MD & DO MD, and DO applicant - cGPA 3.51 and sGPA 3.70; 503 (125, 125, 126, 127)

[Anon013]

May I ask what programs that I can reasonably apply to with these metrics? I know my MCAT is abysmal.

1. cGPA 3.51 and sGPA 3.70 as calculated by AMCAS
2. Attempt 1: 503 (125, 125, 126, 127); Attempt 2 501 (123,125,127,126)
3. Michigan
4. White
5. Biochemistry and Neuroscience
6. clinical hours
   1. Clinical Work: EMT 250 hrs; Lab tech: 4000 hrs;
   2. Clinical Volunteer: American Red Cross FAST team 200 hrs
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. Volunteer research tech in college for 3 years 3000 hours
      1. 5 posters
   2. research work at current work (see Lab tech/ Surgical tech)
      1. 8 posters, 2 podium presentations at a national conference, 2 publications and 1 manuscript in process, part of 2 funded NIH grants
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. 20 hrs shadowing a general surgeon in a densely populated middle class area
   2. 40 hrs shadowing a ER doctors in a rural area
   3. 36 hrs shadowing a general thoracic surgeon in a rural area
   4. 42 hrs shadowing an internist in a city
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. 200 hrs Chemistry association local outreach to rural students
   2. 40 hrs mentor for local rural high school students interested in applying to college
   3. 100 hrs maintaining Boy and Girl scout camps
   4. 50 hrs companionship at a nursing home
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. Sophomore year- Treasurer of residence college
    2. Sophomore to senior year- Swim team captain college
    3. Sophomore and junior year- Rugby
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Junior year college- College Academic Research Stipend
    2. Senior year- award for volunteer work and student of the year for residence college
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important
    1. As a lab tech I am approved to do recovery surgical work on animals by veterinarians; surgerized and instrumented large and small animals for ECMO, CPB, and other forms of medical inserts. I really underplayed this as I didn't want to sound like I was making the work to be bigger then it really is with the limited space I had for activities.

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[GoHorseGo]

Bump.

Also, we have similar stats (kinda) but Goro & Faha both provided me some great lists if you wanna check em out!

 

[Faha]

For MD schools your only realistic choices are Central Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State.
Apply broadly to DO schools and I suggest these:
MSUCOM
MU-COM
LECOM (all schools)
VCOM (all 3 schools)
UIWSOM
CUSOM
DMU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
KCU-COM
ARCOM