School list advice for a reapp?

[DrDwayneJohnson]

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[gyngyn]

I can't tell your state of residence from your list.
Is this the list from the last cycle?
Where did you get interviews?
Any previous MCAT's?

 

[DrDwayneJohnson]

I can't tell your state of residence from your list.
Is this the list from the last cycle?
Where did you get interviews?
Any previous MCAT's?

State of residence: Missouri
Interviews: MU, Georgetown, USUHS
Only MCAT is the 509

My previous list was GTown, MU, USUHS, Columbia, Mayo (x2), Feinberg, SLU, Rush, Loyola, MCW, Jeff, Temple, USF, Creighton, GW, Wake Forest, SUNY Downstate, Miami, Brown, Iowa


Edit: I chose those nearby public schools due to rural focus/scribing a doc who is a KU alumnus.

 

[gyngyn]

State of residence: Missouri
Interviews: MU, Georgetown, USUHS
Only MCAT is the 509

My previous list was GTown, MU, USUHS, Columbia, Mayo (x2), Feinberg, SLU, Rush, Loyola, MCW, Jeff, Temple, USF, Creighton, GW, Wake Forest, SUNY Downstate, Miami, Brown, Iowa


Edit: I chose those nearby public schools due to rural focus/scribing a doc who is a KU alumnus.

You will do better with the new list.
Delete UCLA, and UNC from the new list.
Substitute schools where you haven't previously applied that have a median around 30 and matriculate at least 15-20% OOS.

 

[DrDwayneJohnson]

Between Netter, Albany, Geisinger, and MSUCHM which two would you recommend replace UCLA/UNC?

 

[hopflyacptd123]

Between Netter, Albany, Geisinger, and MSUCHM which two would you recommend replace UCLA/UNC?

do netter and MSUCHM (or Creighton)

 

[gyngyn]

Between Netter, Albany, Geisinger, and MSUCHM which two would you recommend replace UCLA/UNC?

Albany and MSU

 

[Goro]

Here is a more realistic list:

Miami
St. Louis
Albany
Rochester
Rush (note: very service/experience oriented with a 150hr service requirement. Avg student has 800 hours of community service, and >1800 hours of health care exposure.)
Rosy Franklin
NYMC
MCW
VCU
EVMS
Wake Forest
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
Tulane
Loyola
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Oakland-B
Western MI
Any DO program. I can't recommend Touro-NY, or LUCOM, for different reasons. Start list with KCU, KCOM, DMU, and the two AR schools.

Your state schools

I'm confident a large part of my need to reapply was a terrible school list last year. I was apply to places like Feinberg, Mayo (x2), Columbia P&S, etc. with a 509 and a 124 in CARS. Obviously not the greatest plan I've ever had.

Background:
Stats: BCPM & cGPA 3.8 (biochem at public uni); MCAT 509 (127/124/130/126)

Work experience: scribe for ~ 1 year, ROTC/guard for 4 years, one semester working for the school

ECs: homeless shelter this past semester and continuing over summer, public health trip abroad for one month, one week service trip to HIV/AIDS clinic, 1.5 years volunteering in ER

Research: two different labs with the last 18 months being in my current lab. 2 poster presentations and 1 publication I contributed on has been submitted to mid-tier journal.

General: rural background and grew up in lower middle class family

School list:

MD

Missouri
Kansas
UIC
Georgetown
West Virginia
UCLA
OUWB
Indiana
Wright State
VCU
AZ-Tucson
NYMC
Central Mich
UNC
USUHS

DO

AZCOM
ATSU-Kirksville
OSU
MSUCOM
KCU
Nova

I think it's a pretty decent list with a couple of low chance school's (UNC + UCLA) but miracles can happen. I've thought about schools like GW or Jeff but their low yields are concerning.


