WAMC CA ORM 3.2 GPA (rising trend) 511 MCAT (leadership focused application)

[HopefulDoc71500]

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[Faha]

I suggest these MD schools with your stats:
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
Drexel
Temple
George Washington
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
Belmont
Tulane
TCU
Creighton
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
California University
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
UC Davis
UC Irvine
Alice Walton (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)
You could add UIWSOM, WCU-COM, ACOM and LMU-DCOM to your DO list.

 

[Goro]

For starters, delete OrlandoCOM. TOO new. Delete SOMA, and the for profit BCOM as well.

Replace with
Sam Houston
PacNW
TUNCOM

 

[Goro]

Agree with Faha"s MD list

 

[Mr.Smile12]

If leadership is your angle, have you been in contact with anyone involved with VAMA? Their website seems to be dormant since 2020, and I'm not sure if they are still active as suggested from their website. Otherwise, have you connected with APAMSA student officers at the schools on your list?

ADDED: Another group that is more active is VAMP.

California programs may consider Vietnamese at least as "not overrepresented" and could be URM if that matters.

Most Philly health providers cannot speak Vietnamese. A local pharmacist is trying to change that through a stroke education program

Viet-Capacity has reached over 800 Vietnamese-speaking Philly residents with culturally tailored education around cardiovascular disease.

whyy.org

Find your mission fit with schools, especially those with more exposure to underserved Asian communities and will put more weight on your last 30-60 credit hours. Your application is strong.

 

[HopefulDoc71500]

If leadership is your angle, have you been in contact with anyone involved with VAMA? Their website seems to be dormant since 2020, and I'm not sure if they are still active as suggested from their website. Otherwise, have you connected with APAMSA student officers at the schools on your list?

ADDED: Another group that is more active is VAMP.

California programs may consider Vietnamese at least as "not overrepresented" and could be URM if that matters.

Most Philly health providers cannot speak Vietnamese. A local pharmacist is trying to change that through a stroke education program

Viet-Capacity has reached over 800 Vietnamese-speaking Philly residents with culturally tailored education around cardiovascular disease.

whyy.org

Find your mission fit with schools, especially those with more exposure to underserved Asian communities and will put more weight on your last 30-60 credit hours. Your application is strong.

I actually did reach out to VAMA multiple times in 2021 because I was on the committee in charge of reaching out to organizations to speak and participate in workshops at our annual conference. Did not get a single response from them at all so I'm assuming it's essentially defunct/inactive.

I did not reach out to VAMP since they're located in Florida. But I do have some FL schools I want to attend (also cause family live there) and if I matriculate there I would want to inquire more about their membership!

Would you recommend UCSF? That's about a reach as it can get with my stats but I heard they like reinvention and consider Vietnamese as URM? The only other schools I could think of would be Houston/Dallas area because of the Vietnamese community there

 

[HopefulDoc71500]

For starters, delete OrlandoCOM. TOO new. Delete SOMA, and the for profit BCOM as well.

Replace with
Sam Houston
PacNW
TUNCOM

Reading the post about SOMA just made me shiver thinking about third year. Duly noted and removed. Is BCOM that egregious as well?

Sam Houston was already on my list on TMDSAS! I only left out schools that had a focus on rural medicine like Tyler, Lubbock, and RGV because their mission won't fit me. PacNW and TUNCOM added

Does the rest of my DO list look good?

 

[HopefulDoc71500]

I suggest these MD schools with your stats:
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
Drexel
Temple
George Washington
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
Belmont
Tulane
TCU
Creighton
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
California University
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
UC Davis
UC Irvine
Alice Walton (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)
You could add UIWSOM, WCU-COM, ACOM and LMU-DCOM to your DO list.

Would you say Keck, Vanderbilt, and UNLV are reaches as well? I'm nervous about Belmont since they're absolutely brand new.

 

[Faha]

Would you say Keck, Vanderbilt, and UNLV are reaches as well? I'm nervous about Belmont since they're absolutely brand new.

Those schools are unrealistic with your stats.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Would you recommend UCSF? That's about a reach as it can get with my stats but I heard they like reinvention and consider Vietnamese as URM? The only other schools I could think of would be Houston/Dallas area because of the Vietnamese community there

They do, but I'm discouraged with your stats.

 

[Goro]

Reading the post about SOMA just made me shiver thinking about third year. Duly noted and removed. Is BCOM that egregious as well?

Sam Houston was already on my list on TMDSAS! I only left out schools that had a focus on rural medicine like Tyler, Lubbock, and RGV because their mission won't fit me. PacNW and TUNCOM added

Does the rest of my DO list look good?

Yes indeed