ExcellentCycle2425
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Stats and Demographics:
4.00 (both cGPA and sGPA)
522 (132/127/131/132)
ORM Texas Resident
Q1 Casper last cycle, didn't take Preview
Undergrad: T50 State School
Clinical Experience (Will have ~320 hrs by end of May 2025; should have clinical job in June 2025)
Shadowing (~120 hrs total from last cycle; no new shadowing)
2 science profs, 1 non-science (psychology), 1 supervisor
Can't get a strong physician LOR
Results from last cycle:
TMDSAS: Baylor, UTSW, Long, McGovern, Texas A&M, Dell, UTMB, TTUHSC Lubbock, UT Tyler, UH
AMCAS: NYU, Einstein
Only 1 II @ a TX school and didn't match (maybe due to lack of mission fit). Pre-II R from everywhere else.
Applied to Roseman and waiting to hear back, but not expecting much since I don't have ties to Nevada.
School list for 2025-26 cycle (using admit.org):
I'm not sure if I should also apply to SHSU and TCOM (TX DO schools which are included in the TMDSAS primary fee) or any other DO schools? I want to be able to get into any specialty I choose down the line.
I was told by an adcom that I was low on clinical hours and community service, and my personal statement wasn't too good. I know my personal statement plays a huge role in decisions, so am working on it and should be much better this time.
Stats and Demographics:
4.00 (both cGPA and sGPA)
522 (132/127/131/132)
ORM Texas Resident
Q1 Casper last cycle, didn't take Preview
Undergrad: T50 State School
Clinical Experience (Will have ~320 hrs by end of May 2025; should have clinical job in June 2025)
- Hospital volunteer
- Aug 2023-Present
- Will have ~160 hrs (had 80 hrs last cycle)
- Hospice volunteer
- Dec 2023-Present
- Will have ~160 hrs (had 100 hrs last cycle)
- No paid clinical experience as of now, but will be getting a clinical (MA or patient care assistant or clinical research assistant) job after graduating in May 2025
- Undergrad Lab
- Jan 2023-Present
- Will have ~500 hrs by end of May 2025
- Productivity: 2 posters so far; presented 1 of them at 2 events; will have one more poster by May 2025
- Summer Research Program @ a med school
- May 2024-July 2024
- ~400 hrs
- Productivity: 1 poster; presented at 2 events
Shadowing (~120 hrs total from last cycle; no new shadowing)
- Primary Care: 40 hrs
- Anesthesiology: 40 hrs
- Neurosurgery: 40 hrs
- Religious organization
- Since June 2022 (I'm assuming you can't count before that since I was in high school)
- ~600 hrs by end of May 2025
- Shelter for homeless
- Feb 2025-Present
- ~100 hrs by end of May 2025
- Projected: Not sure where, but will find somewhere to volunteer in my gap year (after applying) for 3-4 hrs/week
- Tutor: ~375 hrs
- Another tutor position: 20-30 hrs (not sure if I should include since it isn't a big time commitment)
- Peer Mentor: ~60 hrs
- TA: ~110 hrs
- Student orientations job: ~100 hrs
- Sport, not on a competitive level: ~3 hrs/week
- Not sure if it counts, but I tutor a family member for 2-4 hrs/week
- Watching a sport and some TV shows (again not sure if I should include)
- Dean's List for one semester
- Am graduating a year early
- Used AP credits for gen chem and physics, so am not considering schools that won't accept them.
2 science profs, 1 non-science (psychology), 1 supervisor
Can't get a strong physician LOR
Results from last cycle:
TMDSAS: Baylor, UTSW, Long, McGovern, Texas A&M, Dell, UTMB, TTUHSC Lubbock, UT Tyler, UH
AMCAS: NYU, Einstein
Only 1 II @ a TX school and didn't match (maybe due to lack of mission fit). Pre-II R from everywhere else.
Applied to Roseman and waiting to hear back, but not expecting much since I don't have ties to Nevada.
School list for 2025-26 cycle (using admit.org):
- Reach (8): Harvard, Hopkins, NYU, UPenn, Columbia, Vandy, Duke, Mayo Clinic
- Target (3 IS+ 11 OOS =14): Baylor, UTSW, Long, Pitt, Mt Sinai, Emory, Case Western, University of Virginia, USC, Hofstra, USF Morsani, UChicago, University of Arizona (Phoenix), Einstein
- Baseline (9 IS + 9 OOS = 18): McGovern, Texas A&M, Dell, UTMB, TTUHSC Lubbock, Foster, UH, UT Tyler, UTRGV, University of Colorado, Hackensack Meridian, Dartmouth, Sidney Kimmel, Drexel, Temple, Virginia Tech, VCU, Wayne State
I'm not sure if I should also apply to SHSU and TCOM (TX DO schools which are included in the TMDSAS primary fee) or any other DO schools? I want to be able to get into any specialty I choose down the line.
I was told by an adcom that I was low on clinical hours and community service, and my personal statement wasn't too good. I know my personal statement plays a huge role in decisions, so am working on it and should be much better this time.
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