Need help with school list, 4.0 & 514

[FreudianAvalanche]

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1. Major: Health Sciences; graduated in 2018
cGPA: 4.00; sGPA: 4.00

2. MCAT scores:
April 2018: 502 (126/124/128/124)
RETAKE August 2019: 514 (129/124/131/130)

3. State of Residence: Oregon

4. Ethnicity/race: White male

5. Undergraduate institution: Oregon public school

6. Clinical Experience:
Roughly 1,500 hours scribing in the ED
300 hours scribing in outpatient clinic

7. Research Experience:
Roughly 150 hours of clinical, IRB approved research in the OR, no pubs/posters
250 hours data extraction from EMR for patients with traumatic brain injuries vs. concussions

8. Shadowing:
10 hours Interventional Radiology
15 hours Thoracic Surgery
10 hours Pediatrics
15 hours General Surgery
6 hours Radiology

9. Non-clinical volunteering:
250 hours tutoring local underprivileged K-12 students in STEM
50 hours in local animal shelter
100 hours on local committee to promote healthy living
50 hours on Student Health Advisory Committee while in undergrad
120 hours as a member o the Health Sciences club while in undergrad
90 hours as a member of local volunteer group while in undergrad misc activities
30 hours with American Heart Association

10. Other extracurriculars:
4 year intercollegiate soccer, 2 year team captain
Played 1.5 years of semi-professional soccer, 3rd tier of American soccer, also team captain

11. Extra details:
Will have LORs from two science professors and former soccer coach.
Two LORs from ED physicians
1 LOR from doc in outpatient clinic


I will apply to my in-state school (OHSU), but would love some feedback about where to apply out-of-state! Also wondering if I'm competitive enough for MD only, or if I should throw in a few DO schools just in case.

 

[vrazzles]

Good GPA
Good MCAT for schools that don't average (for those that do its on the low end)
Great clinical experience
Weak research (but enough for most schools)
Sufficient shadowing
Pretty good nonclinical volunteering
Misc. ECs awesome (ADCOMs love athletes and it helps that you were team captain)

Comments
Unless those 3 docs from whom you are getting LoRs can speak deeply about your ability to succeed in high-level science courses, those are unnecessary. The prevailing wisdom here on SDN seems to be that doc letters are often weak and provide a very incomplete picture of the applicant. However, since you have your bases covered with 2 science LoRs, you should be good. Note that some schools require a non-science LoR from a professor that has taught you.

I would use WARS to formulate your school list.

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[Faha]

I suggest these OOS MD schools with your stats:
Boston University
Tufts
Dartmouth
Brown
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Georgetown
Miami
USF Morsani
Case Western
Cincinnati
Western Michigan
Loyola
St.Louis
Creighton
Kaiser
California University

 

[FreudianAvalanche]

I suggest these OOS MD schools with your stats:
Boston University
Tufts
Dartmouth
Brown
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Georgetown
Miami
USF Morsani
Case Western
Cincinnati
Western Michigan
Loyola
St.Louis
Creighton
Kaiser
California University

Thank you so much!

 

[Goro]

1. Major: Health Sciences; graduated in 2018
cGPA: 4.00; sGPA: 4.00

2. MCAT scores:
April 2018: 502 (126/124/128/124)
RETAKE August 2019: 514 (129/124/131/130)

3. State of Residence: Oregon

4. Ethnicity/race: White male

5. Undergraduate institution: Oregon public school

6. Clinical Experience:
Roughly 1,500 hours scribing in the ED
300 hours scribing in outpatient clinic

7. Research Experience:
Roughly 150 hours of clinical, IRB approved research in the OR, no pubs/posters
250 hours data extraction from EMR for patients with traumatic brain injuries vs. concussions

8. Shadowing:
10 hours Interventional Radiology
15 hours Thoracic Surgery
10 hours Pediatrics
15 hours General Surgery
6 hours Radiology

9. Non-clinical volunteering:
250 hours tutoring local underprivileged K-12 students in STEM
50 hours in local animal shelter
100 hours on local committee to promote healthy living
50 hours on Student Health Advisory Committee while in undergrad
120 hours as a member o the Health Sciences club while in undergrad
90 hours as a member of local volunteer group while in undergrad misc activities
30 hours with American Heart Association

10. Other extracurriculars:
4 year intercollegiate soccer, 2 year team captain
Played 1.5 years of semi-professional soccer, 3rd tier of American soccer, also team captain

11. Extra details:
Will have LORs from two science professors and former soccer coach.
Two LORs from ED physicians
1 LOR from doc in outpatient clinic


I will apply to my in-state school (OHSU), but would love some feedback about where to apply out-of-state! Also wondering if I'm competitive enough for MD only, or if I should throw in a few DO schools just in case.

Suggest
Pitt (maybe)
U Toledo
U VM
Miami
Tufts
George Washington
Georgetown
SLU
Albany
Rush
Rosy Franklin
NYMC
MCW
VCU
EVMS
Wayne State
Wake Forest
Netter
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
Tulane
Loyola
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Oakland-B
Seton Hall
Nova MD
TCU/UNT
ALL OH schools
Any DO program. I can't recommend Touro-NY, Nova, Wm Carey, LUCOM, for different reasons. MSUCOM? Read up on Larry Nasser and you decide. LMU has an accreditation warning, which concerns me. CalHS is too new and appears to be too limited in rotations sites.