WAMC/School List Help: 3.82, 512/511, TX resident, re-applicant

[corgimd]

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Hello! I am re-applicant (last applied for EY2021 cycle) and was wondering if I could receive some help in cutting down my school list. For the DO schools especially, I wasn’t sure if I should take some out or if other ones would be better to add in. I was aiming to apply to around 35 schools and was wondering also if there was input on how many of them should be DO vs. MD. Thank you so much!

• GPA:
  • TMDSAS: cGPA - 3.84, sGPA: 3.67
  • AMCAS: cGPA - 3.82, sGPA: 3.65
• MCAT score(s) and breakdown
  • 2019 - 512 (128/129/127/128)
  • 2020 - 512 (128/128/128/128)
  • 2022 - 511 (129/126/127/129)
• State of residence
  • Texas
• Ethnicity and/or race
  • Asian American Female
• Undergraduate institution or category
  • top 20 private institution
• Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
  • Ophthalmic clinic technician/scribe: 2100 hours
  • Various hospital volunteering: 88 hours
  • Volunteer medical service trip: 72 hours
• Research experience and productivity
  • Biological research during undergrad: 326 hours
  • Clinical research coordinator: 1560 hours (current, ongoing employment)
  • No publications
• Shadowing experience and specialties represented
  • 38 hours: cardiovascular surgery, family medicine, cardiology/electrophysiology
• Non-clinical volunteering
  • Summer camp counselor: 300 hours
  • Mentoring refugee youth: 42 hours
  • Food bank: 33 hours (current, ongoing)
• Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
  • Teaching assistant for a year - 144 hours
  • Held leadership positions for my university’s branch of nonprofit organization (summer camp for children whose parents have cancer) for two years (coordinator for fundraising and then for volunteers), was a committee member for the other two years - 680 hours
  • Club for fundraising for Parksinon’s organization for one year - 30 hours
  • Intern at nonprofit preschool for a semester (for program that partnered students at the university with a nonprofit to work on a research driven project, received credit hours) - 60 hours
  • Lead peer academic advisor for two years at residential college in addition to being peer academic advisor for three years - 90 hours
  • Orientation week advisor for three years, continued to peer mentor throughout academic year - 560 hours
  • Member of Christian ministry for four years and was a small group leader for a year - 600 hours
• Relevant honors or awards
  • Honor roll for two semesters
• Anything else not listed you think might be important
  • Last applied to all TMDSAS MD schools and a few MD schools on AMCAS, received one interview
  • Graduated from undergrad in May 2020 with sociology major
  • Grew up in California but have had TX residency for past few years

Current school list:

All TMDSAS schools (MD (12) and DO (2))

AMCAS:

1. Albany Medical College
2. Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
3. Creighton University School of Medicine
4. Drexel University College of Medicine
5. Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
6. Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
7. Georgetown University School of Medicine
8. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
9. Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
10. Loma Linda University
11. Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
12. Oakland University William Beaumont
13. Medical College of Wisconsin
14. Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
15. Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
16. Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
17. Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
18. Tulane University School of Medicine
19. University of Miami Miller
20. Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
21. Wake Forest School of Medicine

AACOMAS

1. University of Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
2. Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern University
3. Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
4. Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
5. Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine
6. Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
7. Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
8. Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine
9. Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific
10. William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine
11. West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
12. Lincoln Memorial University DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine

 

[chilly_md]

OOS MD schools do not tend to interview TX residents since they historically have stayed in state. The only AMCAS schools I would recommend are Tulane, TCU and Loma Linda (if your religious beliefs align).

For DO, you are competitive for all of them. Apply to the TMDAS ones as well as:

UIWSOM
AZCOM (high tuition FYI)
LECOM
PCOM
DMU
Marian
Campbell
WCU
Touro NV
Touro CA
Touro NY
NYITCOM
KCOM
KCU