Nontraditional Applicant

[muchconfuse]

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I could really use some thoughts because frankly I have no idea where I stand.

Year in school: super senior (spent 5 and 1/2 years in college, I'll be graduating after this semester). Also, I transferred colleges after my sophomore year to a smaller school in my hometown.

Country/State: US, Texas

General Stats: Indian female

Schools: All Texas MD schools, Nearby DO schools. Reach at UChicago just because I like the school.

Cumulative GPA (old school): 3.4

Science GPA (old school): 2.5. Failed Ochem 1.

Cumulative GPA (new school): 3.92

Science GPA (new school): 3.7

Major: Marketing

MCAT: 515

Research: 3 published papers, around 400 hours in pharmacy and neuroscience

Volunteering: not much.

Shadowing: 50 hours with opthalmologist, 30 hours with psychiatrist, 30 hours with sleep specialist, 30 hours with plastic surgery

Extracurriculars: dance, art, creative writing, LGBT activism and support (I help kids who were thrown out of their homes find food, shelter, and support. I'm also gay and have a bad relationship with my family so I'm passionate about this). Also in a business fraternity and an animal shelter support club.

Work: Youtube channel with around 100k subscribers, server at a restaurant over breaks, writing and math tutor, marketing interships

Other: studied abroad for a semester in Spain, can now speak Spanish fluently. While there did an internship and some hospital volunteering.

Specialty of interest: psychiatry, opthalmology

Graduate degrees: none

Rural health: no

 

[Faha]

What is your cGPA and sGPA for all your undergraduate courses? Do you have any clinical volunteering?

 

[muchconfuse]

What is your cGPA and sGPA for all your undergraduate courses? Do you have any clinical volunteering?

I'd suppose 3.7 cumulative and 3.1 in science, but some of the science courses were retaken and I don't know how that influences things.

I did some hospital work in spain. Other than that my shadowing experiences had a bit of volunteer work involved in guiding patients and such. Other than that, not really.

 

[Faha]

I suggest accumulating 200+ clinical volunteering hours (hospital setting would be good) before you apply next June. Then you would be competitive for some of your Texas MD schools and could receive interviews. Also apply to the 2 DO schools in Texas: TCOM and UIWSOM. For MD you could also try the new MD schools that may open for 2019:
NOVA MD, Roseman, Seton Hall, Kaiser.

 

[gyngyn]

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