WAMC - KS Nontrad / 3.80 cGPA 3.86sGPA / 512 MCAT help with school list

[FlyingPanda2]

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So little background info, I was originally born and raised in California but moved to Kansas for college, ended up at normal state school and got my BSN. Currently working as a RN in the ER of a level 1 trauma center. GPA wise it was pretty much 3.9 until nursing school hit and then it definetly took a hit. Currently finishing up a DIY postbac at a community college.

1. cGPA 3.8 and sGPA 3.86. I did do a DIY postbac at a community college. Took Bio1/2, Physics 1/2, and BioChem (which is my biggest concern if schools will screen due to BioChem at CC. PostBac GPA will be 4.0 with 28 hours.
2. MCAT score: 512 (129/125/129/129). Thinking about retaking but realistically I am happy with all but my CARS score and I don't know how much I can improve in 1 to 2 month
3. State of residence: KS but family lives in CA and grew up there.
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Asian
5. Undergraduate institution: KS state school (R2 category)
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 1200 as a Nurse Intern during school. 2080 as a RN on a Cardiac Transplant Stepdown Floor. 1600 as an RN in a ER of a level 1 trauma center. Will be staying fulltime as a RN for the next year in the ER so another 2080 anticipated hours.
7. Research experience and productivity: Started in 2020 and have stayed with the same lab since. Will have 1 pub as second author. Did start with another lab last year but will not have any manuscripts by the time I submit primaries. Have presented at mostly regional and 1 national conference. Mostly poster and 1 oral.
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: Cardio Cardiothoracic Surgeon, 2 Cardiologists, 1 Trauma Intensivist/Surgeon, 1 Neuro Intensivist, 1 Neurologist, and 1 Plastic Surgeon
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 80 hours with our International Office taking International Students on outings in the city in freshmen year and about 60 through a biannual service event host by our Community Service club where I was a site leader.
10. Other extracurricular activities: 1200 hours in Student Government in leadership positions for both Legislative and Executive branches. 550 hours as a Chem tutor. About 1000ish as a mentor through an annual retreat hosted by our Diversity Office for incoming freshmen and was a mentor for said freshmen during their first year.
11. Relevant honors or awards: Nominated once for DAISY and received research scholarship/grant money through the Kansas Institutional Development Award

Ultimate goal is MD/PhD but not sure if my stats are competitive enough for it. As for schools, dream schools are either Case Western or one of the UC schools. Will also apply for KU due to their strong instate basis for KS. Besides that I’m sctraching my head for what schools I should apply to. The list below is effective all the schools that have MD/PhD programs that I am considering. Would appreciate help narrowing it down as well as suggestions on other schools. MD/PhD or not. Also, advice on potentially retaking BioChem at a 4 year due to some schools not accepting BioChem at a CC (did get a A though at CC).

University of Arizona College of Medicine

University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix

University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of Medicine

University of Kansas School of Medicine

Tulane University School of Medicine

Drexel University College of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E Heersink School of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

University of California Irvine School of Medicine

Kaiser Permanente Bernard J Tyson School of Medicine

University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Georgetown University School of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo

Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine

University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville

Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the Universit of Utah

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

University of Colorado School of Medicine

George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences

Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Pennsylvania State University COllege of Medicine

University of Illinois College of Medicine

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Saint Lous University School of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

State University of New York Upstate Medical University Alan and Marlene Norton College of MEdicine

Ohio State University College of Medicine

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at the University of Vermont

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Howard University College of Medicine

Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Boston University Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine

University of Massachusetts TH Chan School of Medicine

Loma Linda University School of Medicine

 

[Faha]

You have many state public schools on your list that admit few non residents with no connection to the state. Carle is looking for applicants with an engineering background. Howard mainly admits applicants from the African American community. I suggest these schools with your stats:
Kansas
Creighton
TCU
St. Louis
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
Rush
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Alice Walton
Tulane
Belmont
NOVA MD
Methodist (when it opens)
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Georgetown
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
UMass
Quinnipiac
Roseman
Kaiser
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

Could you go into more detail why you are thinking MD/PhD as a purpose to be a physician?

Could you break down your clinical experience once you were done with nursing school? I don't want to count the hours you had while you were a student. Same for community service: what have you done since you graduated?

 

[FlyingPanda2]

Welcome to the forums.

Could you go into more detail why you are thinking MD/PhD as a purpose to be a physician?

Could you break down your clinical experience once you were done with nursing school? I don't want to count the hours you had while you were a student. Same for community service: what have you done since you graduated?

Definitely! For the MD/PhD, I found that I am most interested in the science aspects of healthcare and from my research experience in undergrad, thinking about how it can be applied to clinical medicine was what excited me the most. In essence, I want my career to be bridging the gap between the basic sciences and clinical practice.

For clinical experience after nursing school, I worked for 1 year in a cardiac transplant high acuity floor where we took, heart and liver tx post ICU and LVADs. After that I took a job in the ER of a level 1 trauma center and have been then for about 7 months.

As for community service. I don't have any direct community service since graduation but the lab I am currently with has been on a volunteer basis for a little over 1 year.