charlixcx
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i am a TMDSAS reapplicant, last year i submitted TMDSAS primary and a few secondaries before realizing how woefully unprepared I was for 2025 cycle. i understand this may cause texas adcoms to view me unfavorably. i decided to apply for 2026 cycle after improving in various categories, able to show significant growth since 2025. spent past year demonstrating commitment to medicine through various activities.
first-time applicant for AMCAS and AACOMAS
1. GPA: sGPA 3.67 cGPA 3.76 (TMDSAS)
5. T50 state school
School List
i also need suggestions for more DO schools; i'm unsure of how competitive i am so i don't know what determiners to use to add schools to my list.
first-time applicant for AMCAS and AACOMAS
1. GPA: sGPA 3.67 cGPA 3.76 (TMDSAS)
- zigzag upwards trend, last semester 4.0
- not AMCAS or AACOMAS verified yet
- 500 (123/125/124/128)
- 503 (125/125/124/129)
- 504 (124/127/126/127)
- FL scores ranged from high 50X to low 510s, definitely have test anxiety
- ties to Mississippi (born there) and California (raised in NorCal)
5. T50 state school
- graduated 1 yr early, taken 2 gap years
- biology major, minor in foreign (heritage) language
- Volunteer
- 8 hrs serving as interpreter at vaccination event helping local immigrant population get Covid vaccine
- 45 hrs hospital volunteering (summer program, will have around 75 by august 2025)
- Paid
- 500+ hrs optometric technician (leadership: promoted to team lead)
- 1200+ hrs medical assistant in primary care
- 2 DO LORs from ma job
- 150 hrs semester research course doing capstone project analyzing specific area of foreign country's society and media, paper received high marks, no pubs
- LOR from research prof
- 150+ hrs shadowing urgent care physician
- 1 DO LOR
- 15 hrs watching triage/procedures in ED while volunteering (ER docs invited us to see so kinda informal shadowing)
- 90+ hrs ESL tutor for special needs elementary school student who recently immigrated from asia
- 40 hrs volunteering through various college orgs, mostly service projects/fundraisers benefiting local community (served as volunteer lead for 2 yrs)
- 30+ hrs as peer mentor for underclassmen through college pre-med org (leadership)
- 30 hrs as peer notetaker for university disability services
- 100+ hrs as public library volunteer (tutor for adult ESL and citizenship courses and reshelving books)
- 1 yr member of bioethics seminar org
- 2 yr member of pre-med org
- 2 yr member of STEM org for lgbt students
- 20 hrs asian pacific islander first year mentorship program
- play two instruments and won several awards in competition, all before or during hs
- current member of regional society for one instrument
- love to run, done 5ks and currently training for longer races
- 1 semester Dean’s list
- honor roll at community college (from dual credit and summer classes)
- member of Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society
- graduated magna cum laude
- interested in military medicine, close family member served and was an inspiration to me growing up. applying for military HPSP and USUHS.
- LORs from 2 science profs, 2 non-science profs, 3 DOs (worked for/shadowed)
- fluent in asian language (spoken at home, was my first language until starting kinder, and studied it in college), able to communicate in spanish at intermediate-advanced level (been learning since early teens)
- TMDSAS submitted mid-late May and verified early June, AMCAS/AACOMAS submitted mid-June still unverified
- already took CASPER and PREview, submitted all transcripts and LORs
- applying MD and DO -- plan to apply broadly for DO and MDs where my stats won't automatically screen me out
School List
- all TMDSAS schools
- Baylor
- UTSA Long SOM
- UT Health McGovern
- SHSUCOM
- TTU Foster El Paso
- TTUHSC Lubbock
- UH Fertitta COM
- UNTHSC TCOM
- UT Dell
- UTMB
- UTRGV
- UTSW
- UT Tyler
- AMCAS
- USUHS
- Alice Walton
- AACOMAS
- AT Still (SOMA and KCOM)
- NYITCOM
- UIWSOM
- WCUCOM
i also need suggestions for more DO schools; i'm unsure of how competitive i am so i don't know what determiners to use to add schools to my list.
- are my ties to CA strong enough to consider applying to CHSU and Touro CA? grew up in Sacramento suburb/foothills of Sierra Nevada
- please let me know of schools with heavy regional bias that i shouldn't consider applying to because 1) i wouldn't be competitive, 2) save money on application/secondary fees.
