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[Faha]

Schools such as Loyola. Creighton, Georgetown and Tulane are looking for applicants with many hundreds of hours of non clinical volunteering. you also applied to several schools that were unrealistic with MCAT scores of 504 and 509.
You could retake the MCAT but schools often average scores. If you reapply, I suggest these MD schools:
Illinois
Southern Illinois
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
TCU
Alice Walton
Belmont
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Penn State
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Roseman
Methodist (when it opens)
For DO schools I suggest these:
CCOM
DMU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
KCU-COM
MU-COM
AZCOM
TUNCOM
PCOM
CUSOM
WVSOM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I agree that you can roll the dice on a retake, but schools will often average MCAT scores for screening applications. With two MCAT scores on the books, you need to push +10 above your higher score (meaning 519). Most of us expect +3 as the best one can do as a reapplicant, especially once you hit the 510s (because of the way scaled scores and percentiles are related here); it's easier to gain 3 in the 500's, so good for you for +5.

What comes through with your description is your interest in serving others through your artistic interest/photography. How should this insight inform us about your vision as a future physician? Why should your classmates look up to you? Do you have an answer?

 

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I agree that you can roll the dice on a retake, but schools will often average MCAT scores for screening applications. With two MCAT scores on the books, you need to push +10 above your higher score (meaning 519). Most of us expect +3 as the best one can do as a reapplicant, especially once you hit the 510s (because of the way scaled scores and percentiles are related here); it's easier to gain 3 in the 500's, so good for you for +5.

What comes through with your description is your interest in serving others through your artistic interest/photography. How should this insight inform us about your vision as a future physician? Why should your classmates look up to you? Do you have an answer?

Thank you very much for your reply! The artistic interest (which was not photography) was more along the lines of an extracurricular and an otherwise small part of my application. The major topics which I discussed were my childhood experiences, clinical volunteering, CNA job, and research.

 

[candbgirl]

Thank you very much for your reply! The artistic interest (which was not photography) was more along the lines of an extracurricular and an otherwise small part of my application. The major topics which I discussed were my childhood experiences, clinical volunteering, CNA job, and research.

In your WAMC post, you specifically said/mentioned photography in your nonclinical entry. In @Mr.Smile12 stated “What comes through with your description is your interest in serving others through your artistic interest/photography. How should this insight inform us about your vision as a future physician? Why should your classmates look up to you? Do you have an answer?”.

So he was correct in mentioning photography as your stated means of serving others.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

In your WAMC post, you specifically said/mentioned photography in your nonclinical entry. In @Mr.Smile12 stated “What comes through with your description is your interest in serving others through your artistic interest/photography. How should this insight inform us about your vision as a future physician? Why should your classmates look up to you? Do you have an answer?”.

So he was correct in mentioning photography as your stated means of serving others.

Just adding for OP: You also say you earned 20+ awards and "international recognition" for artistic endeavors. You have mentioned art more than just once, so if it's a hobby... great. I want to know if there is more meaning to it that would be germane to becoming a student in the class.

 

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Just adding for OP: You also say you earned 20+ awards and "international recognition" for artistic endeavors. You have mentioned art more than just once, so if it's a hobby... great. I want to know if there is more meaning to it that would be germane to becoming a student in the class.

Thank you both for your comments, and I now understand Mr. Smile's comment . I will try to incorporate this more into my application this time around. Initially I had a hard time tying together the artistic endeavor and medicine, and I felt like I should simply keep it as a hobby/extracurricular.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thank you both for your comments, and I now understand Mr. Smile's comment . I will try to incorporate this more into my application this time around. Initially I had a hard time tying together the artistic endeavor and medicine, and I felt like I should simply keep it as a hobby/extracurricular.

This would be a great opportunity to sandbox this. How were you trying to do this originally?