cGPA 3.88 (3.75, 3.90, 3.93, 3,95)
sGPA 3.87
MCAT 1 attempt -512 130/126/129/127
Florida resident
White / Male / ORM
State school 2024 grad
Clinical:
~1600 hours as a medical assistant (on going 8 hours per week)
~300 hours as scribe (on going 24 hours per week)
~100 hours hospice volunteer during senior year of college
Shadowing:
~150 hours ortho, 35 hand surgery
Non Clinical:
~1100 hours at food pantry (on going 4 hours per week)
-80 hours ER patient transporter (on going 4 hours per week)
Research:
0 hours in a wet lab research
~50 hours clinical, 1 poster presentation and 1st author publication on a case report, looking to submit another soon
Awards:
Volunteer of the month at food pantry
Anything else:
First thank you for taking the time to read and respond I appreciate your help. I have what feels like cookie cutter activities/experiences and most of this has come from the past year. I did not participate and get involved in activities during undergrad the way I wish I had done. The only things that took place during undergrad are most of the shadowing, ~400 hours of being a medical assistant while home for the summer, and the hospice volunteering. Essentially everything else has been done since graduating last May. I am concerned that schools will look at my activities and wonder why I did not get involved in anything during my undergrad and I will not have a satisfactory answer. I know I should have gotten involved in things, I had opportunities to, but I did not, and I regret it.
My research is a weird topic. I did not do any wet lab type of research during undergrad but have gotten involved in some clinical research at my clinic. There was a topic I found interesting and figured out a way to write a case report on it by myself. I submitted and got the case report published recently but it was to a no name journal that looking back, after learning more about publications, was probably a predatory journal just looking for money. I have no idea how all of my research will be looked at and feel like it is not meaningful because I have seen so many other people with hundreds or thousands of hours of research with no publications or even posters, yet I have one of each with very limited time spent.
I applied last year to only MD schools and had 1 interview but was waitlisted. Looking back, I am not surprised I didn’t get an acceptance my application truly wasn’t that good. I feel better about it this year but am still very concerned about not getting an acceptance. I am applying very broadly to MD schools and will be adding DO schools this cycle. I am not sure which DO schools it would be worth applying to. Currently I have applied to: Nova, MSU, Oklahoma State, Rowan-Virtua, Ohio Heritage, Campbell, and PCOM. WAMC with these schools and are there any that I should be looking to add? Once again thank you for your time.
sGPA 3.87
MCAT 1 attempt -512 130/126/129/127
Florida resident
White / Male / ORM
State school 2024 grad
Clinical:
~1600 hours as a medical assistant (on going 8 hours per week)
~300 hours as scribe (on going 24 hours per week)
~100 hours hospice volunteer during senior year of college
Shadowing:
~150 hours ortho, 35 hand surgery
Non Clinical:
~1100 hours at food pantry (on going 4 hours per week)
-80 hours ER patient transporter (on going 4 hours per week)
Research:
0 hours in a wet lab research
~50 hours clinical, 1 poster presentation and 1st author publication on a case report, looking to submit another soon
Awards:
Volunteer of the month at food pantry
Anything else:
First thank you for taking the time to read and respond I appreciate your help. I have what feels like cookie cutter activities/experiences and most of this has come from the past year. I did not participate and get involved in activities during undergrad the way I wish I had done. The only things that took place during undergrad are most of the shadowing, ~400 hours of being a medical assistant while home for the summer, and the hospice volunteering. Essentially everything else has been done since graduating last May. I am concerned that schools will look at my activities and wonder why I did not get involved in anything during my undergrad and I will not have a satisfactory answer. I know I should have gotten involved in things, I had opportunities to, but I did not, and I regret it.
My research is a weird topic. I did not do any wet lab type of research during undergrad but have gotten involved in some clinical research at my clinic. There was a topic I found interesting and figured out a way to write a case report on it by myself. I submitted and got the case report published recently but it was to a no name journal that looking back, after learning more about publications, was probably a predatory journal just looking for money. I have no idea how all of my research will be looked at and feel like it is not meaningful because I have seen so many other people with hundreds or thousands of hours of research with no publications or even posters, yet I have one of each with very limited time spent.
I applied last year to only MD schools and had 1 interview but was waitlisted. Looking back, I am not surprised I didn’t get an acceptance my application truly wasn’t that good. I feel better about it this year but am still very concerned about not getting an acceptance. I am applying very broadly to MD schools and will be adding DO schools this cycle. I am not sure which DO schools it would be worth applying to. Currently I have applied to: Nova, MSU, Oklahoma State, Rowan-Virtua, Ohio Heritage, Campbell, and PCOM. WAMC with these schools and are there any that I should be looking to add? Once again thank you for your time.