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[DrDwayneJohnson]

Here is a more realistic list:

Miami
St. Louis
Albany
Rochester
Rush (note: very service/experience oriented with a 150hr service requirement. Avg student has 800 hours of community service, and >1800 hours of health care exposure.)
Rosy Franklin
NYMC
MCW
VCU
EVMS
Wake Forest
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
Tulane
Loyola
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Oakland-B
Western MI
Any DO program. I can't recommend Touro-NY, or LUCOM, for different reasons. Start list with KCU, KCOM, DMU, and the two AR schools.

Your state schools

Does reapplying to Miami, St. Louis, MCW, Wake Forest, Jeff, Temple, Creighton, Tulane, and Loyola look bad? I've previously seen posts indicating/hinting there's a "punishment" of sorts for reapplying the next year (though my app is quite different this year with scribing, 1 pub, and volunteering at the homeless shelter)


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[hopflyacptd123]

Does reapplying to Miami, St. Louis, MCW, Wake Forest, Jeff, Temple, Creighton, Tulane, and Loyola look bad? I've previously seen posts indicating/hinting there's a "punishment" of sorts for reapplying the next year (though my app is quite different this year with scribing, 1 pub, and volunteering at the homeless shelter)


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It doesn't, I got an interview at a few schools I reapplied to

 

[DrDwayneJohnson]

It doesn't, I got an interview at a few schools I reapplied to

I would reapply but I'm convinced my 124 in CARS was what the issue was with all of the schools in question.

I'll have to check the 2018 edition of MSAR to see if any of them accepted people with a 124 subsection.


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[Goro]

SFN hyperbole.

You get dinged if you reapply too soon without fixing your deficits. The wise @gonnif has commented extensively about this. What's galling to me is that people who have 1000s of hours of research experience are too lazy (or stupid) to simply go to the admissions website of the med school that rejected them to look for their advice on reapplying.

And applying late in the cycle one year can often be followed by an acceptance the following cycle merely by applying on time!

Does reapplying to Miami, St. Louis, MCW, Wake Forest, Jeff, Temple, Creighton, Tulane, and Loyola look bad? I've previously seen posts indicating/hinting there's a "punishment" of sorts for reapplying the next year (though my app is quite different this year with scribing, 1 pub, and volunteering at the homeless shelter)


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[DrDwayneJohnson]

SFN hyperbole.

You get dinged if you reapply too soon without fixing your deficits. The wise @gonnif has commented extensively about this. What's galling to me is that people who have 1000s of hours of research experience are too lazy (or stupid) to simply go to the admissions website of the med school that rejected them to look for their advice on reapplying.

And applying late in the cycle one year can often be followed by an acceptance the following cycle merely by applying on time!

Oh yes, I've seen the plethora of posts (and those refusing to listen to them). Thankfully, a few of my schools had it explicitly listed on their websites and a couple others responded back with feedback. I'll reach out to a few more and see if there's more I can do before I start receiving secondary apps.

 

[gyngyn]

Does reapplying to Miami, St. Louis, MCW, Wake Forest, Jeff, Temple, Creighton, Tulane, and Loyola look bad? I've previously seen posts indicating/hinting there's a "punishment" of sorts for reapplying the next year (though my app is quite different this year with scribing, 1 pub, and volunteering at the homeless shelter)


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Some schools get their better matriculants in the re-applicant pool.
Others hardly look at them.

 

[aymar]

I know that deleting UNC has already been suggested, but wanted to point out that their website asks for a minimum MCAT of 513 from out of state students. Might be worth looking at other schools websites on your list to make sure they don't have hard cutoffs. Would be sad to waste all that money and get screened out 🙁

 

[DrDwayneJohnson]

I know that deleting UNC has already been suggested, but wanted to point out that their website asks for a minimum MCAT of 513 from out of state students. Might be worth looking at other schools websites on your list to make sure they don't have hard cutoffs. Would be sad to waste all that money and get screened out 🙁

Good point and nice catch! UCLA and UNC were my two "well you never know" options so I didn't put any thought/research into those. However, the others ones I've spent a decent amount of time on. Mostly on MSAR, but hashing out specifics on each respective website is the next step.


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