WAMC/School List Advice (IN, MCAT 510, GPA 3.79)

[DDN908]

Hi, updated my WAMC for the likelihood that I will be reapplying next year (2 WL from Indiana University and Toledo, had 1 interview with Roseman last Thursday). Along with making my writing more specified for each school, I was looking for advice regarding DO school selection this time around as well as MD. I do plan on reapplying for the most part to the MD schools Faha already provided me below.

-22 y/o Asian IN resident ORM

-3.79 GPA

-510 MCAT 130/126/128/126 --> NEW retook 4/25 so waiting on score for that

clinical:
-450 paid clinical hours as patient care tech,
NEW: 1500 hours of GI medical scribing
NEW: 40 hours at non profit clinic rooming patients, getting their history/vitals, and helping out with a mainly Hispanic population

nonclinical:
-400 hours non-clinical employment as a caregiver
-20 hours of physician shadowing
-70 hours of non-clinical volunteering for my professor's program working with kids w/ disabilities
-90 hours of being a chemistry teaching intern
-130 hours of club secretary for the college's first card club
NEW: 100 hours of non-clinical volunteering at local food bank doing some activities interacting with the mostly African-American and Burmese community/locals and some preparation stuff with less interaction

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[ClashRoyaleKing]

Yeah remove the OOS publics. Do you have MSAR? Perhaps purchase a subscription and research some schools to add. Do you want to stay in the mid west?

 

[DDN908]

Yeah remove the OOS publics. Do you have MSAR? Perhaps purchase a subscription and research some schools to add. Do you want to stay in the mid west?

Yeah I do have the MSAR and looked at most schools on the list to see their OOS data, but I just wanted more opinions to support this list or change it however. I have no preference where I go except a slight preference for hoping to stay in state at IU.

 

[Faha]

You have many state public schools on your list that admit few non residents with a MCAT of 510 and no connection to the state.
I suggest these schools:
Indiana
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Toledo
TCU
Belmont
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Albany
New York Medical College
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Alice Walton (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)

 

[DDN908]

You have many state public schools on your list that admit few non residents with a MCAT of 510 and no connection to the state.
I suggest these schools:
Indiana
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Toledo
TCU
Belmont
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Albany
New York Medical College
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Alice Walton (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)

Thank you for the advice!

 

[DDN908]

You have many state public schools on your list that admit few non residents with a MCAT of 510 and no connection to the state.
I suggest these schools:
Indiana
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Toledo
TCU
Belmont
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Albany
New York Medical College
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Alice Walton (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)

hi @Faha , sorry to ask this as i am getting a little bit of imposter syndrome. do you think i'm a competitive applicant based on what i have right now for the school list, or am i on the lower end of applicants based on your knowledge?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Not to make your anxiety worse, but I am having difficulty identifying your service orientation nonclinical activities. Have you done any food distribution, shelter volunteer, job and tax preparation, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation? You should have 150 hours to avoid getting screened out at most schools.

 

[DDN908]

Not to make your anxiety worse, but I am having difficulty identifying your service orientation nonclinical activities. Have you done any food distribution, shelter volunteer, job and tax preparation, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation? You should have 150 hours to avoid getting screened out at most schools.

Yea I worked a decent amount of hours at my local food bank, but because the hours were during high school, I thought I wasn't supposed to put it down due to only having done it in high school, but looking back at it, because I'm taking a gap year, I could've included it in my activities and included anticipated hours, so that is my fault. I hope to include that information in my potential secondaries.

 

[Faha]

hi @Faha , sorry to ask this as i am getting a little bit of imposter syndrome. do you think i'm a competitive applicant based on what i have right now for the school list, or am i on the lower end of applicants based on your knowledge?

You are probably an average applicant for those schools. Indiana is your best chance.

 

[DDN908]

Hello, I was hoping to bump this for some advice regarding DO school lists for next cycle perhaps? I updated my WAMC above today, and I plan on applying to most of the schools above that Faha recommended but will remove some to add at least a handful of DO schools. Any help is appreciated!

Here is what I planned on atm with removing some MDs:

MSU COM
Des Moines University COM
KCU COM
Marian University
TCOM
OSU COM
Rowan Com

 

[Faha]

OSU-COM, TCOM and Rowan have an instate or regional preference. You could add any of these schools:
ATSU-KCOM
AZCOM
CCOM
PCOM
CUSOM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
There will be a lot of waitlist movement in May and you have 3 schools where you could be accepted.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Yea I worked a decent amount of hours at my local food bank, but because the hours were during high school, I thought I wasn't supposed to put it down due to only having done it in high school, but looking back at it, because I'm taking a gap year, I could've included it in my activities and included anticipated hours, so that is my fault. I hope to include that information in my potential secondaries.

If you haven't done any additional hours since high school, you should think about resuming it. Anticipated hours mean very little. I don't know if listing your high school hours at the food bank without showing continuation is helpful.

Can you highlight in your WAMC profile any updates from your first WAMC? It would just make sense when anyone has to review your advice since your previous lists and advice are included.

 

[DDN908]

If you haven't done any additional hours since high school, you should think about resuming it. Anticipated hours mean very little. I don't know if listing your high school hours at the food bank without showing continuation is helpful.

Can you highlight in your WAMC profile any updates from your first WAMC? It would just make sense when anyone has to review your advice since your previous lists and advice are included.

Sure, done, I added "NEW" in front of the activities I have completed during my gap year atm.

 

[wysdoc]

OSU-COM, TCOM and Rowan have an instate or regional preference. You could add any of these schools:
ATSU-KCOM
AZCOM
CCOM
PCOM
CUSOM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
There will be a lot of waitlist movement in May and you have 3 schools where you could be accepted.

TCOM is great but it uses the TMDSAS application, it wouldn't be worth it to you to fill out that app just for TCOM.

 

[DDN908]

Thoughts on my next cycle school list based on what I have above (and is subject to change depending on my new MCAT):

MD:
Indiana
Toledo
Roseman
Albany
West Virginia
Rosalind Franklin
Temple
Western Michigan
New York Medical College
Belmont
Wake Forest
Drexel
Central Michigan
Jefferson
Vermont
Medical College Wisconsin
Wayne State
Oakland Beaumont
Penn State
Eastern Virginia

DO:
MSU COM
DMUCOM
PCOM
KCU COM
OUHCOM
NYIT Arkansas COM
Marian COM