WAMC: 3.4/3.28 517 | Need help with school list

[Princeton Medical Student]

cGPA: 3.4
sGPA: 3.28
MCAT: 517
Major: Computer science
UGrad: Expensive NYC one
State: NJ
Activities:

• 3000+ hours volunteering as EMT
• 300+ hours paid employment as EMT
• 100+ hours research across two labs. No pubs, but can talk about both pretty extensively.
• 100+ hours working as an ESL tutor. Will also start volunteering doing the same thing before the app cycle starts.
• ~10 hours online shadowing

My hope is to get into a DO school, but I received FAP so I intend to apply to 20 MD schools in hopes of maybe getting a bit lucky. Would really LOVE help with school list.
MD list thus far:

1. Temple
2. Loyola
3. NYMC
4. Tulane
5. Wake Forest
6. VTech
7. Cooper
8. Hackensack
9. RWJMS
10. NJMS
11. Qunnipiac
12. Thomas Jefferson
13. UMiami
14. UIC
15. Penn State
16. Geisinger
17. Drexel
18. St. Louis
19. Virginia Commonwealth
20. Rush

DO list:

1. PCOM
2. NYITCOM
3. Rowan
4. AT Still
5. DMUCOM
6. CCOM
7. KCU
8. Nova
9. VCOM
10. UNTHSC
11. UNECOM
12. PacNW
13. Western
14. Western-OR
15. LECOM (Erie only)
16. LMU-DCOM

I am looking at potentially adding more MD schools past the 20 school FAP limit, and of course need feedback on the list so far. Thanks in advance!

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[Banco]

Your activities are great and MCAT is excellent. GPA is the weak link for MD - if your GPA falls below the 10th percentile for those schools maybe look for some where you are still in range. I think your best bet for MD is your NJ schools.

Overall the MD list looks appropriate. UIC and Penn State might be low yield. You could also look into Albany, MCW, Wayne State, Oakland, Princeton Med.

 

[deleted555445]

Have you considered doing a post-bacc? I have a similarly low GPA/high MCAT app, but I did ~40 credits of post-bacc (at night, while working) to get my GPA up. Even though its still low, I spoke with a couple of competitive schools and they said my good post-bacc + high MCAT gave them no concerns about academics. You would probably open up your options a bit more.

 

[Princeton Medical Student]

Have you considered doing a post-bacc? I have a similarly low GPA/high MCAT app, but I did ~40 credits of post-bacc (at night, while working) to get my GPA up. Even though its still low, I spoke with a couple of competitive schools and they said my good post-bacc + high MCAT gave them no concerns about academics. You would probably open up your options a bit more.

To be perfectly honest I am a bit too inpatient for it and feel confident enough in having a decent shot at DO at this point. Ill already be at two gap years by the time I apply with an extra 7 credit tiiiny post bacc.

 

[Faha]

Remove VTech, UIC and Miami. You could add these schools:
TCU-UNT
NOVA MD
George Washington
Vermont
Western Michigan
Medical College Wisconsin

 

[Princeton Medical Student]

Remove VTech, UIC and Miami. You could add these schools:
TCU-UNT
NOVA MD
George Washington
Vermont
Western Michigan
Medical College Wisconsin

Out of curiosity, why remove those schools?

 

[Faha]

UIC and Miami give preference to their own state residents and accept few non residents with your GPA and no connection to the state. VTech has a small class with a regional preference .

 

[deleted555445]

UIC and Miami give preference to their own state residents and accept few non residents with your GPA and no connection to the state. VTech has a small class with a regional preference .

not to derail this, but is that true about Miami? I thought it was a private university, it looks like 45% of their class is from out of state.

 

[Faha]

not to derail this, but is that true about Miami? I thought it was a private university, it looks like 45% of their class is from out of state.

They have instate preference which is why 55% are instate.

 

[Ms Procrastinator]

Good luck with your app cycle! @Princeton Medical Student