MD & DO WAMC and School List Help - TX resident, ORM, 3.76 GPA 504 MCAT

[charlixcx]

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TMDSAS reapplicant
first-time applicant for AMCAS and AACOMAS

1. GPA: sGPA 3.6X cGPA 3.7X (TMDSAS)

• upwards trend

2. MCAT

• mid 500s after retake

3. TX resident

• ties to MS and CA

4. ORM, Asian
5. T50 state school

• currently taking my second gap year
• biology major, minor in foreign (heritage) language

6. Clinical experience

• Volunteer -- 100 hrs
  • Covid vaccine clinics
  • hospital volunteering
• Paid -- 1700+ hrs
  • optometric technician (leadership: promoted to team lead)
  • medical assistant
    • 2 DO LORs from ma job

7. Research experience

• 150 hrs semester research course analyzing society and media, paper received high marks, no pubs
  • LOR from research prof

8. Shadowing experience

• 150+ hrs shadowing across 3 specialties
  • 1 DO LOR

9. Non-clinical volunteering -- 300+ hrs combined

• ESL tutor for special needs immigrant student
• various volunteering experiences through college orgs, mostly service projects/fundraisers benefiting local community (+leadership)
• peer mentor for underclassmen through college pre-med org (+leadership)
• volunteer notetaker for university disability services
• tutor for adult education courses at public library

10. Other extracurricular activities

• bioethics seminar org
• pre-med org
• STEM org for lgbt students
• asian pacific islander first year mentorship program
• play two instruments
  • active member of regional society for one instrument
• running, lifting

11. Relevant honors or awards

• Dean’s list in undergrad
• community college honor roll
• PBK member
• graduated magna cum laude

Anything else not listed you think might be important

• LORs from 2 science profs, 2 non-science profs, 3 DOs (worked for/shadowed)
• spanish as third language
• TMDSAS submitted late May and verified early June, AMCAS/AACOMAS submitted mid-June
  • already took CASPER and PREview
• 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 understand i’m doa for many md schools on account of being a TX resident + low MCAT ORM. thus, i'm asking for suggestions for OOS MDs where my service/clinical experiences and ECs would make me a competitive applicant despite my lower MCAT score.

i also need suggestions for more DO schools

• 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.

thank you!

 

[Faha]

You could add these DO schools to your application:
OSU-COM
UIWSOM
ATSU-KCOM
KCU-COM
AZCOM
DMU-COM
MU-COM
CUSOM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
CHSU-COM
TUCOM-CA
WESTERN
PCOM

 

[ahnonemoose]

This is from TMDSAS published data. It does not support a significant bias against reapplicants.

Data Reports

For 2024

6,472 applicants
4,510 received interviews
2,595 were accepted
2,230 matriculated – some went out of state, some changed their minds

2595/6472 = 40% acceptance rate – this number is misleadingly deflated

1,366 were reapplicants
1,005 interviewed
504 accepted
456 matriculated

504/1366 = 37% acceptance rate for reapplicants

In other words, the acceptance rate for first-time applicants is 2595-504/6472-1366 = 41%

The overall percentage success rate is 63% over two attempts, assuming the events are independent. They’re not, so the true percentage success rate of a reapplicant is between 37% and 63%. If there is a failure on the first attempt, do something to make the second attempt different, make it an independent event. Get a higher MCAT score, get more healthcare hours, get admitted to a special master’s program obtaining a master of medical science or similar degree. Graduates of such programs have an 80% acceptance rate.

Anecdotally, I received no TMDSAS interviews last cycle. I've already had one this cycle with the same grades and MCAT.