MD & DO Need help with school list (3.57/513)

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[calivianya]

With your exceptional community service hours and stats, I have no doubt you'll get an II to at least one school on your list.

Make some of that shadowing you're going to get primary care, and you'll be golden.

 

[Yoshida]

I would get rid of TCOM as that is an annoying extra application outside of the regular MD or DO schools. MSU is one of the most expensive DO programs imaginable, I cant speak on their MD program as I didn't look into it. The VA MD schools will look at you because of your MCAT.

 

[enchantments]

With your exceptional community service hours and stats, I have no doubt you'll get an II to at least one school on your list.

Make some of that shadowing you're going to get primary care, and you'll be golden.

Thanks for the feedback! I'm definitely planning to shadow a primary care physician next, if possible.

I would get rid of TCOM as that is an annoying extra application outside of the regular MD or DO schools. MSU is one of the most expensive DO programs imaginable, I cant speak on their MD program as I didn't look into it. The VA MD schools will look at you because of your MCAT.

Thanks for the information; tuition is a factor I haven't looked much into, and MSU does seem to charge quite an exorbitant amount.

 

[Dr. Meliodas]

Your current list is very poor. Many of the schools on your list have extreme in-state biases or extremely small class size. You need to look at the MSAR and pick schools that match your stats and that do not have such a large in state biase. From your current list you should take out:

Marshall University
Michigan State
Rush (seems to have in-state biase)
State University of New York
University of Arizona College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
University of Illinois
University of Massachusetts
University of Toledo
USF
FIU
Virginia Tech Carilion (only has a class of 42 students)
Western Michigan University (small class size 72)
Wright State

This leaves you with

• Case Western
• University of Washington
• Washington State University Elon S. Floyd College of Medicine
• Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (North Chicago, Illinois)
• Creighton University School of Medicine (Nebraska)
• Drexel University College of Medicine (Philadelphia)
• East Virginia Medical School (Virginia)
• Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University (Connecticut)
• Georgetown University School of Medicine (D.C.)
• Loma Linda University (California)
• Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine (Chicago, Illinois)
• New York Medical College (New York)
• Rush Medical College of Rush University (Illinois)
• Tulane University School of Medicine (Louisiana)
• University of Rochester School of Medicine (New York)
• University of Vermont College of Medicine (Vermont)
• Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (Virginia)
• Wake Forest School of Medicine (North Carolina)

To this add

• George Washington
• UCLA/DREW

Your competitive for any of the DO schools.
@Goro and @Faha would provide the best advise

 

[Goro]

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Those are fine ECs.
I suggest:
Duke (maybe)
Pitt
Mayo
Miami
St. Louis
Albany
Rush
Rosy Franklin
BU
MCW
Hofstra
NYMC
VCU
EVMS
Wake Forest
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
George Washington
Georgetown
Tulane
Dartmouth
Loyola
Netter
Oakland-B
Your state school(s).
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)

Any DO program. I can't recommend Touro-NY, Nova, LUCOM, for different reasons. MSUCOM? Read up on Larry Nasser and you decide. Start list with PacNW, both Westerns, Touro-CA, TUNCOM , AZCOM and BCOM.

 

[enchantments]

Your current list is very poor. Many of the schools on your list have extreme in-state biases or extremely small class size. You need to look at the MSAR and pick schools that match your stats and that do not have such a large in state biase. From your current list you should take out:

Marshall University
Michigan State
Rush (seems to have in-state biase)
State University of New York
University of Arizona College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
University of Illinois
University of Massachusetts
University of Toledo
USF
FIU
Virginia Tech Carilion (only has a class of 42 students)
Western Michigan University (small class size 72)
Wright State

This leaves you with

• Case Western
• University of Washington
• Washington State University Elon S. Floyd College of Medicine
• Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (North Chicago, Illinois)
• Creighton University School of Medicine (Nebraska)
• Drexel University College of Medicine (Philadelphia)
• East Virginia Medical School (Virginia)
• Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University (Connecticut)
• Georgetown University School of Medicine (D.C.)
• Loma Linda University (California)
• Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine (Chicago, Illinois)
• New York Medical College (New York)
• Rush Medical College of Rush University (Illinois)
• Tulane University School of Medicine (Louisiana)
• University of Rochester School of Medicine (New York)
• University of Vermont College of Medicine (Vermont)
• Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (Virginia)
• Wake Forest School of Medicine (North Carolina)

To this add

• George Washington
• UCLA/DREW

Your competitive for any of the DO schools.
@Goro and @Faha would provide the best advise

Thanks for the feedback! I wasn't familiar with the UCLA/DREW program, but after looking into it a bit, I'll definitely be looking into it further.

Regarding a few of the schools you recommended I remove:

Illinois (~>4% interview)
Rush (3.3%)
Arizona (~4%)
Toledo (~7%)
USF (~7%)
Vtech (~4%, but low yield post-interview)

These are the percentage of OOS applicants that they interview from MSAR (some might be a tad off). I know some of these are state schools with a clear in-state preference, but due to this they seem to attract lower numbers of OOS applicants relative to other private OOS heavy schools. Given this, it seems like though they have few OOS matriculants, it balances with their relatively fewer OOS apps. E.g. GWU had ~15k OOS applicants last cycle, with ~1k OOS IIs, and ~170 OOS matriculants, whereas Toledo had ~2.5k OOS applicants, 180 OOS IIs and 42 OOS matriculants. Therefore wouldn't some of these OOS friendly state schools present better odds for an OOS applicant than low-yield privates?

For Rush, they do have a low rate of IIs for OOS applicants, but from what I've seen, they are heavily mission-based and seem to screen out applicants based on volunteer hours. They boasted a year or two back that their matriculants for the year had averaged 600-700 community service hours. I assume this would immediately screen out a good portion of their OOS applicants?

Thanks for your time!