WAMC & School List Help Trad URM

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Hi everyone! Just received my MCAT score today and feel completely deflated. Was hoping to find out how realistic applying this cycle is going to be. Was planning on applying to all the MDs in my state but now know that is unrealistic so hoping to just focus on DOs this cycle unless there’s 1 or 2 MDs I could have any tiny slim chance at. Thanks for any advice, it’s been a rough day after getting my score so all is appreciated.

Traditional Applicant
(going into my Senior year of undergrad)

GPA

3.52 GPA; should be up to 3.6 by end of summer but I plan on applying by end of June so not sure if classes I’m taking now will count?

MCAT

497 (122/127/123/125)

Biographical

FL resident; Lived in New York for a couple years.

Hispanic Woman (21 y/o)

Health Science Major with Women’s Studies Minor (a lot of my extracurriculars are women’s health focused)

Experience

Clinical experience (550 hours)

• 200 Hours as CNA at local hospital
• 250 Hours as CNA at Plastic Surgery Clinic at my Uni (mainly work with breast reconstruction cancer patients which im very passionate about)

Research (~260 hours)

• Metabolic Syndrome in Post-Menopausal Women (200 hours)
• Currently working on my Honors thesis with Doula Experience in Florida (~60 hours by application)

Shadowing (~35 hours)

• (15 hours) Orthopedic Surgeon
• (20 hours) Emergency Department
• Not sure if all the chaperoning that I participate in my job at the plastic surgery clinic will count? Since most the surgeons are males, I usually have to stand in when they’re doing exams or procedures.

Volunteering (200 hours)

• Tutoring Spanish Speaking Migrant Children (100 Hours)
• Tutoring & mentoring local community middle school girls (50 hours)
• Mentoring underclassmen / Freshman women who want to pursue medicine (50 hours)

Letters of Rec

• 1 from Pathophysio Professor
• 1 from Physics Professor
• 1 from Women’s Studies professor & advisor
• 1 from Plastic Surgeon (MD) at my Work

AMWA (American Medical Women’s Association)

• 1 Year Fundraising Chair
• 2 Years Treasurer

Hispanic Student Association

Latino Medical Student Association

Children Beyond Our Borders

• Org that I tutored migrant children through.

Girls Can Do It Too

• Local org that I love where I tutor & mentor middle and high school girls through.

Thank you again! I’m really interested in OBGYN and just women’s health in general. Any help is greatly appreciated. Also, my dad went to NYIT and I really love it, so hearing if I even have any chance would be great. Really wish my MCAT didn’t turn out this way but it is what it is. I was taking max credit course including physics and biochem, all while working & extracurriculars when trying to study for it so please don’t be too mean.

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You could receive interviews at some DO schools with a MCAT of 497 and I suggest all these:
BCOM (both schools)
OCOM
LECOM (all schools-may be a 2nd one in Florida)
LMU-DCOM (all schools)
PCOM (all schools)
ACOM
WCU-COM
VCOM (all schools)
UIWSOM
TUNCOM
WVSOM
UP-KYCOM
MU-COM
DUQCOM
ILLINOIS-COM (new school)
KHSC-COM
NOORDA-COM
BUCOM
ARCOM
NYIT-AR
Many of these schools have MCAT medians in the 498 to 502 range so you should receive interviews. Let us know a year from now how your application cycle works out.