,129,125,126)
- Research – include any abstracts/posters/publications and how you were credited (eg. First author, senior author, etc): Started research freshman summer. Have continually researched until the end of college. Probably around 1000 hours.
- Volunteering (clinical) – include hours/sites: 280 hours at hospital, currently volunteering as EMT on the side every week - about 50 hours so far
- Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties: 100 hours total, 24 hours pediatric infectious diseases, 32 hours EM, 24 hours neurosurgeon, letter of rec from pediatric physician who is also a DO.
- Non-clinical volunteering: 70 hours working at church - mostly helped homeless and underserved population, 30 hours as member of athlete leadership council during college.
- Extracurricular activities: NCAA D3 tennis athlete
- Leadership experience: senior captain of tennis team during senior year, was a TA/study leader for 4 classes in total throughout college.
- Employment history: Mostly spent summers rotating around in research labs funded by grants, now working in pharma industry full-time
- Immediate family members in medicine? (y/n): No
- Specialty of interest: Interested in pediatric immunology/infectious diseases
- Interest in rural health (y/n): yep
I actually applied last year, and sent in primaries to about 10 schools, but only completed secondaries for 4 schools, of which I got interviews at 2. Currently still on the wait-list for 1. Gearing up for reapplying since I cannot bank on that wait-list acceptance. In all honesty, between time and money, I was simply not ready to apply and forced it through, which I shouldn't have.(Also didn't realize applying to med school was so expensive!). So I am re-applying this cycle, but the difference is that I have both time and money this summer to devote 100% of my attention to this. In terms of continuing efforts, I have not had much time to do other volunteering other than the EMT every week due to job obligations. Also, will it be held against me if I do not obtain a letter from my supervisor?(I don't know if I want the company to know that I plan on applying to med school). Most of my supplemental information is complete since it carried over from last year(on both application services) and my personal statement is near complete, just need to have some people look over it. The only thing left is the school selection. I have a list of DO and MD schools, with a heavy emphasis on DO due to GPA/MCAT. I was wondering if I could have some people look over it, and see if there are any schools that I should eliminate or add. Thank you very much for your time!
@Goro Would you maybe be able to chime in here? Thanks so much!
AT kirksville
AT Mesa
Alabama COM
AZCOM - MWU
Arkansas COM
California health sciences
Campbell Uni COM
CCOM MWU
DMU
Edward Via - all 3
Idaho COM
KCUCOM - II last year
LECOM/LECOM-FL
Marian University
NYITCOM - currently on WL
PCOM/GA/SGA
Pacific northwest
Rocky Vista
Rowan
UNECOM
West VA
Pikeville COM
Western Uni - CA/OR
Quinnipiac
NYMC
AMC
Drexel
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
