WAMC/school list: Low gpa, mid MCAT CA ORM do I even have a chance anywhere??

[olololo3778]

Hello everyone, wanted to know if I have a chance anywhere this cycle or maybe I should take another year and boost my app with shadowing, volunteer, research, etc.

1. Undergrad cGPA: 3.2 AMCAS sGPA: 2.9 AACOMAS sGPA: 3.2
2. DIY postbacc 18 units sGPA: 3.8
3. MCAT
   1. 03/2020: 515 127/128/130/130
   2. 05/2022: 514 127/129/130/128
4. CA ORM resident East asian M
5. 2019 grad. 4 gap years before applying
6. California T5, national T20 undergrad
7. Clinical experience
   1. ED scribe ~1300 hrs
   2. EMT ~1500 hrs paid
   3. EMT ~300 hrs volunteer
      1. Covid testing/vaccine work
      2. Campus/event EMS during undergrad
   4. Dominican Republic medical volunteer ~40 hrs doing mobile clinic for a week in rural areas
8. Research: ZERO
9. Shadowing: ~40hrs virtual shadowing
10. Non-clinical
    1. Health advocate ~200 hrs
       1. Assist patients with public benefits at hospitals
       2. Some leadership experience as shift lead
    2. Teaching ~50 hrs
       1. Mentoring/tutoring at an elementary school after school program
11. Other EC: Emergency management club
    1. Training chief leading new member training with incident command, etc
12. Anything else you think might be important: WEAK to MID letters plus 4 gap years but not much to show for those years. School list is still pretty big and needs some narrowing down to a total of about 30 schools. Highly prefer coastal schools because I really like the water but realize I don't have much control/choice/chances due to my lackluster app.

Any advice is much appreciated!!


Tentative school list: DO

1. UNECOM
2. Western U
3. Western U OR
4. AT Still kirksville COM
5. AT Still SOM AZ
6. AZ COM Midwestern
7. Baptist university COM
8. Campbell univ jerry M Wallace SOM
9. Chicago COM midwestern u
10. DMU
11. Duquesne univ COM
12. Edward via COM Carolinas
13. Edward Via COM Louisiana
14. Edward Via COM Virginia
15. Lake Erie COM
16. Lake Erie COM bradenton (rotations supposedly bad)
17. Marian univ COM
18. NYIT COM long island and arkansas
19. Noorda COM
20. Ohio university heritage COM
21. Pacific northwest university of health sciences COM
22. PCOM georgia
23. Philadelphia COM
24. Rowan-virtua SOM
25. Touro COM NY
26. Touro COM CA
27. Touro COM NV
28. West virginia SOM

Tentative list: MD (definitely some reaches that I have zero chance of getting into but still wanted to apply because of location... who knows?)

1. UCSD
2. UC Davis
3. UCI
4. UC Riverside
5. Albany Medical College
6. CUSM
7. Central Michigan University
8. Charles R. Drew University
9. Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin
10. Drexel
11. Howard
12. Lewis Katz Temple
13. Medical College of Wisconsin
14. Meharry Medical College
15. Northeast Ohio Medical University
16. Tulane
17. Virginia Tech
18. Univ of Nevada, Reno

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[Faha]

Virtual shadowing has no value. You can subtract 50 hours from your ED scribing and include those hours as shadowing. You could receive interviews at some DO schools with your stats and I suggest these:
AZCOM
TUNCOM
UIWSOM
KCU-COM
ATSU (both schools)
MU-COM
CHSU-COM
NYITCOM (both schools)
LECOM (all schools)
PCOM (all schools)
WVSOM
UP-KYCOM
LMU-DCOM
WCU-COM
ACOM
ARCOM
Noorda-COM
Touro-Montana
Touro-NY
PNWU-COM
CCOM
DMU-COM
WESTERN
TUCOM-CA
DUQCOM
Your GPAs may be below the cutoff for CUSOM and the VCOMs.
MD schools are unlikely with your GPAs but you could try these:
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
California University
UC Riverside (only if you are from that region)
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
New York Medical College
Hackensack
Drexel
Temple
George Washington
NOVA MD
TCU
Creighton
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont

 

[Mr.Smile12]

You have a chance... if you have actual in-person shadowing (50 hours).

You need something that is not clinical-adjacent in your non-clinical volunteering. Food distribution, transportation services, job placement, shelter work, housing rehabilitation. I appreciate that you connect people TO those resources, but have you volunteered with them? Especially if you are shooting for community-focused schools, you will need a LOT of hours serving the community outside a clinical environment.

 

[olololo3778]

Virtual shadowing has no value. You can subtract 50 hours from your ED scribing and include those hours as shadowing. You could receive interviews at some DO schools with your stats and I suggest these:
AZCOM
TUNCOM
UIWSOM
KCU-COM
ATSU (both schools)
MU-COM
CHSU-COM
NYITCOM (both schools)
LECOM (all schools)
PCOM (all schools)
WVSOM
UP-KYCOM
LMU-DCOM
WCU-COM
ACOM
ARCOM
Noorda-COM
Touro-Montana
Touro-NY
PNWU-COM
CCOM
DMU-COM
WESTERN
TUCOM-CA
DUQCOM
Your GPAs may be below the cutoff for CUSOM and the VCOMs.
MD schools are unlikely with your GPAs but you could try these:
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
California University
UC Riverside (only if you are from that region)
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
New York Medical College
Hackensack
Drexel
Temple
George Washington
NOVA MD
TCU
Creighton
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont

Thank you for the input!

 

[olololo3778]

You have a chance... if you have actual in-person shadowing (50 hours).

You need something that is not clinical-adjacent in your non-clinical volunteering. Food distribution, transportation services, job placement, shelter work, housing rehabilitation. I appreciate that you connect people TO those resources, but have you volunteered with them? Especially if you are shooting for community-focused schools, you will need a LOT of hours serving the community outside a clinical environment.

Thank you for your advice!!