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It’s affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic, which is a plus.Smell the coffee. Your best hope is getting into the Ohio DO school. It's cheap, enormous and has some decent training sites. It's got a decent reputation and, from what I've seen on SDN, they aren't over the top crazy about osteopathic therapy.
Whatever you do, don't jeopardize your Ohio residency. That is your ace in the hole.
Also thoughts on schools like Wayne State, Michigan State, Uni of Wisconsin, University of Louisville, OSU, and Cincinnati etc?One thing to keep in mind is that Covid shut almost everything down for clinical volunteering. I graduated early so Covid hit my freshman year. Thank you for the suggestions! Anything regarding Chicago and other regions outside the Midwest for MD?
Definitely not a "rather than" rural. Underserved communities yes, so you will have some rotations in Youngstown, Akron, Canton, and Cleveland. But the campus is in Rootstown, which you probably know is not in an urban setting. As usual, take the advice from current students and admissions representatives more, but the focus is community-based interprofessional healthcare.Clinical hours for volunteering was assisting in over 4 units. Also shadowed neurosurgery and pulmonary. One thing that was very limiting was the start of Covid early on in my college career. Especially in the North East Ohio Region, they had just brought people back on campus about a year ago - which is when I started to focus more on research.
Also, I thought neomed focused on urban health, rather than rural?
Okay, I was asking as I know they have partner programs with local universities that aim at Urban health. Thus why I was confused. Thank you for clearing this up.Definitely not a "rather than" rural. Underserved communities yes, so you will have some rotations in Youngstown, Akron, Canton, and Cleveland. But the campus is in Rootstown, which you probably know if not in an urban setting.
Also thoughts on schools like Wayne State, Michigan State, Uni of Wisconsin, University of Louisville, OSU, and Cincinnati etc?
Your clinical exposure hours are far to low for Chicago schools such as Loyola or Rush.One thing to keep in mind is that Covid shut almost everything down for clinical volunteering. I graduated early so Covid hit my freshman year. Thank you for the suggestions! Anything regarding Chicago and other regions outside the Midwest for MD?
One thing for you to keep in mind is that absolutely every applicant has faced issues and restrictions caused by Covid. Yet somehow, despite the limitations, most have figured out how to get it all done and done well. So your 90 hours are not impressive and need to be expanded. I know this is upsetting to you because you have been viewing your application as top notch outside of the MCAT. ( Outside my MCAT, I have a pretty solid application, I compared mine to a Med Student who scored 520, my application is as good as his outside the MCAT”).One thing to keep in mind is that Covid shut almost everything down for clinical volunteering. I graduated early so Covid hit my freshman year. Thank you for the suggestions! Anything regarding Chicago and other regions outside the Midwest for MD?
One thing for you to keep in mind is that absolutely every applicant has faced issues and restrictions caused by Covid. Yet somehow, despite the limitations, most have figured out how to get it all done and done well. So your 90 hours are not impressive and need to be expanded. I know this is upsetting to you because you have been viewing your application as top notch outside of the MCAT. ( Outside my MCAT, I have a pretty solid application, I compared mine to a Med Student who scored 520, my application is as good as his outside the MCAT”).
You do have lots of research so why MD/DO and not PhD.?
Can you tell us about your 500 hours of nonclinical volunteering.
I assume you are at least thinking about applying this current cycle. Is that correct? If so, You might want to put it off until the 23-24 cycle. This will allow you to retake the MCAT and buff up your clinical experience hours.
thank you for the feedback! Any feedback on the other mentioned schools in either the original post or comments?Your clinical exposure hours are far to low for Chicago schools such as Loyola or Rush.
Faha's list is good, and I'd even say he was being generous. MD is going to be difficult with your MCAT, unless you are a perfect mission fit - something that only you would know from doing your own research. If you don't plan to take a gap-year, it would be advisable that you accept early on that your best chance will come from your IS DO school.thank you for the feedback! Any feedback on the other mentioned schools in either the original post or comments?
Unless you get a screaming score on an MCAT retake, you have no shot at any of those places. Have you signed up for an MSAR? You need to look at the admissions profile for every school you are considering. I don't subscribe anymore but I think you'd find the MCAT averages really discouraging.Also thoughts on schools like Wayne State, Michigan State, Uni of Wisconsin, University of Louisville, OSU, and Cincinnati etc?
This would be under the assumption they get that farI'm trying to say this in the nicest possible way, but with 90 hours of clinical exposure, my student interviewers would eat you alive.