Low stat app with no IS Status

[wavelength88]

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Hi everyone,

I am looking for some advice on where to apply or how to improve my current application. I am open to applying to DO and MD schools in hope that I will only apply this once.

I am a Can/USA dual citizen living in the Canada so I have no IS status and will not qualify for FAP. However, I have heard I can designate myself as disadvantaged on the primary?

1st Gen, Low income, middle eastern, LGBT

cGPA: 3.65 (huge upward trend 2.7, 3.8, 3.8, 3.75, 4.0)

sGPA: 3.55

MCAT: 506 (126, 124, 127, 129)

Clinical
200hr Hospital volunteer
200hr MA
(taking gap year and hoping to find clinical job)


Volunteering
500hrs at risk youth
100 hrs sports coach
80 hrs tutoring
50 hours LGBT organization
50 hrs indigenous organization

Research
800 hrs RA in clinical research
1000 hrs HIV research (pub underway)

shadowing

0 hours (trying to find some but it’s difficult in Canada)

DO school list
Rowan
MSUCOM
PCOM
PNWU
WesternU
ACOM

MD school list
Quinnipiac
SUNY down state
Medical College wisconsin
NOVA
Albany

 

[wysdoc]

When will you know your MCAT score? Make sure all those school not only say they accept applications from Canadians, but have also actually enrolled international students. Schools near the Canadian border more commonly do.

 

[wavelength88]

Hi everyone,

I am looking for some advice on where to apply or how to improve my current application. I am open to applying to DO and MD schools in hope that I will only apply this once.

I am a Can/USA dual citizen living in the Canada so I have no IS status and will not qualify for FAP. However, I have heard I can designate myself as disadvantaged on the primary?

1st Gen, Low income, middle eastern, LGBT

cGPA: 3.65 (huge upward trend 2.7, 3.8, 3.8, 3.75, 4.0)

sGPA: 3.55

Clinical
200hr Hospital volunteer
200hr MA
(taking gap year and hoping to find clinical job)


Volunteering
500hrs at risk youth
100 hrs sports coach
80 hrs tutoring
50 hours LGBT organization
50 hrs indigenous organization

Research
800 hrs RA in clinical research
1000 hrs HIV research (pub underway)

shadowing

0 hours (trying to find some but it’s difficult in Canada)

DO school list
Rowan
MSUCOM
PCOM
PNWU
WesternU
ACOM

MD school list
Quinnipiac
SUNY down state
Medical College wisconsin
NOVA
Albany

Sorry forgot to add MCAT: 506 (126, 124, 127, 129)

 

[wavelength88]

When will you know your MCAT score? Make sure all those school not only say they accept applications from Canadians, but have also actually enrolled international students. Schools near the Canadian border more commonly do.

But wouldn’t I be considered a US citizen? I am can/usa dual citizen

 

[wysdoc]

But wouldn’t I be considered a US citizen? I am can/usa dual citizen

You’re right! Are you applying this year or next year?

 

[wavelength88]

You’re right! Are you applying this year or next year?

June 2026!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

You don't qualify for FAP? What response have you gotten?

Fee Assistance Program for Canadian Examinees

The AAMC and the AFMC offer a Fee Assistance Program for examinees in financial need to help them prepare for and register for the MCAT® exam.

students-residents.aamc.org

 

[wavelength88]

You don't qualify for FAP? What response have you gotten?

Fee Assistance Program for Canadian Examinees

The AAMC and the AFMC offer a Fee Assistance Program for examinees in financial need to help them prepare for and register for the MCAT® exam.

students-residents.aamc.org

Sorry, I should mention that I do qualify for aamc canadian FAP and used it for my mcat. However, since it’s canadian and I do not have an american address it cannot be used for applications.

 

[Faha]

I suggest these MD schools with your stats:
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
Eastern Virginia
Methodist
NOVA MD
Belmont
Alice Walton
Roseman
TCU
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Ponce (St. Louis)
For DO schools I suggest these:
UNECOM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
LECOM
PCOM
CUSOM
MU-COM
CCOM
DMU-COM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
AZCOM
TUNCOM
WVSOM
WESTERN