Medical School List Help

[Goro]

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I just need some help picking which schools to apply to based on my stats:

- cGPA: 3.60
- sGPA: 3.47
- MCAT: 509 (128/125/129/127)
- Eagle Scout
- Served as Assistant Scoutmaster/ Senior Patrol leader for 3 years (600 hours)
- President of Honors program at cc for 2 years (700 hours)
- Church camp volunteer (160 hours)
- Research 600 hours, no pubs
- Hospital volunteering 250 hours
- Department coordinator for volunteers at hospital 300 hours
- 150 hours of physician shadowing (DO, MD, and DPM)
- upward trend
- 200 hours in other non-medical volunteering
- CA resident
- ORM

I'd be happy to provide other info as needed. Thanks!

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I recommend the following:
George Washington
Georgetown
SLU
Albany
Rush
Rosy Franklin
NYMC
MCW
VCU
EVMS
Wayne State
Wake Forest
Netter
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
Tulane
Loyola
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Oakland-B
Seton Hall
Nova MD
CUSM
Kaiser if you’re from CA
UCD
UCI
UCR IF you're from the Inland Empire
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.
To keep you close to home, consider:
Western (both)
PacNW
BCOM
Touro-CA and NV
KCU
RVU (both)
AZCOM

 

[Goro]

SLU has a median GPA of 3.9. How come you recommend it?

Didn't add these because:
Creighton requires Physiology (which I don't have).
Seton Hall has a tiny class size and they're Catholic.
Nova is also tiny.
CUSM isn't fully accredited yet.

And for the DO schools, I really didn't know much (hence why I asked) so thank you! I didn't know about the accreditation warning.

Tiny means nothing. There are a bunch of other Catholic med schools, and that also means nothing. The only schools where religion is a big thing are LUCOM and Loma Linda.

I know that "not being fully accredited yet." is a scary term, but this is an LCME-accredited school. They know what they're doing.

As for SLU, you're right. Your GPAs are < their 10th %iles. Delete them from the list.

Invest in MSAR Online and do the same for the other MD schools on my list.