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Could you post a formatted WAMC profile?
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Mr.Smile12 said:
Could you post a formatted WAMC profile?
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Thread '*~*~*~*IMPORTANT: How to Format Your WAMC Thread for Optimal Results and More!!*~*~*~*'

Hello, and welcome to the What Are My Chances (WAMC) forum.

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  • Post threads about your chances of acceptance to MD and/or DO schools
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  • Determine how to strengthen your current application
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I suggest these schools with your stats:
All 4 SUNYs
Albany
New York Medical College
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Howard
Meharry
Morehouse
Charles Drew
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
Methodist (when it opens)
NOVA MD
Miami
Belmont
Alice Walton
Tulane
TCU
Roseman
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Indiana
Oakland Beaumont
 
Faha said:
I suggest these schools with your stats:
All 4 SUNYs
Albany
New York Medical College
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Howard
Meharry
Morehouse
Charles Drew
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
Methodist (when it opens)
NOVA MD
Miami
Belmont
Alice Walton
Tulane
TCU
Roseman
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Indiana
Oakland Beaumont
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thanks. but since im only half urm will i be not seen as urm esp for the hbcu
 
Faha said:
You may be seen as URM for those schools and your stats are within range for those schools.
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so is this like one of those things that is just luck on whether i am seen as urm or not
 
Faha said:
Yes. It depends on who reviews your application but you should mention your connections to the Black community.
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Bruh. Thats so stupid. What would be the case if someone was like 75% black 25% asian. Would it still be like that
 
timothy786 said:
Bruh. Thats so stupid. What would be the case if someone was like 75% black 25% asian. Would it still be like that
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It's how you identify as a member of that culture, not the proportion of blood alleles. It's what the SCOTUS implied.

You still haven't addressed my call for details to discern if this is really the case. I get the impression you're trying to game being URM to your favor in the admissions process since being ORM is perceived as a negative to you. Like you're ashamed of it??
 
Mr.Smile12 said:
It's how you identify as a member of that culture, not the proportion of blood alleles. It's what the SCOTUS implied.

You still haven't addressed my call for details to discern if this is really the case. I get the impression you're trying to game being URM to your favor in the admissions process since being ORM is perceived as a negative to you. Like you're ashamed of it??
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i am not ashamed of being orm. i just think how all my commitment to helping the black community and all my service hours that were dedicated to the community will all be looked over since im not truly fully "black" and then its up to the admissions committee who can easily just clump me up as asian and throw my application to the side. Being black has come with huge disadvantages in life to me so if for once i can finally benefit from it ofc i want to. i am scared i wont be able to get into med school as i am already in a gap year and looking at the mcat score of multiple ethnicities vs pure black being much higher was the reason i am so afraid now
 
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Faha said:
I suggest these schools with your stats:
All 4 SUNYs
Albany
New York Medical College
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Howard
Meharry
Morehouse
Charles Drew
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
Methodist (when it opens)
NOVA MD
Miami
Belmont
Alice Walton
Tulane
TCU
Roseman
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Indiana
Oakland Beaumont
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do you have any other schools i should add? also should i add einstein or is that a huge stretch
 
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Faha said:
Einstein is unrealistic and is much more competitive now with free tuition. You could add some DO schools such as Touro-NY, NYITCOM, LECOM and PCOM.
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Yes, i will ofc add do with my mcat. i meant like any md schoools like universit of washington, since i have fam there and visit a lot or does that not count
 
timothy786 said:
i am not ashamed of being orm. i just think how all my commitment to helping the black community and all my service hours that were dedicated to the community will all be looked over since im not truly fully "black" and then its up to the admissions committee who can easily just clump me up as asian and throw my application to the side.
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Admissions committee? I'm more interested how the Black community looked at you helping them if they didn't consider you fully Black or Black enough. That response is far more insightful that a good adcom will appreciate.

timothy786 said:
Being black has come with huge disadvantages in life to me so if for once i can finally benefit from it ofc i want to. i am scared i wont be able to get into med school as i am already in a gap year and looking at the mcat score of multiple ethnicities vs pure black being much higher was the reason i am so afraid now
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Could you be more specific how it benefitted you? (You don't need to reply publicly here.)

