Hi guys! I hope everyone is staying safe during all this madness. My question is whether or not you guys think I will be competitive this cycle at MD Schools. Im not very happy about my GPA. Also I am a white guy.
GPA: I finished up undergrad at UVA with a total gpa of 3.53 and a science gpa 3.46, slight upward trend, but that took a little hit my last semester due to family troubles.
MCAT: 520
Volunteering: ~ 290 of volunteering medical field (200 of which in a leadership role). 220 hours of non-clinical volunteering.
Clinical experience: 1.5 years of scribing full time, only 40 hours shadowing.
Research: No basic science research. 480 hours of working as a reserach assistant in a psych lab. 470 hours as a clinical research intern with the UVa school of medicine.
LOR: I have a very solid LORs from a physician I scribed for. Also one solid one from a biology professor, and non science professor. I had a second science professor write a letter, but she didn't know me that well so I can't say for sure its very compelling.
Here is the list of schools I applied to. I have already receiived and submitted secondaries to 19 of them.
UVa, VCU, EVMS, VT Carillion
Albany Medical College,
Rosalind Franklin
Creighton University school of medicine
Medical college of Wisconsin
Penn State
Wake Forest
Quinnipiac
Vermont
Indiana
Emory
Dartmouth
Western Michigan
Tufts
Pittsburgh
Michigan
West Virginia
Colorado
Ohio state
Wisconsin
Hofstra
Tulane
Overall I feel like my GPA is definitely not ideal, and the lack of basic research/publications isn’t great. But yeah, thanks for reading this and best of luck to everybody!
GPA: I finished up undergrad at UVA with a total gpa of 3.53 and a science gpa 3.46, slight upward trend, but that took a little hit my last semester due to family troubles.
MCAT: 520
Volunteering: ~ 290 of volunteering medical field (200 of which in a leadership role). 220 hours of non-clinical volunteering.
Clinical experience: 1.5 years of scribing full time, only 40 hours shadowing.
Research: No basic science research. 480 hours of working as a reserach assistant in a psych lab. 470 hours as a clinical research intern with the UVa school of medicine.
LOR: I have a very solid LORs from a physician I scribed for. Also one solid one from a biology professor, and non science professor. I had a second science professor write a letter, but she didn't know me that well so I can't say for sure its very compelling.
Here is the list of schools I applied to. I have already receiived and submitted secondaries to 19 of them.
UVa, VCU, EVMS, VT Carillion
Albany Medical College,
Rosalind Franklin
Creighton University school of medicine
Medical college of Wisconsin
Penn State
Wake Forest
Quinnipiac
Vermont
Indiana
Emory
Dartmouth
Western Michigan
Tufts
Pittsburgh
Michigan
West Virginia
Colorado
Ohio state
Wisconsin
Hofstra
Tulane
Overall I feel like my GPA is definitely not ideal, and the lack of basic research/publications isn’t great. But yeah, thanks for reading this and best of luck to everybody!
