MD & DO WAMC 3.73 cGPA/507 MCAT, immigrant background FL resident

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Applying summer 2024 cycle, graduating Spring 2024, so technically Non-trad? (correct me if I'm wrong)

GENERAL (GPA is projected for what I think it will be at when I graduate)

• Bio: 23M ORM (immigrant background though, Russian+Asian, Russian as first language)
• Major: Pre-health major at a top 20 public university
• State: FL
• cGPA/sGPA: 3.73/3.64 (cGPA of 3.97 for last 58 credits, 4.00 for last 45)
• MCAT: 507 (128/125/126/128)

EXTRACURRICULARS: (estimations of what I will have completed by the time I apply)

• Clinical Paid Experience: 850 hours total between a personal care assistant position for a quadriplegic patient and a radiology tech aide position at the ER of local hospital
• Research: 500 hours researching at a physics laboratory; research has to do with nanoimaging of various hard crystals; 1 poster presentation at an annual symposium and no publications
• Clinical Volunteering: 150 hours volunteering at hospice
• Non-Clinical Volunteering: 300 hours volunteering total between a local food bank and being a driver for Meals on Wheels.
• Shadowing: at least 50 hours between at least two specialties (currently have 32 hours with family medicine, working on adding more)
• Leadership: None
• Non-Clinical Paid Work: 73 hours being a videographer for my school's football team for a season and 147 hours being an administrative assistant at a geriatrics clinic.
• Hobbies:
  • Basketball: Played my entire life growing up competitively so 10,000+ hours easily, play intramural at my school currently.
  • Chess: Part of the chess club, play for fun and go to some tournaments (only 1300 elo though on chess com )

LORs:

• 2 science professors
• 1 non-science professor
• 1 from my PI
• 1 from the quadriplegic patient that I work (is this a bad idea? he's written some for past people that have worked for him and they've gotten into places, figured it was somewhat unique but not sure if it crosses any lines?)
• 1 from an osteopathic physician I shadowed

SCHOOL LIST (40 schools, 30 MD and 10 DO, picked based off location, competitiveness, OOS friendliness, and some other factors)
MD (Took all of my IS schools plus 22 OOS schools that had at least 40% of their matriculants last cycle from OOS without regional preference + my MCAT at or above their 10th percentile for matriculated students)

IS:
FSU
FIU
FAU
Nova (MD)
UCF (is it even worth applying with my stats)
Miami Miller ^^^^^^^
UF ^^^^^^^^
USF Morsani ^^^^^^^^^^^^

OOS:
Quinnipiac
George Washington (too service-oriented for me?)
Georgetown ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Rush (almost surely don't have enough hours for this one but you guys tell me)
Loyola Stritch ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Rosalind Franklin
Tulane
Oakland Beaumont
Saint Louis University SOM
Wake Forest
Albany
Ohio State (little bit of a reach I know)
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
U of South Carolina - Greenville (everyone says they're not OOS friendly but over 40% of their class was OOS and they took a lot from the southern region)
TCU
Virginia Tech
Eastern Virginia
Vermont
MC Wisconsin
West Virginia

DO (Similarly, took all of my IS schools even though 2 are new and not even opened yet, and 6 OOS schools that I did research on and liked the most)

IS:
Lake Erie COM-Bradenton
Nova SUCOM
Burrell COM-FL
Orlando COM

OOS:
Des Moines UCOM
Kansas City UCOM-KC
Philadelphia COM
Touro University Nevada COM
TouroCOM-Harlem
Rocky Vista UCOM-CO

Please be honest with me and give me advice! I appreciate all and any reply

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You have a good DO list. I suggest these MD schools with your stats:
Florida State
U Florida
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Central Florida
NOVA MD
Miami
Tulane
TCU
Creighton
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Georgetown
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Hackensack
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Any new schools that open in 2024 (there may be several)