UW is only friendly to applicants from the northwest. WSU generally favors residents interested in rural medicine.
 
timothy786 said:
i am not ashamed of being orm. i just think how all my commitment to helping the black community and all my service hours that were dedicated to the community will all be looked over since im not truly fully "black" and then its up to the admissions committee who can easily just clump me up as asian and throw my application to the side. Being black has come with huge disadvantages in life to me so if for once i can finally benefit from it ofc i want to. i am scared i wont be able to get into med school as i am already in a gap year and looking at the mcat score of multiple ethnicities vs pure black being much higher was the reason i am so afraid now
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You're not the first biracial person to apply to an HBCU and you won't be the last. You won't even be the first Asian (half or full). Adcoms won't pick on you because you're 'only' half-black, especially since your community service shows that you're committed to helping the black community.

If you think you'll benefit from time spent at an HBCU apply, if you don't then apply somewhere else.
 
Mr.Smile12 said:
Admissions committee? I'm more interested how the Black community looked at you helping them if they didn't consider you fully Black or Black enough. That response is far more insightful that a good adcom will appreciate.


Could you be more specific how it benefitted you? (You don't need to reply publicly here.)

UW is only friendly to applicants from the northwest. WSU generally favors residents interested in rural medicine.
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i mean every black person who i ever have dealt with has regarded me as family and black especially since my own father teaches in a black college himself and for the first few years in elementary school i myself grew up in a black neighborhood. By benefit i meant like the unintentional edge given to black/urm community that technincally isnt allowed anymore but due to other variables they have mcats in my ballpark
Faha said:
Yes. It depends on who reviews your application but you should mention your connections to the Black community.
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Any more suggestions on md schools? I know some want to have connections to the state and i have family in almost all states and have travled to all if that helps. Also do you think i have a shot to get into any 1 of these
 
I still like Faha's list. You should add DO schools to cover your bases with your low MCAT. The usual suspects of NYCOM, PCOM, and LECOM come to mind for me.

I also have had Asian advisees who were accepted to HBCU medical schools. If you can speak about the community you lived in and its specific needs, then you may have a shot at them and any schools that may align with your purpose.
 
Why are you now saying you’re 1/2 Black and 1/2 Asian when in your other thread you called yourself Asian and said your dad is only “partly sheedi”? That wouldn’t put you at 1/2 Black. You can put whatever you like on your application and that theoretically may give you a chance at an interview, but again, the admissions committee will see through someone trying to game the system.
 
CoconutDreams said:
Why are you now saying you’re 1/2 Black and 1/2 Asian when in your other thread you called yourself Asian and said your dad is only “partly sheedi”? That wouldn’t put you at 1/2 Black. You can put whatever you like on your application and that theoretically may give you a chance at an interview, but again, the admissions committee will see through someone trying to game the system.
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I didnt properly describe the situation maybe cz im typing while in my job. My father is black, my grandparents from his side had to flee africa and ended up in asia where my father met my mother and my mother is partly sheedi partlu asian. But since sheedi is a tribe of black ppl from hundreds of years ago i dont think that counts as black. My father himself is also partly sheedi. I think im describing it horribly tho.
 
Your story is inconsistent and it’s still not making sense. Get it together before you try to explain anything to an admissions committee.
 
In the end, you need to stand on your identity and culture. Your Shidi background may not fit what most US think about "Black" because we only know about the African diaspora to the US (through the Caribbean). You can't try to leverage being an applicant "unicorn" to argue why you should be admitted, which is an impression you are giving. Given your numbers and your self-identity, the school list Faha lists is reasonable. I'm sure you may have been subjected to skepticism about your "Blackness" or "Asianness." Have you attended any diversity workshops or courses where you can safely unpack these responses?
 
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