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[aspiringdoctorbigdreams]

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[Mr.Smile12]

What do your SMP faculty suggest about applying? What is your purpose as a physician?

Do you have any service orientation community service activities? I can give you some credit with vaccine outreach, but your other listed EC's don't fit. Tutoring is an academic activity, and fundraising will not count here. (BTW, clinical research with cancer is different from your research listing?) The best activities that fit community service orientation are food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. You must have 150 hours minimum to avoid getting screened out at most schools. Did you do anything like these while in your SMP?

Would you consider an application to DO schools only? If not, I would wait a year to boost the MCAT and your service orientation hours. If you want to be a doctor "now," then your best shot would be DO schools and perhaps your in-state MD's depending on the state.

 

[aspiringdoctorbigdreams]

What do your SMP faculty suggest about applying? What is your purpose as a physician?

Do you have any service orientation community service activities? I can give you some credit with vaccine outreach, but your other listed EC's don't fit. Tutoring is an academic activity, and fundraising will not count here. (BTW, clinical research with cancer is different from your research listing?) The best activities that fit community service orientation are food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. You must have 150 hours minimum to avoid getting screened out at most schools. Did you do anything like these while in your SMP?

Would you consider an application to DO schools only? If not, I would wait a year to boost the MCAT and your service orientation hours. If you want to be a doctor "now," then your best shot would be DO schools and perhaps your in-state MD's depending on the state.

Only the vaccine outreach to rural areas during covid19 and that was about 200 hours worth of work. This was in regards to transportation services. Nothing else service oriented.
I haven’t talked to my SMP advisor yet as I just got my score an hour ago.
Yes, clinical research with cancer is different from the research I listed (it was bench research)
I’m definitely willing to apply DO. I just wanted to know if there were any MD schools at all that I would have a chance at.
Is there a school list?

 

[Faha]

Indiana is the only MD school where you could receive an interview. I suggest these DO schools with your stats:
MU-COM
LECOM (all schools)
PCOM (all schools)
DUQCOM
UP-KYCOM
WVSOM
LUCOM
LMU-DCOM (all schools)
ACOM
WCU-COM
NYIT-AR
ARCOM
UIWSOM
BCOM (both schools)
TUNCOM
Touro-Montana
BUCOM
Noorda-COM

 

[aspiringdoctorbigdreams]

Indiana is the only MD school where you could receive an interview. I suggest these DO schools with your stats:
MU-COM
LECOM (all schools)
PCOM (all schools)
DUQCOM
UP-KYCOM
WVSOM
LUCOM
LMU-DCOM (all schools)
ACOM
WCU-COM
NYIT-AR
ARCOM
UIWSOM
BCOM (both schools)
TUNCOM
Touro-Montana
BUCOM
Noorda-COM

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[chilly_md]

Thank you so much! I was wondering if I can go ahead and apply to a few MD schools and retake my MCAT in September and update the schools in October?

It will be too late for most besides potentially IU. They will see you have the other 2 scores and decide most likely instead of waiting.