Low GPA/high MCAT combo URM, School list help

[cyanissus]

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1. cGPA: 3.2 and sGPA: 3.00 => should I apply after summer classes when they end in July?
2. MCAT score(s): 519
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): I prefer not to state, but I will apply to my state schools!
4. Ethnicity and/or race: African American
5. Undergraduate institution or category: Public University
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
   1. 100 hr clinical volunteer, 582 scribing, shadowing 13 hrs (had to cancel my shadowing that I had planned)
7. Research experience and productivity, 700ish (is this too many hours in parallel to my volunteering?), 1 poster
8. Non-clinical volunteering: 107hrs (just started crisis-text line volunteering)
9. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): teaching/tutoring underserved students: 400hrs

 

[Developer]

PM me. Your application and mine are very similar, except your MCAT is significantly higher. I’ll send you my school list that netted me 19 MD IIs.

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
Howard
Meharry
Morehouse
UCLA Drew
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Tufts
New York Medical College
Einstein
Seton Hall
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
George Washington
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
NOVA MD
Miami
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Western Michigan
Medical College Wisconsin
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Creighton
TCU-UNT
Tulane
Kaiser

 

[Mr.Smile12]

1. cGPA: 3.2 and sGPA: 3.00 => should I apply after summer classes when they end in July?
2. MCAT score(s): 519
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): I prefer not to state, but I will apply to my state schools!
4. Ethnicity and/or race: African American
5. Undergraduate institution or category: Public University
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
   1. 100 hr clinical volunteer, 582 scribing, shadowing 13 hrs (had to cancel my shadowing that I had planned)
7. Research experience and productivity, 700ish (is this too many hours in parallel to my volunteering?), 1 poster
8. Non-clinical volunteering: 107hrs (just started crisis-text line volunteering)
9. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): teaching/tutoring underserved students: 400hrs

What summer classes are you planning to take? If they are prerequisites, I would definitely hold off, even consider waiting until next cycle.

How much networking with schools have you done through AMSA or SNMA? Have you been involved in any academic enrichment programs?

 

[A Ryan Seacrest Type]

Apply to lower and mid tier schools of course. But definitely apply to top 20s as well. High mcat and URM is nothing to sneeze at.

 

[cyanissus]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
Howard
Meharry
Morehouse
UCLA Drew
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Tufts
New York Medical College
Einstein
Seton Hall
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
George Washington
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
NOVA MD
Miami
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Western Michigan
Medical College Wisconsin
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Creighton
TCU-UNT
Tulane
Kaiser

Should I add any DO schools?

 

[cyanissus]

What summer classes are you planning to take? If they are prerequisites, I would definitely hold off, even consider waiting until next cycle.

How much networking with schools have you done through AMSA or SNMA? Have you been involved in any academic enrichment programs?

I'm not taking any prereqs, but I'm taking science courses for my major. I haven't gotten involved in AMSA/SNMA.

 

[Faha]

As a URM African American with a MCAT of 519 (top 5% for all applicants) you do not need to apply to DO schools.