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Have you submitted your application?
Any involvement with SNMA or MAPS or similar premed mentorship for Black applicant's?
Any word back about interviews?
Any involvement with SNMA or MAPS or similar premed mentorship for Black applicant's?
Any word back about interviews?
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Fantastic. Go to recruitment events and get connected with SNMA chapters at the schools you want to go to. How much do you want your engineering background to be relevant to your studies? If the answer is very relevant, many engineering based medical programs exist (Carle Illinois, Texas ENMED) that you should look up, as well a others where there is an bioengineering program. With an early and strong application, you can be in high demand.
Are you looking at MD/PhD at all?
I asked because there are some good engineering focused MD/PhD programs including Harvard, USC/Caltech, UCLA/CalTech, Emory/Georgia Tech among others.
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If you haven't done so, leverage connections with NSBE and seek information from the SNMA. There are many organizations that mentor Black physicians that you will ultimately be connected to should you get admitted, so it doesn't hurt to meet them early (because you will meet them all eventually). It seems that you are open to private sector/medical affairs/medical innovation, so you may have a shortlist based on the work you have done.
More questions: Is your masters degree in engineering? What is your BCMP GPA? Stop believing your GPA is "too low"; as an engineer, you have a stellar/golden GPA. You have a golden ticket and should be able to call your shot. Make the schools recruit you.
More questions: Is your masters degree in engineering? What is your BCMP GPA? Stop believing your GPA is "too low"; as an engineer, you have a stellar/golden GPA. You have a golden ticket and should be able to call your shot. Make the schools recruit you.
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A couple things:
Regardless of how your application will be viewed from a diversity standpoint, it is a very solid one. You'd be towards the strong end of pack fodder at top-20 schools at the very worst; a couple years ago, we would have said you were not golden but platinum. Get some family practice shadowing in - it's one of the only weaknesses on an otherwise stellar app! Congratulations; you should be a strong applicant at every school in the country.
Secondly: there is some concern here. Although it's an excellent story and I'd like to think that schools didn't discriminate, they may. I don't know much about this, but if your illness is at all chronic or has flare-ups, I don't know how you would want to approach disclosing this. If it is at all progressive, another consideration. Consider also that the worst thing is not to fail to get into medical school due to the disease - it's more like completing medical school and being unable to practice in a residency, or getting partway through medical school and then needing to leave.
Throw some mid-tiers, your state schools, and HBCUs on as your safety schools and you're good to go - it's yours to lose.
Regardless of how your application will be viewed from a diversity standpoint, it is a very solid one. You'd be towards the strong end of pack fodder at top-20 schools at the very worst; a couple years ago, we would have said you were not golden but platinum. Get some family practice shadowing in - it's one of the only weaknesses on an otherwise stellar app! Congratulations; you should be a strong applicant at every school in the country.
Secondly: there is some concern here. Although it's an excellent story and I'd like to think that schools didn't discriminate, they may. I don't know much about this, but if your illness is at all chronic or has flare-ups, I don't know how you would want to approach disclosing this. If it is at all progressive, another consideration. Consider also that the worst thing is not to fail to get into medical school due to the disease - it's more like completing medical school and being unable to practice in a residency, or getting partway through medical school and then needing to leave.
Throw some mid-tiers, your state schools, and HBCUs on as your safety schools and you're good to go - it's yours to lose.
What’s changed in the past few years (re golden v platinum comment).
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The Supreme Court decision re. affirmative action. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, it may mean that URM status means less in admissions than it did a few years ago. That being said, OP...if we were being pessimistic you're pack fodder for top 20 schools. That's a very good place to be in - and it only goes up from there.
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