Too late to add schools?

This forum made possible through the generous support of SDN members, donors, and sponsors. Thank you.

ItsGoingTibiaOK

Full Member
2+ Year Member
Joined
Oct 31, 2019
Messages
66
Reaction score
81
I know it's still early in the cycle, but I'm a little worried I should have applied to more schools. I tried to apply broadly, but cut quite a few programs from my list mostly due to secondary costs. I have received interviews from 1 DO and 1 MD program, but I'm considering adding some schools. Here are my stats, where I applied, and schools I may add:

Stats:

cGPA/sGPA: both 3.5; decent trend 3.75 senior year and 3.94 post-bacc

BS in Neuroscience from top 10 public school, GA Resident, not URM or ORM

MCAT: 516 (127/130/128/131)

Clinical hours: 500 (free clinic volunteer, hospital volunteer, medical scribe, PT Technician, clinical research coordinator)

Research: 2200 (oncology lab, medical device engineering, neurology clinical research)- no publications

Non-Clinical Volunteer: 210 (volunteer personal trainer, food bank, phone buddy for Veterans, cancer research fundraising)

Shadowing: 60 virtual hours, 130 ER scribe hours, currently shadow neurologists weekly
Other: personal trainer and bowling alley manager

Employment: Worked part time most of undergrad: personal trainer, bowling alley manager

Current gap year: Working as a clinical research coordinator at a large medical campus. Also doing some non-clinical volunteering. I'm hoping to find some shadowing experiences but COVID is making that challenging. This should add another ~500 clinical, ~1000 research and ~150 non-clinical volunteer hours over the next year.

Applied:
MD:
Uniformed Services
George Washington
Wake Forest
Michigan
Georgetown
Drexel
UAB
USF
Zucker
Virginia Tech
Rush
Albert Einstein
Miami
Loyola
Dartmouth
Brown
Case Western
Creighton
Emory
Temple
Colorado
Tulane
Mercer
MCG

DO:
LECOM-Bradenton
VCOM
Midwestern-Chicago
PCOM- GA
NYITCOM

Considering Adding:
MD:
Albany
Penn State
Oakland Beaumont
Carle Illinois
Chicago Med at Rosalind
Eastern Virginia
Hackensack-Meridian
Northeast Ohio
Vermont
TCU
Wayne State
West Virginia

DO:
ICOM
RVUCOM

Is it too late in the cycle to add any of these schools? Other programs I should look at? Suggestions for improving weaknesses in case I have to apply again next cycle? Thanks for any advice or input!

Members don't see this ad.
 
Members don't see this ad :)
I know it's still early in the cycle, but I'm a little worried I should have applied to more schools. I tried to apply broadly, but cut quite a few programs from my list mostly due to secondary costs. I have received interviews from 1 DO and 1 MD program, but I'm considering adding some schools. Here are my stats, where I applied, and schools I may add:

Stats:

cGPA/sGPA: both 3.5; decent trend 3.75 senior year and 3.94 post-bacc

BS in Neuroscience from top 10 public school, GA Resident, not URM or ORM

MCAT: 516 (127/130/128/131)

Clinical hours: 500 (free clinic volunteer, hospital volunteer, medical scribe, PT Technician, clinical research coordinator)

Research: 2200 (oncology lab, medical device engineering, neurology clinical research)- no publications

Non-Clinical Volunteer: 210 (volunteer personal trainer, food bank, phone buddy for Veterans, cancer research fundraising)

Shadowing: 60 virtual hours, 130 ER scribe hours, currently shadow neurologists weekly
Other: personal trainer and bowling alley manager

Employment: Worked part time most of undergrad: personal trainer, bowling alley manager

Current gap year: Working as a clinical research coordinator at a large medical campus. Also doing some non-clinical volunteering. I'm hoping to find some shadowing experiences but COVID is making that challenging. This should add another ~500 clinical, ~1000 research and ~150 non-clinical volunteer hours over the next year.

Applied:
MD:
Uniformed Services
George Washington
Wake Forest
Michigan
Georgetown
Drexel
UAB
USF
Zucker
Virginia Tech
Rush
Albert Einstein
Miami
Loyola
Dartmouth
Brown
Case Western
Creighton
Emory
Temple
Colorado
Tulane
Mercer
MCG

DO:
LECOM-Bradenton
VCOM
Midwestern-Chicago
PCOM- GA
NYITCOM

Considering Adding:
MD:
Albany
Penn State
Oakland Beaumont
Carle Illinois
Chicago Med at Rosalind
Eastern Virginia
Hackensack-Meridian
Northeast Ohio
Vermont
TCU
Wayne State
West Virginia

DO:
ICOM
RVUCOM

Is it too late in the cycle to add any of these schools? Other programs I should look at? Suggestions for improving weaknesses in case I have to apply again next cycle? Thanks for any advice or input!
Are you from Ohio?
 
Top