MD WAMC/School List: 521, 3.36cGPA, 3.48sGPA, URM

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1. GPA: 3.36 cGPA, 3.48 sGPA (Last 78 credits over last 5 semesters at 3.96 gpa)
2. MCAT: 521 (131/129/130/131)
   
   
3. State Residency: Michigan
   
   
4. Race: Black Male (African); both parents are MDs and graduated overseas then immigrated to US
   
   
5. Undergraduate Institution: T200 state school
   
   
6. Clinical Experience:
    • 700 hours paid EMT (911)
    • 200 hours hospital volunteering (Patient transport)
   
   
7. Research:
    • 3,000 hours in a wet lab
    • 3 posters at ug conferences (won award at all 3)
    • No publications yet
   
   
8. Shadowing: 66 hours total
    • 2 diff primary care specialties and emergency medicine
    • Shadowed 4 different physicians total
   
   
9. Nonclinical Volunteering: 100 hours at a soup kitchen (i know i should have more :/)
   
   
10. Leadership: 500 hours
     • President/co-founder of org (grew it to 150+ members) that partnered with a local hospital and we organized social/physical activity events for patients and distributed meals to the homeless in my area.
    
    
11. Awards & Grants:
     • Received a $2.5k undergraduate research grant
     • Won 3 poster awards
     • A few other minor ones
    
    
12. Nonclinical Paid Work: 600 hours as an instructor in a sport
    
    
13. Chicago ties? Many family members live there and I have visited multiple times per year since I was a child.
    

Underlying theme of my app in general is serving the underserved community specifically where I live. I'm spending a lot of time writing to make sure my message comes across well.

6 LORs: 3 sci prof, 1 from hospital volunteering, 1 PI, 1 supervisor at EMT. No physician letter.

I am taking a gap year (just graduated) and was not premed for the first 1.5yrs of undergrad (wanted to get PhD and work in biotech, hence high research hours). Long story short, hospital volunteering swayed my opinion and eventually led me to getting an EMT license, starting my org, and committing to medicine.


Honestly, I don't have a good excuse for GPA. I was just irresponsible/careless and definitely grew a lot and learned from that time in sophomore year. Had a few Fs in freshman and sophomore year which is what really tanked the gpa. Also, I most likely won’t be writing an OIE essay so where can I address low gpa if I should at all? Majority of credits in junior/senior year were from upper level science courses.


Scared about hesitations from med schools b/c of low gpa and both parents are MDs. I would really appreciate help with MD school list b/c of low gpa/high mcat. I’m def applying to all my state schools other than that I’m a bit lost.

Please feel free to ask me any questions. Thank you all!

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You should accumulate another 50+ hours at the soup kitchen before you submit your application since some schools screen at 150 hours of non clinical volunteering. I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Michigan
Michigan State
Wayne State
Central Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Western Michigan
Northwestern
U Chicago
Boston University
Tufts
UMass
Dartmouth
Brown
Hofstra
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
NYU (free tuition)
New York Medical College
Rochester
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
Georgetown
George Washington
Duke
Emory
Miami
USF Morsani
Tulane
Vanderbilt
Indiana

 

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Thank you so much! @Faha

 

[Mr.Smile12]

As a black male applicant, you should include your HBCU schools: Howard, Morehouse, Charles Drew, Meharry. You should also connect with SNMA and other non-profit mentoring organizations that support aspiring Black (male) physicians.

 

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Thanks, I'll look into that