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State of residence: Massachusetts
College: UMass Amherst
GPA: 3.55 (both my science GPA and my major GPA are ~3.55 as well)
MCAT: 33 (12 PS, 10 BS, 11 VR)
Major: Spanish
I applied to and was rejected last year by:
Harvard
Tufts
BU
UVM
Vanderbilt
URochester
GW
Georgetown
Brown
Dartmouth
LECOM (DO School)
UMass
NYMC
I was waitlisted by:
Quinnipiac
NOVA Southeastern (DO School)
Extracurriculars:
Big Brother Big Sister: 400 hours (+200 more from high school)
Soup Kitchen: 30 hours (I started this recently but quit it because I was hired at a new job)
EMT-B certified, but I have never practiced
Work experience:
Full-time this past year and a half as a dish room supervisor for a dining hall on campus
Part-time for 3 years of college (student telephone fundraiser)
Full-time summers the last two years of high school and the first year of campus (camp counselor)
As you can see, I am pretty strong academically but I am weak just about everywhere else. On top of that, I kinda screwed around my first two years of college until I decided I wanted to do medicine, so I have an F on my transcript (Calc II-2nd semester) and a W on my transcript (Intermediate macroeconomics-4th semester). I really did turn things around and got an A on 8/10 pre-med courses, including an A on both Orgo's.
The past year I was well assured by people that I would get into medical school so I decided to take whatever job and worked in the dish room (I hated it). And because of that I did nothing in the past year to improve my candidacy.
Here is what I have on the plate right now: I was just hired as a 40 hour/week ER Scribe and I am also a TA for an EMS class (began at the end of May).
So is it even worth it to apply this year considering the schools that rejected me last year? (I don't think I am going to apply DO again because I don't want to do primary care.) I know I applied to some really tough schools but I did not get an interview from my in-state school or other "lower tier" schools. Are schools going to look at the two new experiences I have added (scribe and TA for EMS) and say "that's good and all but see how you do with them first"?
If you were in my shoes, would you apply again? If so, what schools would you apply to? Also, might my candidacy be that much improved by waiting a year that I could get into better schools?
Thank you
College: UMass Amherst
GPA: 3.55 (both my science GPA and my major GPA are ~3.55 as well)
MCAT: 33 (12 PS, 10 BS, 11 VR)
Major: Spanish
I applied to and was rejected last year by:
Harvard
Tufts
BU
UVM
Vanderbilt
URochester
GW
Georgetown
Brown
Dartmouth
LECOM (DO School)
UMass
NYMC
I was waitlisted by:
Quinnipiac
NOVA Southeastern (DO School)
Extracurriculars:
Big Brother Big Sister: 400 hours (+200 more from high school)
Soup Kitchen: 30 hours (I started this recently but quit it because I was hired at a new job)
EMT-B certified, but I have never practiced
Work experience:
Full-time this past year and a half as a dish room supervisor for a dining hall on campus
Part-time for 3 years of college (student telephone fundraiser)
Full-time summers the last two years of high school and the first year of campus (camp counselor)
As you can see, I am pretty strong academically but I am weak just about everywhere else. On top of that, I kinda screwed around my first two years of college until I decided I wanted to do medicine, so I have an F on my transcript (Calc II-2nd semester) and a W on my transcript (Intermediate macroeconomics-4th semester). I really did turn things around and got an A on 8/10 pre-med courses, including an A on both Orgo's.
The past year I was well assured by people that I would get into medical school so I decided to take whatever job and worked in the dish room (I hated it). And because of that I did nothing in the past year to improve my candidacy.
Here is what I have on the plate right now: I was just hired as a 40 hour/week ER Scribe and I am also a TA for an EMS class (began at the end of May).
So is it even worth it to apply this year considering the schools that rejected me last year? (I don't think I am going to apply DO again because I don't want to do primary care.) I know I applied to some really tough schools but I did not get an interview from my in-state school or other "lower tier" schools. Are schools going to look at the two new experiences I have added (scribe and TA for EMS) and say "that's good and all but see how you do with them first"?
If you were in my shoes, would you apply again? If so, what schools would you apply to? Also, might my candidacy be that much improved by waiting a year that I could get into better schools?
Thank you