WAMC at an MD school? 3.79 506

[user0011]

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1. 3.80 GPA (sGPA 3.62). Master’s GPA is 3.95
2. 506 MCAT: 126,125,127,128 (taken once before with a score of 505)
3. From California
4. Half white and half asian (immigrant father)
5. I went to a top 3 undergrad university and am also working on a master’s degree from there over my gap year.
6. ~225 clinical hours at local children’s hospital, ~250 in local VA for a total of 475 hours
7. 3 years of moderate research between two labs, around 1,000 total hours if I had to guess. We’re currently in revision for a publication in a big journal, but I wouldn’t be anywhere near the first author. 2 publications where I’m not the first author either.
8. 125 shadowing hours total.
9. 100 hours of Non-clinical volunteering
10. 450 hours on club sports team, 250 tutoring hours, 625 hours non-clinical employment
11. Student paper award for a research publication
12. 1,500 anticipated hours working as an EMT over my gap year. I don’t think it matters much but I got a 9 on PREview.

Odds I get into one? Applying very broadly, and to every California school:

U of Alabama School of Medicine

U of Arkansas

U of Arizona - Tucson

UC Riverside

Loma Linda

UC Davis

UCLA

California Northstate

UCSD

California University of Science and Medicine

UC Irvine

Kaiser

USC

UCSF

Stanford

George Washington University

Georgetown

Florida State

Florida International Herbert Wertheim

U of Miami Miller

U of Hawaii John A Burns

Southern Illinois

Rush University

Loyola Chicago Stritch

U of Kentucky

U of Louisville

Louisiana State - Shreveport

Louisiana State - New Orleans

Tulane

Central Michigan

Michigan State

Wake Forest

U of Nevada Reno

U of Nevada Las Vegas

Albany Medical College

SUNY - Upstate

SUNY - Downstate

Oregon Health & Science University SOM

Penn State

Temple University Lewis Katz

Drexel

Meharry Medical College

East Tennessee

U of Tennessee

U of Utah

Medical College of Wisconsin

U of Wisconsin

 

[candbgirl]

Your nonclinical volunteer hours are very low. You should take Loyola and Rush off your list. They expect and get applicants with hundreds if not thousands of hours of service oriented volunteering. ( What did you do for those 100 hours?)
Southern Illinois is quite specific in where they draw their students from. As a Cali resident you most likely don’t fit their focus.
You have tons of OOS schools on your list. Are they friendly to OOS applicants?
With 2 lower MCAT scores and almost identical, you might want to add some DO schools to your list. BUT only if you will go if they are your only acceptance(s).

 

[DoneDone3451]

After reviewing your school list, I would strongly encourage you to purchase the MSAR and take a closer look at which schools are OOS-friendly from your list. I can count quite a few who may not even glance at your application if you don't have ties to the state.

Moreover, I would suggest immediately removing the following schools from your list:
Utah
Southern Illinois
Central Michigan
Hawaii
Oregon Health Science
UNLV
Nevada Reno
Kentucky
Louisville
Both LSU's
Florida State
Arizona
Arkansas
Alabama

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Agreeing with above.

Your chances are not determined from hours alone, as if one can calculate them. Mission fit is critical, especially among the UC schools. We need more details about your purpose as a physician and why you have pivoted from your master's degree.

Mission fit is essential with OOS chances. In addition to the above, you need to remove Hawaii. Meharry is an HBCU and looks for historically underrepresented students. Cal Northstate has been under provisional accreditation for 10 years (much longer than 5 years). East Tennessee and Central Michigan will probably give you culture shock.

With a 505/506 MCAT, your list must include DO schools where your chances are much better.

 

[Faha]

What is the breakdown of your 100 hours of non clinical volunteering?

 

[user0011]

What is the breakdown of your 100 hours of non clinical volunteering?

Mostly surrounding awareness initiatives for the Hepatitis B virus, spending time in the community helping connect immigrants to the resources they need to get tested/vaccinated. I also taught a few classes to high schoolers about the Hepatitis B virus and liver cancer in general.

 

[Faha]

Mostly surrounding awareness initiatives for the Hepatitis B virus, spending time in the community helping connect immigrants to the resources they need to get tested/vaccinated. I also taught a few classes to high schoolers about the Hepatitis B virus and liver cancer in general.

Many MD schools screen at 150 hours for clinical volunteering so your chances for interviews are limited. I suggest these schools with your stats:
California University
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
Roseman
TCU
Alice Walton
Methodist (when it opens)
Ponce (St. Louis)
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Drexel
Temple
Penn State
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Your best chances are at DO schools and I suggest these:
WESTERN
TUCOM-CA
CHSU-COM
TUNCOM
AZCOM
UIWSOM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
DMU-COM
MU-COM
CUSOM
WVSOM
NYITCOM
PCOM (all schools)
LECOM (all schools)
Touro-NY

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Mostly surrounding awareness initiatives for the Hepatitis B virus, spending time in the community helping connect immigrants to the resources they need to get tested/vaccinated. I also taught a few classes to high schoolers about the Hepatitis B virus and liver cancer in general.

This is rather clinic-adjacent regarding health promotion and education. You need more service orientation activities such as food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, legal support, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. Many schools might screen out applicants who do not have 150 hours in this category at submission.