Non-trad - help with school list

[loopdloopofhenle]

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Resolved. Thank you all for your help!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums. Let us know when your MCAT comes in.

Make sure you connect with MSPA as a gender-non-conforming applicant.

You can list activities from undergrad, but I would make sure you focus on the last 2 years. Highlight activities that are relevant to your preparation and purpose as a physician.

I suggest focusing on the most recent role you have under the same company, even if you started sorting mail. List under one activity, and focus on your most recent responsibilities.

 

[LunaOri]

Your experiences look great to me, especially if you have some recent volunteering. With a strong MCAT, you should have a good chance at many schools.

 

[loopdloopofhenle]

Apologies for the delay, and thank you both for your responses. I just got my MCAT score back today, it's a 517. I'm hoping for some help crafting a school list. I applied early July using throwaway method, and am in the verification queue currently. I've also pre-written some secondaries to try to get ahead.

 

[Faha]

I suggest adding these schools to your application:
OHSU
Mayo
TCU
Creighton
St. Louis
Northwestern
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
USF Morsani
Emory
Tulane
Wake Forest
Georgetown
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Rochester
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
UMass
Dartmouth
Brown
Tufts
Boston University

 

[loopdloopofhenle]

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond, Faha. A lot of the schools you listed are already on my list, so glad to see I was in the right ballpark. I will research the other schools you suggested that I didn't have! Regarding Rosalind Franklin and Georgetown, I didn't add them because I thought they prefer significantly more non-clinical volunteering hours than I have. Would they consider my application with only 265 hours?

 

[Faha]

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond, Faha. A lot of the schools you listed are already on my list, so glad to see I was in the right ballpark. I will research the other schools you suggested that I didn't have! Regarding Rosalind Franklin and Georgetown, I didn't add them because I thought they prefer significantly more non-clinical volunteering hours than I have. Would they consider my application with only 265 hours?

265 hours of non clinical volunteering are adequate for those 2 schools.

 

[loopdloopofhenle]

Great, thank you! I have one more question for you all. I've been out of school around 10 years now. I'm wondering if my MCAT score is good enough to show admissions committees that I still have some academic chops? I'm a little nervous they may think I can't handle the rigor of medical school after being out of school for so long.

 

[LunaOri]

Yes, I would look at the MCAT and conclude that you had enough up-to-date knowledge of core subjects to potentially succeed in medical school. For some schools, prerequisites expire, so if you took them 10 years ago that may limit your school list.