paramedic2md
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Hi, this is my first time posting on here. I'm hoping to get some advice on my school list to apply for the 2026 cycle. I previously applied in 2023 cycle, but ended up going to paramedic school and have been working as a paramedic for the past 7 months.
- cGPA: 3.89, sGPA: 3.84 (these are from my undergrad, not sure if these will go up since I have about 35 more credits from my paramedic school)
- MCAT: May 2022: 513 (129/127/130/127); January 2025: 509 (127/127/127/128)
- Wasn't able to study as much for my retake as I would have liked due to working full time
- CA resident
- ORM
- Private undergrad in SoCal
- Clinical experience:
- 4.5 years (4250 hrs) as EMT (2.5 yrs at time of previous app)
- 6 months (100 hrs) volunteering in playroom at children’s hospital (not technically clinical?)
- 1 year (~1600 hrs) as ER tech (new since previous app)
- 6 month paramedic internship (2 months in trauma center / pediatric ED) (new since previous app)
- 1 year (~3200 hrs) as 911 paramedic at time of primary app (new since previous app)
- No research experience
- Shadowing:
- 12 hours shadowing orthopedic surgeon
- 12 hours in L&D (new since previous app)
- 6 hours in cardiac cath lab (new since previous app)
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- 1.5 years (350 hrs) leader/intern for church young adults ministry
- 2 years (300 hrs) volunteering in church kid’s ministry
- Volunteering for county social services agency with child victims of abuse (~4 months by time of primary app)
- Extracurriculars:
- Paramedic academy class president (new since previous app)
- 2 years student leadership council for science college
- 3 years tutoring (600 hrs) middle/high schoolers
- Honors / awards:
- Paramedic Academy top scholar (new since previous app)
- [undergrad science college] talent scholar (awarded yearly to science college students for academic achievement)
- [undergrad] presidential school (awarded to students for academic achievement)
- I was WLed at two schools last time I applied, decided to go to paramedic school to advance my scope and because I have a strong interest in EM, ended up getting an A once I had already started medic school so I ended up withdrawing it because I was really excited about getting paramedic experience and the A was at a school I wasn’t in love with after interviewing (looking back I should have withdrew from the WL but just didn’t think about it at the time). Honestly, had no idea what I was doing when I previously applied, I have no one in my life that is in medicine so I learned a lot during that application cycle about what schools I should have / shouldn’t have applied to, writing secondary essays, etc.
- School list
- Since I have been out of college for over 3 years, getting faculty letters from undergrad isn’t possible but I will be trying to get letters from faculty of my paramedic school, so I'm trying to exclude schools that require science professor letters
- This list is just what I have so far, but hoping to scale it down
- UofA Tucson
- UC Davis
- UC Riverside
- University of Colorado
- Quinnipiac
- George Washinton
- Chicago Medical School (Rosalind Franklin)
- Rush
- University of Illinois
- Tulane
- Central Michigan
- Oakland University (Beaumont)
- Western Michigan
- Creighton
- Albany
- Wake Forest
- Drexel
- Lewis Katz at Temple
- Frist (Belmont)
- TCU
- University of Vermont
- Virginia Commonwealth
- ICOM
- UNE COM
- MSU COM
- NYITCOM
- OSU-COM
- VCOM
- PCOM
- Noorda COM
