New Member... Hi everyone and I am doing the typical ~what are my chances of getting in~?

[cranberrytea]

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So I remembered that applications for 2016 opened today and well this was supposed to be my year. Sadly, I was advised not to, so I spent all day depressed and feeling horrible from my lack of success. I feel a lot better and decided to mock-fill the application and I noticed it was not so bad. However, what are my chances of still getting in?

AMCAS GPA
Running overall 3.19
BCPM 3.02
All other 3.54

My first year I ****ed up badly in my community college. After that, I kept improving landing in the Dean's list three times. I graduated in four years and then attended a university for a year. I was improving really good and throughout the whole year I made it in the Dean's list.
However, I transferred once again to another university from where I graduated due to my mental health. I made the Dean's list throughout my last two years. However, this transfer reduced my GPA severely. I went from an overall 3.8 to a 3.2 like if I never transferred. Seeing this impact just made me regret that I should have sucked up my mental health issues (even though it landed me in a psychiatric ward. I feel much more saner just today was a bit hard) and continued to have a proper GPA for medical school.

Volunteer work at a hospital setting is still lacking (only completed 25 hours because the experience was horrible). Applying to new hospitals as of now. But I do have volunteer teaching in laboratories.
I am considered disadvantage and URM.

So bring it people, what are my chances? I am still debating if a post-bacc program is even worth it since they are getting competitive and money is starting to become an issue. I'm still working on the volunteer hours in a hospital and I am studying for the MCAT. I may end up doing DO, but honestly I want to do the MD/PhD route

Anyways, thanks for your advice people. I plan to stick here more since I see a lot of support and it'll just give me more information from actual students and not just an advisor that goes by the book.

 

[familyaerospace]

First of all, there is a WAMC thread/folder/forum/something.


The very first thing I see that is a flag is your GPA. They are lower than most schools really want to see for MD and incredibly low for MD/PhD. You are probably going to be screened out even though you are URM and disadvantaged. That only helps you so much. I have both those and a 3.5+ uGPA and only was accepted in my fourth round.

Try to get your current life (mental health mostly is what it sounds like) straightened out before you even consider applying. I'm not even sure you should even be thinking of a post-bacc or SMP or anything else until that issue is resolved completely 100%.

The positive thing about that GPA is that since you admitted it was mostly that first year in CC that did you in, we can fix that. DO schools have the grade replacement which is going to be your best friend. Redo all the Ds/Fs. Consider redoing all the Cs or as many Cs as you can. (There is a C on my record which for a million dollars I would not retake that Elementary Russian class!) Otherwise you have a lot of extra classes to take before you get that GPA up to become competitive and even then, AMCAS might look at the bad grades and say... no. Remember that is just for the MD, not even the MD/PhD programs. I know there are DO/PhD programs but I cannot begin to imagine if they function any differently from MD/PhD programs on selection ( @Goro is more likely to know).

You have no idea what your MCAT is going to be, so I would suggest studying for that and letting us know at least if it is below average, average, or above average.

The volunteer hours need to increase, but you know that. Make sure you throw in some non-medical ones too.

Shadowing would be good, some research, publications, etc.

Applying broadly when you do decide to apply and have a better application is also going to be a good idea.

 

[Goro]

OP, what community do you represent?