WAMC- NC Resident with 510 MCAT & 3.49 (Undergrad)/3.95 (Graduate)

[JRitt18]

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Hello everyone, thank you in advance for your help as this has caused me much stress and heartache over the past several months. I am trying to determine if I should apply this cycle or wait until next cycle to apply to medical programs, and on top of that what programs should I apply too. I will be reapplying (got one interview last cycle but did not submit apps until October) as a North Carolina resident, and below are all of my updated stats and experiences.

Universities - Undergrad=Campbell University; Graduate=North Carolina State University
MCAT (3 takes) - 495 (124/124/124,123), 500 (126,123,126, 125), 510 (126/125/130/129)
Undergrad GPA - BCPM=3.35; Total=3.49
Graduate GPA - BCPM=3.95; Total=3.95
Extracurriculars - Professor/Lab Instructor of A&P=5000 hrs (5 years of exp); Medical Mission Trip to Peru=80 hrs (1 week)
Volunteer - Hospice=500 hrs (1 year); Animal Shelter=150 hrs (1 year); Food Bank Volunteer/Meals on Wheels=50 hrs (1 year)
Clinical Work - Phlebotomy/Scribe=500 hrs (1 year)
Research - over 1000 combined hours with CUSOM and UNC with poster presentation and possible pub to come
Shadowing - over 1500 hrs of shadowing in many different health care positions and specialties (with anesthesia being the predominant of the bunch)

Thanks again for any and all help, it is truly appreciated.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

How is 5 years of teaching A&P an "extracurricular activity" and not employment?

 

[Faha]

You should apply to both MD and DO schools.
I suggest these MD schools:
East Carolina
UNC
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
NOVA MD
Tulane
TCU-UNT
Creighton
Loyola
Rush
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Georgetown
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Hackensack
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
For DO schools I suggest these:
CUSOM
VCOM (all school except Monroe)
WVSOM
PCOM (all schools)
MU-COM
DMU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
KCU-COM
TUNCOM
WESTERN
TUCOM-CA
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
ACOM
UIWSOM

 

[chilly_md]

Leave off the medical mission trip to Peru. It is a form of voluntourism.

 

[candbgirl]

How in the world did you get 1500 dedicated hours of shadowing?
Leave off the trip to Peru. ADCOMS won’t be impressed. Many consider it voluntourism.
Be very careful when you fill out your application. You seem to have thousands and thousands of hours. How did you go to classes and get a grad degree?

 

[JRitt18]

Thank you all for your input, the teaching will be put as a form of employment, and as for the hours, I am 25 and have been doing this for a long time (over 7 years) so they just build up over time. With all that being said I am also curious if having strong ties to particular regions make any difference (as I have these in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Louisiana). Also do you all think I am a competitive applicant for these MD schools and I should go ahead and apply this cycle? Again thanks for all the help I really appreciate it.

 

[chilly_md]

What was the graduate degree in? If you graduated high school in one of those states, it may help, but schools in the states you listed take very few OOS students (aside from Tulane, which is private)

 

[JRitt18]

My graduate degree was in Physiology, but no I did not graduate from any of these states, I just have family living in them and visit all the time. Thank you again for your help.