WAMC/School List - 515 MCAT, 4.0 GPA, ORM

[deleted1199641]

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What are my chances? I applied last cycle, had 1 interview resulting in WL-->R.

1. 4.0 GPA
2. 515 MCAT: C/P:129, CARS: 128, B/B: 128, P/S: 130
3. MN Resident
4. White male
5. Small private school in MN
6. Clinical experience: 2000 hrs as pain medicine scribe, 340 hrs scribing in the ER, and 350 hrs volunteering with hospice patients
7. Research experience and productivity: 600 hrs research in basic biology lab, 2 pubs (1 first author, 1 coauthor), 2 poster conferences
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 67 hrs shadowing: family med 20 hrs, general surgey 20 hrs, orthopedic surgery 10 hrs, emergency medicine 10 hrs, and interventional pain medicine 7 hrs
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 100 hrs food shelf volunteer over 4 years
10. Other extracurricular activities: club founder and president for 2 years, tutoring for 2 years in gen chem/bio, worked landscaping between fresh/soph year, small group leader for church, played a sport competitively through high school and was involved in serving underrepresented communities in the sport in college.
11. Relevant honors or awards: summa cum laude, awarded small research grant, awarded inorganic chem student of the year, awarded excellence in tutoring award.

School List has been updated since last year. I applied to a lot of out of state public schools, which I removed.

1. University of Minnesota Medical School (public)
2. Creighton University School of Medicine (private)
3. University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine (public)
4. University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences (public)
5. Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (private)
6. Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (Reach) (private)
7. Medical College of Wisconsin - Requires Casper (private)
8. Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science (private)
9. Saint Louis University School of Medicine (requires Preview) (private)
10. Tufts University School of Medicine (private)
11. Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU (requires Casper) (private)
12. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (Reach) (private)
13. NYU Grossman School of Medicine (Reach) (private)
14. Loma Linda University School of Medicine (Christian mission fit) (private)
15. Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
16. Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
17. University of Wisconsin Madison (Requires Preview)
18. Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University (Requires Preview)
19. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (Casper and duet) (private)
20. Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (Casper) (private)
21. Robert Larner, MD, College of Medicine at the University of Vermont (Requires Casper)

 

[Faha]

Accumulate another 50+ hours at the food bank before you apply since some schools screen at 150 hours for non clinical volunteering.
Schools such as Loyola, St. Louis and Creighton are looking for applicants with many hundreds of hours of non clinical volunteering.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Minnesota
North Dakota
U Wisconsin
Medical College Wisconsin
Iowa
Rosalind Franklin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
TCU
Roseman
Loma Linda
Alice Walton
Belmont
NOVA MD
USF Morsani
Wake Forest
Methodist (when it opens)
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Hackensack
Hofstra
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
UMass

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Only 100 hours of work at a food pantry over 4 years? So 25 hours per year, so not even 1 hour a week?

 

[deleted1199641]

Only 100 hours of work at a food pantry over 4 years? So 25 hours per year, so not even 1 hour a week?

I'll go DO if I have to. It really doesn't matter to me anymore. This process is endless. I could in theory be premed for the next 10 years, and I still wouldn't be good enough.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I'll go DO if I have to. It really doesn't matter to me anymore. This process is endless. I could in theory be premed for the next 10 years, and I still wouldn't be good enough.

I don't mean to sound flippant, but you will suffer from imposter syndrome as a medical student as resident too. (Read the essay compilation "The Perfect Doctor.")

We have posters in Nontrads that made it. Mindset is important. Otherwise, why not PA? Anesthesiology or surgery assistant? Why does it have to be MD or bust?

 

[GoSpursGo]

I think your list was very top heavy, or not aligned with your mission fit. If you get additional nonclinical volunteering hours and apply to a list more like what @Faha suggested, you should get into an MD school. Would also be helpful to know when you applied and consider if timing may have affected your outcome

 

[ClashRoyaleKing]

Improve school list, improve non-clinical volunteering/service orientation, and grind your MD/DO apps and you'll give youself a solid chance of getting in.

This process is endless

The cycle goes quickly if you set yourself up for success and keep busy. I can't believe it's May 1st this week, and waitlist movement will pick up.

 

[Med Ed]

As a White male you are not ORM. That designation is typically reserved for individuals descended from certain regions of Asia.

I call your pattern The Mistake: strong stats, strong clinical, strong research, weak service. It became apparent to me after reading countless threads in the reapplicant forum.

The right type of service is particularly useful for applicants like yourself, who grew up in a stable middle-class environment and then went to college. Medicine is a humanistic profession, and that means all of humanity: the sick, the poor, the addicted, the mentally ill. Spending time with these challenging populations should affirm your desire to become a physician, and ideally this will translate into a more compelling application.

Many think that clinical hours will compensate for this, but those hours are inherently "contaminated" by the benefits they give to the applicant, be it clinical exposure, a LOR, and/or compensation. Non-clinical volunteering is a purer endeavor.

Also, since you got so little traction this cycle in spite of your stats and other experiences, I would completely rewrite your PS and essays.