MD Reapplicant 3.7 GPA MCAT 36 ORM

[deleted702880]

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CA resident, East Asian, 3.7 GPA for both and 36 MCAT (97th percentile). Reapplying because I was generally unprepared/uninformed last cycle and applied to only CA schools.

I have one publication (11th author 🙁 in Nature Immunology), research with a immunology and a psychology lab, study abroad+volunteering, "voluntourism", leadership of a photo media group, various tutoring and teaching appointments, shadowing, multiple clinical and hospital volunteering. Compared to the stuff I see on SDN normally, my ECs are pretty weak but I did land 2 II last cycle for what it's worth, one MMI and one traditional interview. Working on my interview anxiety at the moment. Here are the schools I'm applying to this cycle (I have already submitted a couple of secondaries but can always add more):

• Albany
• Einstein
• Drexel
• Dartmouth
• George Washington
• Hofstra
• USC Keck (reapp)
• Loyola
• Northwestern Feinberg
• Rosalind Franklin
• Saint Louis University
• Jefferson
• Stanford (futile, just doing it to satisfy the folks)
• University of Vermont
• Tufts
• Tulane
• every UC including alma mater
  
• Rochester
• USF Morsani
• Wake Forest

Thanks!

 

[md-2020]

Did you apply early enough last year? I find it amazing you didn't get into any UC's+Keck with a 3.7/36. How many total apps did you send?

Your list this time looks solid, remove USF and U Vm (IS biases/CA Applicant) and add SUNYs (love CA applicants), NYMC, TCMC, G'town (since you're applying to GW....), Rush etc. as safeties. To be 100% honest Dartmouth is also very non-trad (~85%) so maybe cut that too.

But seriously, with those numbers/ECs I'm very curious how all CA schools turned you down. Could you have had faulty interviews?

 

[DRBUTTFARTZ]

Woah nice MCAT!

Full disclosure, I'm only really familiar with GW and St. Louis, but I know the strong MCAT gives you a decent shot for both.

Although I only had a 3.65 GPA and 28 MCAT, I can definitely offer some interview advice (I'm a naturally loud, big, and silly human being as it's been explained to me).

Smile smile smile! And not because you're trying to force yourself to appear happy so they'll like you but you must first realize that you ARE happy- you're applying to medical school in the greatest country in the world and these complete strangers you've never met before are very excited to meet you! Also, always ALWAYS keep in mind that an interview means you've got a foot in the door (literally, as you walk through their first door). It's as though they are just trying to confirm the fact that they like you, not the wrongful assumption that it's cut-throat time to beg them to like you.

To say it best, get in the mindset that you're just going with the flow and excited to be seeing a new place and meeting new people- as if you don't even really care what happens.

 

[deleted702880]

Did you apply early enough last year? I find it amazing you didn't get into any UC's+Keck with a 3.7/36. How many total apps did you send?

Your list this time looks solid, remove USF and U Vm (IS biases/CA Applicant) and add SUNYs (love CA applicants), NYMC, TCMC, G'town (since you're applying to GW....), Rush etc. as safeties. To be 100% honest Dartmouth is also very non-trad (~85%) so maybe cut that too.

But seriously, with those numbers/ECs I'm very curious how all CA schools turned you down. Could you have had faulty interviews?

Thanks for the advice! I'm applying to USF because I have a cousin there but I'll likely add on the rest. Already submitted Dartmouth as well. I got the Keck and Davis interviews but screwed them up because I didn't prepare with an actual person and got super anxious at the actual interviews. I applied to every single CA school and believe that I only had 2 interviews because my writing from last year was pretty bad (mix of being very rushed and having no one looking over it).

Woah nice MCAT!

Full disclosure, I'm only really familiar with GW and St. Louis, but I know the strong MCAT gives you a decent shot for both.

Although I only had a 3.65 GPA and 28 MCAT, I can definitely offer some interview advice (I'm a naturally loud, big, and silly human being as it's been explained to me).

Smile smile smile! And not because you're trying to force yourself to appear happy so they'll like you but you must first realize that you ARE happy- you're applying to medical school in the greatest country in the world and these complete strangers you've never met before are very excited to meet you! Also, always ALWAYS keep in mind that an interview means you've got a foot in the door (literally, as you walk through their first door). It's as though they are just trying to confirm the fact that they like you, not the wrongful assumption that it's cut-throat time to beg them to like you.

To say it best, get in the mindset that you're just going with the flow and excited to be seeing a new place and meeting new people- as if you don't even really care what happens.

Thanks! This is quite helpful because the only thing I think about when I'm in the interviews is how every action I make will be judged and that just makes me a nervous wreck haha. I keep thinking about how badly I want to be a student that I don't really think about how happy I am to be there. Self-defeating prophecies or something similar I suppose.

 

[md-2020]

Thanks for the advice! I'm applying to USF because I have a cousin there but I'll likely add on the rest. Already submitted Dartmouth as well. I got the Keck and Davis interviews but screwed them up because I didn't prepare with an actual person and got super anxious at the actual interviews. I applied to every single CA school and believe that I only had 2 interviews because my writing from last year was pretty bad (mix of being very rushed and having no one looking over it).


Thanks! This is quite helpful because the only thing I think about when I'm in the interviews is how every action I make will be judged and that just makes me a nervous wreck haha. I keep thinking about how badly I want to be a student that I don't really think about how happy I am to be there. Self-defeating prophecies or something similar I suppose.

Good luck. Also, is you're gonna apply to Drexel and Jefferson then apply to Temple as well. Temple>Drexel, IMO.

 

[DRBUTTFARTZ]

Exactly! Also a redbull or two doesn't hurt to pep you up before haha

 

[GrapesofRath]

Work on the interview technique and whatever else caused you to not take the process seriously last time. If you do I'd look into

Einstein
VCU
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
Tulane
Saint Louis
Creighton
Hofstra
Rochester
USC
UC Davis
U of Arizona(both)
Miami
Oakland
Quinnipac
Western Michigan
Pitt or Northwestern
Case Western
Medical College Wisconsin
Emory
Vanderbilt
Duke
Mt Sinai

 

[Doug Underhill]

Don't forget about Mayo.

 

[Goro]

Good list. Delete UCR if you're not from the Inland Empire. Consider the schools on Grapo's list as well. And U Miami too.

• Albany
• Einstein
• Drexel
• Dartmouth
• George Washington
• Hofstra
• USC Keck (reapp)
• Loyola
• Northwestern Feinberg
• Rosalind Franklin
• Saint Louis University
• Jefferson
• Stanford (futile, just doing it to satisfy the folks)
• University of Vermont
• Tufts
• Tulane
• every UC including alma mater
  
• Rochester
• USF Morsani
• Wake Forest

 

[Banco]

Your activities are good. Your main mistake was limiting yourself to cali schools. I think it would be worth it for you to add some top tiers that aren't in cali: Pitt, Case, Vandy, NYU, Sinai, Cornell, Emory. Also maybe the arizona schools? Otherwise your list is fine.