Hello! Needed some advice and didn’t know who else to ask, so thanks in advance!
1. cGPA: 3.97, sGPA: 4.0 (slight upward trend, only had some mistakes in my first year)
2. MCAT: 510 127/127/127/129
3. Residency: CA.
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Chinese (fluent in mandarin)
5. Undergraduate institution or category: CA state school (Biochemistry)
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
9. Non-clinical volunteering:
My main concern is my mcat score in addition to being an Asian in CA. I’m also not going to be able to apply DO this round since I didn’t count on it at the beginning and don’t have a recommendation from a DO physician. (In hindsight, I should’ve done this just to keep my options open) So would I have a fair chance at MDs this year or should I wait a year? Also, should I consider retaking the MCAT? I ended up only having three weeks to study for it due to health problems that happened, but I couldn’t really reschedule without either missing this cycle or being super late. Granted, I spent basically the whole three weeks on studying extra hard, and I’ve heard that a similar or worse MCAT is way worse. So I’m a bit on the fence for this. I'm kind of prepared for applying, but it's very costly, but I also don't want to wait a year if possible.
Current School List:
1. cGPA: 3.97, sGPA: 4.0 (slight upward trend, only had some mistakes in my first year)
2. MCAT: 510 127/127/127/129
3. Residency: CA.
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Chinese (fluent in mandarin)
5. Undergraduate institution or category: CA state school (Biochemistry)
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
- 250 hours as helper to patient care, as in keeping patients company, transporting them, and dealing with phone calls from family.
- 250 hours in one lab, no posters or pubs
- 300 hours in my second lab, one thesis, rec letter from PI
- 450 hours on a coding project, one presentation in an international conference, rec letter from PI
- 100 hours (Split between different specialties)
9. Non-clinical volunteering:
- 80 hours mentoring for a summer program
- 180 hours tutoring students during covid who were from low ses families
- 2000 hours Music (I play a lot of instruments but haven’t performed in any concerts or competitions)
- 50 hours Started a club for coding and engineering research opportunities and to have a way to keep track of funding from those projects officially.
- 150 hours Student officer for another club
My main concern is my mcat score in addition to being an Asian in CA. I’m also not going to be able to apply DO this round since I didn’t count on it at the beginning and don’t have a recommendation from a DO physician. (In hindsight, I should’ve done this just to keep my options open) So would I have a fair chance at MDs this year or should I wait a year? Also, should I consider retaking the MCAT? I ended up only having three weeks to study for it due to health problems that happened, but I couldn’t really reschedule without either missing this cycle or being super late. Granted, I spent basically the whole three weeks on studying extra hard, and I’ve heard that a similar or worse MCAT is way worse. So I’m a bit on the fence for this. I'm kind of prepared for applying, but it's very costly, but I also don't want to wait a year if possible.
Current School List:
- Wake Forest
- Albany
- Drexel
- george washington
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- tulane
- Penn State
- Hackensack
- Vermont
- Temple
- West Virginia
- Quinnipiac
- Oakland
- Wayne State
- Loyla
- UCLA
- UC Davis
- UC riverside
- CUSM
- U of Vermont
- Creighton
- NOVA
