WAMC MD/DO 3.7cGPA 3.55sGPA 512 MCAT

[fi3451]

cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS

• 3.7 cGPA
• 3.55 sGPA (sGPA is swoosh shaped)

MCAT score(s) and breakdown

• 512

State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)

• WA

Ethnicity and/or race

• White

Undergraduate institution or category

• Large private university

Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)

• Clinical (300 hours)

Research experience and productivity

• Research (30 hours)
• Should I even bother including this? I am leaning towards not including it. I am not super interested in doing research and hope to be a PCP.

Shadowing experience and specialties represented

• Shadowing with PCPs (50 hours)

Non-clinical volunteering

• Non-clinical volunteering (500+ hours)

Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)

• I have worked 4000+ hours during college in a job unrelated to healthcare and will continue job through application cycle
• I will be volunteering at PCP’s clinic once a week throughout application cycle as well as continuing my non-clinical volunteering
• 1000's of hours of leadership

Anything else not listed you think might be important

• I speak Spanish (much of my ECs are working with Spanish speakers)
• Graduated in 2018
• I am interested in rural medicine

I will be applying to about 10 DO schools and I am trying to whittle down my list of MD schools. This is what I’ve got so far:

Washington
Washington State
Loma Linda
Creighton
Netter
NYMC
Loyola
Vermont
EVMS
Nova
TCU & UNTHSC
CUSM
Albany
Temple
Wake Forest
Wright State
Rosalind Franklin
George Washington
VCU

Please let me know what you think of my app and whether I should add or remove any schools. Thanks!

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[Faha]

You have a good list. You could add these schools:
Seton Hall
Drexel
Jefferson
Oakland Beaumont
St. Louis

 

[fi3451]

@Goro Is my lack of research concerning for the schools listed above? Does my list seem reasonable?

 

[Goro]

@Goro Is my lack of research concerning for the schools listed above? Does my list seem reasonable?

Research is over-rated by pre-meds.
Many of the schools on your list are service loving.

Delete Loma Linda is you are not SDA or a very religious Christian,

Delete Wright State; replace with those from Faha's list, and Rush, Wayne State, Tulane, Gtown, SLU, MCW, PacNW and Western-OR

 

[fi3451]

Thank you! @Goro @Faha