SunflowerMV
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Hello all, forgive me, but I will be making assumptions for my MCAT score as I want to gauge the possibility of making it into school before focusing on the MCAT.
Kansas
White Male
Local Undergrad (Philosophy): cGPA 3.48 sGPA 2.96 -- Four undergraduate institutions over six years, worked full-time+ the whole time, ultimately received degree while deployed to the Middle East
Graduate (Law): 3.46 GPA from Notre Dame (About the median gpa)
Local Postbacc (DIY): 4.0 (20 credits science (OChem II, Phys I/II, Biochem) so raise sGPA to 3.27ish)
MCAT: I figure I’ll be able to do okay at least considering my LSAT and Bar Exam scores. I think 500-510 is possible. Plan to take before/by Spring 2026.
400 hours as a scribe from 2019
Going to get more shadowing time over my days off in ED/Pathology/Surgery
Leadership/Extracurriculars:
12 years in Air National Guard (Enlisted) leading and managing teams of five to twenty. 1 year as a Judge Advocate (Officer).
Pro-Bono time volunteering my legal services for Domestic Violence Shelter in town.
LOR: Flight doctor from military, Commander from military, Head of the hospital ED Physician’s Union, Faculty member at city’s new DO school and ED Physician, [OChem or BioChem Prof.]
No clinical research
Narrative: Was on the pre-medical path and ran head-on into OChem w/o the required drive or plan, took it as a sign to move to something new and settled on the law. I did about 1 year of law and decided I wasn’t that thrilled but decided to have fun and stick it out. I did well enough to become a federal attorney (make about 100K), but don’t feel “it”, I also struggle with the isolation of the practice of law.
I expect that the biggest question admissions committees will have (if they look at my app lol) is why medicine and not law. I find it difficult to express, but I would like to make a decent living, provide a tangible impact, and live in my hometown. To make that tangible impact in law, I’m looking at legal aid or prosecution/public defense, but these pay terribly where I am. I need to stay in my hometown because my mother is disabled and needs assistance. My plan with medical school to start would be to go IM/FM, possibly rural.
My city *just* opened up a new DO school and I know a doctor who I trust and scribed for that I plan on talking to about that option. My best-case scenario would be to get into my state MD school (I would Early Decision) which has a campus in my town.
I’ll be 33 by the start of school in Fall of 2027, if I strike out at the DO and MD schools in my city, I’d continue working as an attorney and re-apply the next year. I should probably just say it would be MD at KU or the new KansasCOM DO program.
I would appreciate a gauge of the effect of my military/law background and would appreciate whatever advice is available to strengthen the application. I am very aware of finances, have considered the cost, and am willing to accept it.
Kansas
White Male
Local Undergrad (Philosophy): cGPA 3.48 sGPA 2.96 -- Four undergraduate institutions over six years, worked full-time+ the whole time, ultimately received degree while deployed to the Middle East
Graduate (Law): 3.46 GPA from Notre Dame (About the median gpa)
Local Postbacc (DIY): 4.0 (20 credits science (OChem II, Phys I/II, Biochem) so raise sGPA to 3.27ish)
MCAT: I figure I’ll be able to do okay at least considering my LSAT and Bar Exam scores. I think 500-510 is possible. Plan to take before/by Spring 2026.
400 hours as a scribe from 2019
Going to get more shadowing time over my days off in ED/Pathology/Surgery
Leadership/Extracurriculars:
12 years in Air National Guard (Enlisted) leading and managing teams of five to twenty. 1 year as a Judge Advocate (Officer).
Pro-Bono time volunteering my legal services for Domestic Violence Shelter in town.
LOR: Flight doctor from military, Commander from military, Head of the hospital ED Physician’s Union, Faculty member at city’s new DO school and ED Physician, [OChem or BioChem Prof.]
No clinical research
Narrative: Was on the pre-medical path and ran head-on into OChem w/o the required drive or plan, took it as a sign to move to something new and settled on the law. I did about 1 year of law and decided I wasn’t that thrilled but decided to have fun and stick it out. I did well enough to become a federal attorney (make about 100K), but don’t feel “it”, I also struggle with the isolation of the practice of law.
I expect that the biggest question admissions committees will have (if they look at my app lol) is why medicine and not law. I find it difficult to express, but I would like to make a decent living, provide a tangible impact, and live in my hometown. To make that tangible impact in law, I’m looking at legal aid or prosecution/public defense, but these pay terribly where I am. I need to stay in my hometown because my mother is disabled and needs assistance. My plan with medical school to start would be to go IM/FM, possibly rural.
My city *just* opened up a new DO school and I know a doctor who I trust and scribed for that I plan on talking to about that option. My best-case scenario would be to get into my state MD school (I would Early Decision) which has a campus in my town.
I’ll be 33 by the start of school in Fall of 2027, if I strike out at the DO and MD schools in my city, I’d continue working as an attorney and re-apply the next year. I should probably just say it would be MD at KU or the new KansasCOM DO program.
I would appreciate a gauge of the effect of my military/law background and would appreciate whatever advice is available to strengthen the application. I am very aware of finances, have considered the cost, and am willing to accept it.
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