MD School List Help + Advice (Nontrad, NC, 3.96, 510)

[Pyroraptor]

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Hello everyone! I am trying to finalize my school list. The amount of information makes it a bit overwhelming, so I figured while I continue to go through the information myself I could also look into other people’s thoughts. Looking for insight to what schools to add/drop, especially those that are OOT friendly.

GPA/sGPA: 3.96/3.96
MCAT: 510 (127/127/127/129), first attempt
NC resident
Non Trad applicant, bilingual Spanish speaker, first gen immigration
R1 undergrad institution.

Paid Clinical (~2500 so far): MA, interpreting, health coaching
Volunteering (clinical?, ~ 95 hours) : Transporting and directing patients at a hospital
Research (~1200): one poster presentation and one talk in my undergrad institution
Shadowing (~130 at the time I submitted primary): MD, DO and PA. Multiple specialties including but not limited to: general surgery, primary care, pediatrics, endocrinology
Paid Not-clinical (~5400): pharma industry

Only applying through AMCAS. Current school list:

1. ECU Brody
2. Duke
3. Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University
4. Johns Hopkins
5. Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
6. Rush
7. University of Colorado
8. University of Maryland
9. UNC Chapel Hill
10. University of Virginia School of Medicine
11. VCU
12. Wake Forest

Others I was considering but have not applied to:

• Oregon Health & Science
• Temple University
• NYMC
• Albert Einstein
• University of Pittsburgh

Thank you for the help/advice!

 

[Faha]

Are you Hispanic? Johns Hopkins, Duke, U Virginia are completely unrealistic with a MCAT of 510 and Maryland and Colorado admit very few non residents with a MCAT of 510. You are lacking the non clinical volunteering activities that Rush is looking for.

 

[Pyroraptor]

Are you Hispanic? Johns Hopkins, Duke, U Virginia are completely unrealistic with a MCAT of 510 and Maryland and Colorado admit very few non residents with a MCAT of 510. You are lacking the non clinical volunteering activities that Rush is looking for.

Yes I'm Hispanic! I was aware of Hopkins but wanted to try anyway. I have received IIs from Duke, do they typically just send to just all applicants? Thank you for the advice on the others!

 

[Faha]

When is your interview at Duke? You could add these schools to your application this week:
NOVA MD
Belmont
Alice Walton
Roseman
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Hackensack
Einstein
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Arizona (Tucson and Phoenix)

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Mission fit is important, and while we don't have your application, Duke might find your past employment with pharma interesting (and a growing Latinx population in NC). When you say II's, you mean, you have an interview scheduled, right? (they don't send invitations to interview to everyone unless their process has changed significantly).

Have you ever connected with LMSA or SNMA chapters before applying? Important question is how you made the pivot to medical school: highlight what you have done the last year or so (say just prior to the start of your MCAT prep).