MD & DO SCHOOL LIST HELP; cGPA: 3.723, sGPA:3.636, MCAT 505

[dtan5457]

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS cGPA: 3.723, sGPA:3.636 (strong uptrend in cGPA especially in last 3 years from a 3.1 slow first semester)
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown
   1. Latest attempt – pending 7/17 for results
   2. First attempt – 505 (127/122/128/128)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US) NY
4. Ethnicity and/or race Asian
5. Undergraduate institution or category Baruch College
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   1. Non-volunteer: 1000 hours as a clinics informatics specialist/scribe (projected 3000 more before potential matriculation),
   2. 2000 hours as a direct support professional
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. 120 hours as a Crisis counselor for crisis text line (180 projected more)
   2. 160 hours as an intern for virtual mentoring in medicine program
   3. 48 hours as a psych research assistant (which lead to a publication)
   4. 152 hours as a psych research assistant for another professor
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. 72 hours virtual shadowing, 124 more anticipated
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. 128 hours as a volunteer for national alliance on mental illness
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. over 4000 hours of going to the gym for personal fitness goals and training clients
11. Anything else not listed you think might be important

ALREADY APPLIED:
MDs:
SUNY UPSTATE
ROWAN

DOs:
TOURO NY/CA
ROWAN
ROCKY VISTA
NOVA
ALABAMA
CCOM
DMU
LECOM (PA)
MSU
NYITCOM

@Goro @Faha

Also, can I ask for your opinions on going to a "higher tier" DO school as opposed to a "lower tier" MD school?

Thanks!

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[Goro]

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS cGPA: 3.723, sGPA:3.636 (strong uptrend in cGPA especially in last 3 years from a 3.1 slow first semester)
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown
   1. Latest attempt – pending 7/17 for results
   2. First attempt – 505 (127/122/128/128)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US) NY
4. Ethnicity and/or race Asian
5. Undergraduate institution or category Baruch College
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   1. Non-volunteer: 1000 hours as a clinics informatics specialist/scribe (projected 3000 more before potential matriculation),
   2. 2000 hours as a direct support professional
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. 120 hours as a Crisis counselor for crisis text line (180 projected more)
   2. 160 hours as an intern for virtual mentoring in medicine program
   3. 48 hours as a psych research assistant (which lead to a publication)
   4. 152 hours as a psych research assistant for another professor
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. 72 hours virtual shadowing, 124 more anticipated
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. 128 hours as a volunteer for national alliance on mental illness
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. over 4000 hours of going to the gym for personal fitness goals and training clients
11. Anything else not listed you think might be important

ALREADY APPLIED:
MDs:
SUNY UPSTATE
ROWAN

DOs:
TOURO NY/CA
ROWAN
ROCKY VISTA
NOVA
ALABAMA
CCOM
DMU
LECOM (PA)
MSU
NYITCOM

@Goro @Faha

Also, can I ask for your opinions on going to a "higher tier" DO school as opposed to a "lower tier" MD school?

Thanks!

The DO schools you should avoid are the for-profit ones, the ones in my bad boy list, and those that haven't graduated a class yet. You'll be okay with any of the others.

 

[dtan5457]

The DO schools you should avoid are the for-profit ones, the ones in my bad boy list, and those that haven't graduated a class yet. You'll be okay with any of the others.

Hey, sorry, I just joined this website, did you post that list somewhere? Also any rec's for MD schools?

 

[Goro]

Rowan was most likely a donation; and with a 122 CARS, I'm not sanguine for MD, even at the SUNYs or NYMC or Albany.

I suggest:
Any DO program. Include UNECOM. I can't recommend LMU, ARCOM, RVU, BCOM, ICOM and LUCOM, for different reasons. Avoid those new schools that haven't graduated a class yet, if possible.

 

[Faha]

For DO schools I suggest these:
Touro-NY
NYITCOM
UNECOM
LECOM (all schools)
PCOM (all schools)
MU-COM
CUSOM
DMU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
KCU-COM
ACOM
UIWSOM
TUNCOM
CCOM
AZCOM
For MD schools do not add any more until your new MCAT score is available. Post your score here next month.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Hope that MCAT score goes your way. No lists until we see your official scores.

NAMI volunteering is great... what did you do? That's your only community service?

 

[dtan5457]

Hope that MCAT score goes your way. No lists until we see your official scores.

NAMI volunteering is great... what did you do? That's your only community service?

Thanks for your input.

Per my amcas description:
I volunteered for the NYC division for the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) in 2020 for three months before the office had to be temporarily closed with the onset of the pandemic. At NAMI, I met other like-minded individuals interested in making a difference in the mental health for the NYC area by providing resources to its residents either in person or by phone. We were able to assure distressed individuals going through mental health struggles that help is possible by providing information on mental health services such as the suicide hotline, mobile crisis units, government funded housing, insurance, therapists, and legal advice.

Unless the crisis textline would qualify as community service, then I believe this is it

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thanks for your input.

Per my amcas description:
I volunteered for the NYC division for the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) in 2020 for three months before the office had to be temporarily closed with the onset of the pandemic. At NAMI, I met other like-minded individuals interested in making a difference in the mental health for the NYC area by providing resources to its residents either in person or by phone. We were able to assure distressed individuals going through mental health struggles that help is possible by providing information on mental health services such as the suicide hotline, mobile crisis units, government funded housing, insurance, therapists, and legal advice.

Unless the crisis textline would qualify as community service, then I believe this is it

Okay... thanks for sharing! Then let's go with what you have. If there's anything you can do to get more face-to-face community service, I think that would quell doubts from anyone who could be concerned you don't have enough in-person community service experience.