MD & DO WAMC 3.4/516 (3.96 post bacc)

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LittleBitNeuro

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Wa resident, first gen, ORM, nontrad
Overall GPA 3.4
Science GPA 3.85
Post bacc GPA 3.96
MCAT 516

Paid clinical
NICU RN 6100 hours
ICU RN 9900 hours

Volunteer clinical
100 hours free clinic

Volunteer non clinical
150 hours harm reduction
1620 hours food bank (over 8 years)

Research
200 hours ICU research project
Poster presentation of above project

Shadowing
16 hours pulmonologist clinic

Other stuff
Chair of Unit based staffing committee
Unit based Professional practice committee
Hospital wide Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, Accessibility council
Critical Care Nursing Certification

My advisor is telling me I need to get to at least 13 activities (with all of the committees being lumped into one). I’m hesitant to do box checking activities which would mean at this point I would need to do another gap year?
 
You are fine to apply in June. I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Washington
Washington State
UMass
Boston University
Tufts
Dartmouth
Brown
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
New York Medical College
Hofstra
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
Hackensack
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Georgetown
George Washington
Wake Forest
Emory
Miami
USF Morsani
Tulane
Oakland Beaumont
Western Michigan
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Loyola
St. Louis
Creighton
Kaiser
 
You are fine to apply in June. I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Washington
Washington State
UMass
Boston University
Tufts
Dartmouth
Brown
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
New York Medical College
Hofstra
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
Hackensack
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Georgetown
George Washington
Wake Forest
Emory
Miami
USF Morsani
Tulane
Oakland Beaumont
Western Michigan
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Loyola
St. Louis
Creighton
Kaiser
Thank you! A lot of these schools have average GPAs far far above 3.4. Do you think the post bacc work is enough to make up for it? (15 years apart)