WAMC/School List (3.92 GPA, 504 MCAT, MI, ORM)

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Hi everyone, I'm a Michigan resident currently planning to apply to all MD/DO Michigan schools (except Umich due to their high average MCAT). I need some help creating a realistic OOS school list. Thank you in advance!

• My cGPA is 3.92 and my sGPA is 3.93
• My first MCAT score was a 499 (125/123/125/126) and the latest attempt is 504 (123/125/126/130)
• Michigan resident, female, Indian, Asian
• I went to a Mid-tier Michigan university, Public Health major
• Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
  • Medical Assistant (paid) - 600 hours, might continue
  • Hospice volunteer (unpaid) - 40 hours, ongoing
• Research experience and productivity
  • Participated in a research lab for 1 year, no pubs, 1 poster presentation, and honors thesis - 300 hours
• Shadowing experience and specialties represented
  • Dermatology - 40 hours
• Non-clinical volunteering
  • Prison Education Project (tutored inmates) - 40 hours, ongoing
  • Crisis Text Line - 200 hours, ongoing
• Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
  • Worked in a tutoring center (paid) - 300 hours
  • Private tutoring (paid) - 50 hours
• Relevant honors or awards
  • Academic scholarships, Dean's List all semesters, and was in the Honors program

Current school list:

• Wayne State
• Michigan State (MD and DO)
• Oakland (OUWB)
• Western Michigan
• Central Michigan

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[Mr.Smile12]

Make sure all of your DO schools in the region are on your list: CCOM, Marian, MSU, LECOM at least.

Do you have any primary care exposure? What area is your MA job?

No campus involvement or leadership?

The vulnerability in your application is your non-clinical volunteering as Text Line may not involve enough face-to-face interactions compared to doing similar work as a shelter volunteer. Tutoring inmates will definitely get you some brownie points though you need a community service activity that is less "academic" as you already have quite a bit of tutoring in your profile already. Thus, you are vulnerable to getting screened out at most medical schools for lack of service orientation activities; coupled with the low MCAT, that may make your application very vulnerable in the AMCAS pool.

 

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I suggest adding these DO schools to your application:
LECOM (all schools)
MU-COM
CCOM
DMU-COM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
AZCOM
TUNCOM
UIWSOM
CUSOM
ACOM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
PCOM (all schools)
For OOS MD schools I suggest these:
Toledo
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
TCU
Belmont
Eastern Virginia
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Albany
Vermont
Alice Walton (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)