MD WAMC/School List 3.58 cGPA, Terrible Undergrad sGPA, 3.82 Post-Bac sGPA, 518 MCAT, 7 years experience non-trad

[g0ldendoodle]

---

Members don't see this ad.

Hey all,

Hoping for some input on my schools list while my primary is processing.

• GPA:
  • Cumulative: 3.58
  • AAMC BCPM: 3.26
  • Undergrad Cumulative: 3.50 (first three semesters: 2.5, then 2.2, 3.3, then 3.9 avg rest of way after dropping pre-med)
  • Undergrad BCPM: 2.04 (This is 10+ years ago, I took an F and a D plus some B's chem/math freshman year)
  • Post-Bacc: 3.82 (all science, 41 credit hours)
• MCAT: 518 (128/131/128/131)
• State: Maryland
• Demographics: white male, childhood rural and underserved medically
• Undergrad: T20 private school, B.S. in Public Health
• Post-Bacc:part-time DIY at T50 university
• Clinical Experience:
  • Unpaid EMT (750h)
  • Unpaid Pediatrics Department intern (250h)
  • Unpaid Radiology Clinic intern, poster presentation (250h)
• Non-clinical Volunteering (last 2 years):
  • Animal Shelter (360h + 100 anticipated)
  • Homeless/Special Needs Youth Center + Best Buddies (50h + 40 anticipated)
• Professional Experience:
  • Management Consulting: mix of care delivery/med tech/drug supply chain (9,000h)
  • Finance: institutional investing/private equity (6,300h, 2,300 anticipated)
• Relevant Honors or Awards: nothing major, award for the public health research by a national medical organization, various semester academic honors
• Anything else:
  • I have a misdemeanor reckless driving violation: 2 years ago, 90 in a 55. Paid the fine, completed 8 hours of driver improvement, no license suspension or anything like that. Gets expunged in 5 years. Learned my lesson and will never happen again.
  • Interested in competitive specialties like Derm, Ortho, Plastic but not dead-set
  • My fiancé and I are considering relocating very soon if it would help with IS chances and costs: CA, HI, FL, NC, SC, VA…she is in the surfing/diving industry professionally, so coastal and warm are ideal. She's willing to compromise for school and says we could try to get there for residency.

Now for the schools...

• Reach:
  • Stanford
  • Harvard
  • Duke
  • USF
  • UVA
  • Cornell
• Target:
  • USC Keck
  • UC...SD, Irvine, SF, LA
  • Kaiser
  • Miami
  • University of Florida
  • Florida Atlantic
  • Central Florida
  • Hawaii
  • Emory
  • Dartmouth
  • Brown
  • Georgetown
  • Maryland
  • UNC Chapel Hill
  • U of A Phoenix
• Baseline:
  • FIU
  • Wake Forest
  • EVMS
  • VCU
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Tulane
  • UAB
• Question Marks (?):
  • Hopkins, Yale, Mayo, Vandy, WUSTL (too reach-y to be worth the time and money? For Hopkins, 25+ years of life in Maryland)
  • Baylor, TCU, UT Austin (fiancé is very strongly anti-Texas)
  • Pitt, UMich, Case Western (could be targets, hesitant about location)
  • MUSC, USC Columbia (super expensive unless we moved there)

Any schools not worth applying to with my background? Any I should consider? Thanks for any input!

 

[Faha]

Some of your schools are unrealistic with your stats and some are state public schools that admit few non residents with no connection to the state. I suggest these schools, which include schools that reward reinvention:
Maryland
West Virginia
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Wake Forest
Duke
Emory
NOVA MD
USF Morsani
Miami
Belmont
TCU
St. Louis
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Kaiser
George Washington
Georgetown
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
Hofstra
Mount Sinai
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Dartmouth
UMass
Tufts
Boston University

 

[g0ldendoodle]

Some of your schools are unrealistic with your stats and some are state public schools that admit few non residents with no connection to the state. I suggest these schools, which include schools that reward reinvention:
...

Thanks, some more info on some state ties...

Cali: Postbacc was here (DIY, no linkage), fiance's work has locations in LA, SD, SF, and Irvine - all easily relocatable.

• UCSD
• UCLA
• UCI
• UCSF
• Kaiser (Private)
• USC (Private, likes to interview IS)
• Stanford (Private, 518 is matriculated median, too much of a reach for other reasons?)

Hawaii: Parents separated, mother lives here, spend a couple months every year for the last few years here and love it.

• JABSOM

Florida: Brother lives here plus several extended family members. Works well for similar reasons above.

• FAU
• FIU
• UCF
• USF
• UF
• Miami (Private)
• Nova (Private)

Do you think these would be reasonable if I were an in-state applicant there?

 

[Faha]

Thanks, some more info on some state ties...

Cali: Postbacc was here (DIY, no linkage), fiance's work has locations in LA, SD, SF, and Irvine - all easily relocatable.

• UCSD
• UCLA
• UCI
• UCSF
• Kaiser (Private)
• USC (Private, likes to interview IS)
• Stanford (Private, 518 is matriculated median, too much of a reach for other reasons?)

Hawaii: Parents separated, mother lives here, spend a couple months every year for the last few years here and love it.

• JABSOM

Florida: Brother lives here plus several extended family members. Works well for similar reasons above.

• FAU
• FIU
• UCF
• USF
• UF
• Miami (Private)
• Nova (Private)

Do you think these would be reasonable if I were an in-state applicant there?

Those ties you cite are not connections for the purpose of medical schools admissions. A connection for medical school admissions would be if you were raised in the state and graduated from high school there or graduated from an undergraduate or graduate school there.