WAMC CA ORM 3.6 509

[husky12345]

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1. cGPA: 3.57 and sGPA: 3.61 (Dual-Enrollment Classes in high school brought me down) -- upward trend ~3.7 undergraduate and 4.0 postbacc (DIY community college)
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. 505, 506, 509
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US) CA
4. Ethnicity and/or race -- South Asian (ORM)
5. Undergraduate institution or category -- small private school near Sacramento, CA
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   1. 800 hrs ophthalmic technician (paid)
   2. 400 hours clinical research coordinator (paid)
   3. 12 hours stem cell drive (volunteer)
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. 2050 hours in a lab where all of us researchers met remotely
      1. have multiple publications (~20)
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. 82 hours total across three specialties (24 hrs in ER med, 54 hrs in dermatology, 4 hrs in rheumatology
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. 1500+ hours volunteering at a special education classroom since high school
   2. 40 hours mentoring students at underserved schools
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. 1400 hours as a home health aide for a geriatric family friend, I lived with them in college and took care of them as their health was deteriorating -- listed as other in activities section
    2. 200 hours fundraising for the same organization I mentored with so we could buy school supplies for students in the underserved areas
    3. 125 hours as VP of NAMI club in undergraduate
    4. 125 hours as social media manager for another club in undergraduate
    5. 12 hours helping organize a health outreach overseas for transgender patients
    6. ~8 posters in undergraduate classes that I presented at university research days during undergraduate
11. Relevant honors or awards: N/A
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important
    1. submitted AMCAS primary early-July to a throwaway school that I got an II this past cycle (Belmont), still waiting on verification

 

[husky12345]

I also forgot to add, I currently live in a rural and underserved area, indicated on application. I filled out the disadvantaged essay, my LOR's are likely good and they are from my college (committee letter from 3 professors + faculty advisor), 2 from ophthalmic tech job, 2 physician LOR, LOR from lab, LOR from special day classroom

 

[Faha]

You are competitive for all DO schools with your stats and I suggest these:
WESTERN
TUCOM-CA
TUNCOM
AZCOM
ATSU-KCOM
KCU-COM
DMU-COM
CCOM
MU-COM
UIWSOM
CUSOM
WVSOM
PCOM
LECOM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
For MD schools I suggest these:
Belmont
NOVA MD
TCU
Creighton
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Alice Walton (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)

 

[MD_Maker]

I would aim primarily DO.

 

[husky12345]

For anyone that's going through this thread, these are the schools I applied to:

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Albany Medical College
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine at Belmont University
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
California Northstate University College of Medicine
Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
Medical College of Wisconsin
Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Tulane University School of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
Roseman University College of Medicine

• green = schools I got an II, post-II R from quinnipiac

 

[husky12345]

DO:

II: AZCOM, DMU, ICOM, NYITCOM NY, Touro CA, Western CA

A: AZCOM

WL: DMU, ICOM, NYITCOM, Touro CA, Western CA

ghosted from: NSU, PCOM PA

 

[husky12345]

DO:

II: AZCOM, DMU, ICOM, NYITCOM NY, Touro CA, Western CA

A: AZCOM

WL: DMU, ICOM, NYITCOM, Touro CA, Western CA

ghosted from: NSU, PCOM PA

withdrew from ICOM