My past year as a Reapplicant

[giants25]

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When I applied in college (in top 15) I had so many holes in my application. GPA around 3.4, only some clinical experience, 1 clinical internship in India, lots of extracurriculars though, but I applied very late in the cycle (finished September-October) and did not present myself well in amcas or secondaries I think. I only received two interviews and one was a rejection and the other a WL and they were in February and the end of March. So I took the next year to work on my application and mature a little more.

This is what I have done in my year:
-graduate school of biological sciences affiliated with state medical school (gpa of almost 4.0 for 30 credits)
-retook the MCAT (34S to 38S)
-Volunteered 8 hrs/week at a Neurosurgical floor dealing with Stroke victims
-volunteered 2-3x a month from September-May at night after class at a clinic at the state medical school's hospital (2 hrs each time).
-Have 2 more undegrad letters of rec and 1 graduate letter of rec (from 4 to 7 total, will choose 5-6 of them to send)
-Spent ~1 month with Project HOPE/US Navy doing humanitarian missions in Central America
-new Personal Statement, updated all activities on AMCAS and will submit June 1st.
-this upcoming year during the application cycle I have a research position due to my Masters degree and will continue to volunteer on weekends


So I just wanted some input from you guys as to whether or not I would be a competitive applicant. I applied to 20 schools last year with only 2 interviews and need some help picking schools to apply/what schools I would be competitive for and what would be reasonable reach schools to try. I'm grateful for any input you can provide. Thanks!

 

[Avoidthetiger]

I think you are extremely competitive! Just make sure you don't apply to only the top 30 schools. Make sure you have a well rounded list of schools to apply to. Ex. If you are from the midwest, don't apply to the east coast (waste of time). If you are from Cali, I would recommend applying to New york and midwest schools in addition to Cali (Don't bother with Philly though).

EDIT: Sorry - I meant to say don't apply to only the top 30 schools (i wrote like instead of only, ugh)... since you did so well on the MCAT, you might be inclined to. I was basically trying to remind you to have some safeties due to your 3.4 GPA [and just some regions to apply for safeties]. Sorry if I sounded like a numskull there.

 

[CurrySpice]

I think you are extremely competative! Just make sure you don't apply to like the top 30 schools. Make sure you have a well rounded list of schools to apply to. Ex. If you are from the midwest, don't apply to the east coast (waste of time). If you are from Cali, I would recommend applying to New york and midwest schools in addition to Cali (Don't bother with Philly though).

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Ignore this...

You will have a much better chance this time, as you know. Nothing is guaranteed and just try your best. Good job buckling down to boost up your application!

 

[sylvanthus]

I think you are extremely competative! Just make sure you don't apply to like the top 30 schools. Make sure you have a well rounded list of schools to apply to. Ex. If you are from the midwest, don't apply to the east coast (waste of time). If you are from Cali, I would recommend applying to New york and midwest schools in addition to Cali (Don't bother with Philly though).

You'll be fine. Ignore the above though, I have no idea wtf this person is talking about, but it is ridiculous.

 

[malpractician]

you applied late and didn't make it, you have an otherwise stellar app dude. They aren't kidding about applying early.