Refine School List/WAMC 3.59/508

[emmaparent]

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: cGPA-3.59, sGPA-3.59 (with upward trend ~3.8 for last 4 semesters)
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown: 508 with 125 chem, 125 cars, 128 bio, 130 psych
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): Colorado, currently living in PA for masters
4. Ethnicity and/or race: ORM-biracial? Half chinese, half white
5. Undergraduate institution or category: state school (colorado state university)
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): EMT + iv cert --> ~70 hours?
7. Research experience and productivity: research for 2 years in undergrad ~300 hour. helped train deer, cats and rabbits for research procedures for about a year. currently in a master's which will add research hours for thesis is covid steps back a little lol
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: shadowed ~20 hours of 2 different ER docs and spent a month in DR if they even care(~120hr)
9. Non-clinical volunteering: ~15 hours at food pantry for elder jewish community so far (continue after covid 5-10 hours a month). volunteer with a org that bakes birthday cakes for foster kids (will continue after covid), made over 100 masks for hospitals including chop so far, and still making them (and ~20 hours delivering them to elders in the community). yeah i know, its weak..
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): 2 years on biomedical student association as an officer, 1 year on facility fee advisory board helping detemine how to spend 2 million budget on university buildings. volunteer as a vet tech as a spay/neuter clinic, currently a TA for a post bac program at jefferson (for the past 2 semesters)
11. Relevant honors or awards: deans list last 2 years
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important: currently doing a master's in microbiology at jefferson. i know its not considered "experience," but my brother is autistic which exposed me to all of stuff which i might write about in my PS

i know everything about my app is weak, but we'll see if covid ever calms down i can continue to at some things..dont roast me too hard
anyway, i have a list of schools im thinking about, but let me know your thoughts because i should probably cut it down..

MD:
colorado
loyola uni
Creighton
wayne state
albany
west virginia university
Medical college of wisconsin
oakland uni william beaumont
university of washington
penn state
rush medical college
tulane
university of vermont
university of missouri kansas city
virginia commonwealth
eastern virginia
georgetown
george washington
university of vermont
new york medical college
jefferson
nova southeastern
tulane
wake forest
california north state
rosalind franklin*
drexel
quinnipac netter
seton hall
temple
tufts

DO:
LECOM (all)
MU-COM
CUSOM
AZCOM
RVUCOM
ATSU-KCOM
ATSU-SOMA
KCU-COM
CCOM
DMU-COM
PCOM
NYITCOM
TUCOM CA
COMP/western U


thanks guys!

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[Faha]

Your low clinical exposure will limit your chances for interviews. Your MD school list is not realistic. You have state public schools that accept very few non residents with your stats and no connection to the state( U Washington accepts less than 1% of applicants who are not from states in the Northwest). You also have schools that look for applicants with extensive clinical and non clinical volunteering (Rush, Creighton,Loyola, Georgetown). I suggest these MD schools with your stats and ECs:
Colorado
TCU-UNT
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
NOVA MD
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Albany
New York Medical College
Seton Hall
Vermont
Quinnipiac
You should receive several interviews from your DO list.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Hours hours hours.... discount the DR work and you have just 20 shadowing in the US? I am guessing many people will be counting on their own home hours freelancing while making masks or something... it's not clear how this is going to be received. I would leverage as much help with the food pantry and delivery opportunity while we are still in this situation.

I don't know the domicility rules among the schools you want to attend on whether you count as PA or CO. I agree that your DO list will be more fruitful than your MD chances.

 

[m1redsox]

With your hours and stats, I don’t think you should be applying to MD schools at all—especially as an ORM. I say to just stick to your DO school list. If you decide to go for MDs anyways, definitely remove:
UW
Cal Northstate
West Virginia
All for IS bias

 

[emmaparent]

yeah, I know its weak. I am mostly applying to DO, but wanted to see if I had any chances at MD, so I was going to apply to some of those to see if they would maybe give me an interview. As you can see I'm very clueless and I was hoping to increase my hours over the next few month but obviously that is not happening.

But thanks anyway for the input, i appreciate it.