need a little advice for picking which schools to apply to...

[DOwnage]

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After considering all my options for medical schools, I came to the conclusion that there were a few osteopathic medical school that would be extremely difficult for me to get into based on their geographic selectivity, IE. State-funded D.O. schools.

I've been real back-and-forth on this. My plan involved applying to as many schools where I would be competitive. I also only wanted to apply to only D.O. schools. However, looking at how my state M.D. school specifically targets people from my state, it appears I would actually be more competitive at my state M.D. school than at some of these out-of-state state funded D.O. schools that I would actually want to attend.

The state-M.D. school is about an hour away from my home town. If it's the only M.D. school that I apply to, will D.O. schools think that I'm not committed to osteopathic medicine since I didn't apply 100% D.O.? In other words, are distance and tuition good enough reasons (in the eyes of adcoms) to apply to one M.D. program even though an applicant strongly prefers D.O.?

 

[DoctorJDO]

AMCAS and AACOMAS are two different services. They don't see each other. So for starters, DO schools can't see how many MD schools you applied to, or if you even applied to any. Second, many if not most of the people accepted to DO schools every year apply MD as well. They might ask you a question in secondaries or interviews such as, why DO? And that will be your chance to explain. It's totally fine. most people apply to more than 1 MD school anyway, like 5+. you're all good 🙂