WAMC for MD - Avg MCAT with OK EC

[medicalchic17]

Hi! Recently received my MCAT score and it was lower than expected so it has turned my life upside down.
I have my PS almost ready to go but I just haven't gotten myself to write the activities which I have around 15. I am struggling with a school list because the one I had just doesn't make sense with my score (listing the updated list with schools that might work with my score). Planning on only applying MD. This was very unexpected so it has been hard coming to terms with taking an additional gap year. Do you think it might be already be late for me to apply given my app is not ready? Should I stick it out and finish my app and apply?

Please help! Any advice is appreciated!

• 3.9 cGPA and 3.8 sGPA
• 507 (4/2024) (126, 126, 128, 127)
• FL resident
• Latino
• T30 undergrad institution
• Clinical experience: doula (300hrs), medical interpreter (300hrs), hospital maternity tour guide (180hrs), health screener during covid at a hospital (400hrs), CNA (80hrs current, around 300 expected)
• 1700 research hours with 1 first author pub
• 400 hours shadowing/scribing for a family med and ortho doctors
• Around 400 non-clinical volunteering hours which includes an international volunteering experience to help the underserved battling cancer
• Founder of a mental health project (around 800hrs) winning best top 20 projects nationally and best officer award. I was a TA for two semesters for genetics and anatomy (around 130hrs)

School list:

U Miami Leonard M. Miller SOM

University of Florida COM

Wertheim College of Medicine

Nova Southeastern Univ

USF-Morsani

Florida State U Coll of Med

Georgetown University SOM

George Washington University S

Wake Forest Univ SOM

Pennsylvania State U COM

U Wisc. Sch of Med. & Pub Hlth

LKSOM-Temple

Rush Med Coll - Rush U Med Ctr

Chicago Med Rosalind Franklin

Drexel University Coll of Med

LSU Sch of Med New Orleans

Tulane University Sch of Med

University of Illinois COM

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[Faha]

It is not late to submit your application. You can submit until early July and complete all your secondaries by August.
LSU admits few non residents with your stats and U Wisconsin admits few non residents with your stats.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
Florida State
U Florida
Central Florida
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
USF Morsani
Miami
Nova MD
Tulane
TCU
Creighton
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
Rush
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Georgetown
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Hackensack
Albany
Einstein
Vermont
Quinnipiac

 

[BenzeneToluene]

Not an expert by any means, but I know a couple of Latinos who are Florida residents that applied last cycle with similar stats as you. They all were able to get MD acceptances either in Florida or elsewhere. You should be in solid shape for a good amount of the Florida schools and at a lot of the OOS schools that Faha listed. Your EC profile is excellent and I think you’ll get good success this cycle if you submit your materials ASAP. Good luck and don’t stress too much!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Don't be discouraged. Seek mentors or peers in LMSA chapters at the schools on your list.

 

[candbgirl]

Do you have any nonclinical volunteering in the US?
Depending on your answer, eliminate Rush and Loyola and any other service oriented schools. Rush expects and gets hundreds if not thousands of service hours.
What Latino group do you represent? I assume you are fluent in Spanish. If so, stress that in your application.

 

[medicalchic17]

Do you have any nonclinical volunteering in the US?
Depending on your answer, eliminate Rush and Loyola and any other service oriented schools. Rush expects and gets hundreds if not thousands of service hours.
What Latino group do you represent? I assume you are fluent in Spanish. If so, stress that in your application.

I have around 200 non clinical hours in the US from homeless and women shelters. and yes I am native speaker!