Medical Reapplication

[Lucca]

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Hi there, non- trad student with bachelors in nursing and cumulative GPA 3.78 with BCPM 3.91 to include post-bacc science pre-med pre-reqs. Initial MCAT 505 then increased to 510 3 months later. 7 years of clinical experience as a nurse in acute inpatient. Spent that 7 years always holding a second job and gaining experience in acute care, urgent care, long term, rehab, and outpatient with 1 year as a CNA prior to that. Volunteering for years at health fairs and an under-served free community clinic as well as participating in a global health trip. Leadership experience with chairing 2 shared decision making councils at the hospital I work at, time as a charge RN, and inducted in a leadership society. Being a non-trad student I haven't had much time for research and my professor LOR's are from nursing school. Strong professional and volunteering LOR. Applied to ~16 schools and received 2 interviews with one being in-state (CO) and one out of state (CA). Waitlisted at the CA school and rejected from CO post II.

I have been offered a research nursing position I will be accepting to boost my application for next cycle though I likely wont start the actual research for about a month or two post training. Both schools previously put a large emphasis on research. Any school recommendations for my reapplication? Should I add the research position to my initial AMCAS application or send it as an update once I am past training? Thank you!

I would recommend including the research position on AMCAS as AMCAS will let you project future hours on the app. You can send an update-letter if your work happens to be published during the application cycle or you present it at a conference. The activity will likely do more good for you on the app than in an update letter.

As far as school list is concerned, you should continue to apply to your state schools but 16 total is on the lower side for a 3.8/510 but not completely unreasonable. Apply to everything in CO and use the MSAR to look for schools whose percentage of OOS matriculants is >20%. WARS will also bring up suggestions for you.

Your clinical experience is obviously beyond sufficient, but the low first-time MCAT and short school list probably prevented you from receiving more interviews. Hopefully things will be better this time around with a broader list. Consider including a few choice DO schools as well.

 

[Goro]

I recommend the following:
U VM
U Toledo
Rush
NYMC (maybe)
Creighton
Albany
Rosy Franklin
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
MCW
SLU
WVU
Wayne State
Tulane
Loyola
Loma Linda (only if you are SDA or a very devout Christian)
VCU
Netter
Seton Hall
EVMS
Oakland-B
Gtown
GWU
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Nova MD
Your state school(s).
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.