Need Help picking DO schools..Please Help

[dreams4life]

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Hi: I posted this before in the MD forum. I need advice for the DO schools also.
I took the MCAT three times
My latest score is 26 M
Vs 7, Ps 8, Bs 11
GPA 3.75
80+ hrs of volunteer service in Veteran's Memorial Home
50+ hrs of Volunteer service in hospital
2 Years of Research with about Fungal species
Tri-Beta Honors society
.Dean’s Honor List for 6 semesters.
.Lambda Alpha Sigma Honor Society
Participated in several research presentations
.Worked as a greenhouse assistant
office assistant of a well-know Cancer researcher and editor


I really need help with choosing the right schools. I am a re-applicant. Thank you in advance.

I applied late last year and only got one interview and got wait-listed.

 

[FrkyBgStok]

you are gonna have to be more specific. is there a region you are looking for? do you have an MD letter or a DO letter and if you have an MD, could you or would you get a DO letter? where do you want to practice? etc.

Congrats on the 8 point increase from your last MCAT.

 

[dreams4life]

Thank you. I live in NJ. So I am planning to go somewhere around here. But I am not strict about it. I am willing to go anywhere to study medicine. I would like to practice around here. I haven't shadowed a doctor yet and I am calling different doctor's offices to find an opportunity.

 

[SisterDisco08]

Thank you. I live in NJ. So I am planning to go somewhere around here. But I am not strict about it. I am willing to go anywhere to study medicine. I would like to practice around here. I haven't shadowed a doctor yet and I am calling different doctor's offices to find an opportunity.

It might not even be worth it to apply this cycle if you haven't shadowed any physician yet. You're missing a really important piece of your application, and many schools won't even look at you if you don't have that component.

YOU may know you want to be doctor because you can feel that drive inside, but you need to show everyone else by shadowing. Everyone else competing against you for a spot is living and breathing the medical profession, and spending as much time around physicians as possible. You may think you know what you're getting yourself into, but you really don't. I want to do primary care and my most insightful experiences have been in the ER and Neurosurgery departments.

By the time you get the experience you need by the end of the summer, it will be too late to give your application a fighting chance. You might have that little naive glimmer in the back of your mind saying "I could be the exception," but don't listen to it. You won't be. These schools are getting thousands of applications, and probably 95% of them are top notch applicants--either as good as you or better. You need something to make your application different in a good way--lacking something that almost every single other application has is not the way to do it. Applying without any shadowing would be a waste of money and time.

My motto: Better applicants than me don't get accepted. What can I do differently to have a successful outcome?