WAMC? Texas Resident ORM - 3.83/513 (retake)

[dekudoctor]

Hi all, I wanted to post my application on here and see what your thoughts are! I am a Texas resident and am only interested in applying TMDSAS MD. I know my MCAT is not that impressive. I got my score back yesterday and was a little disappointed as my FL avg was a 519, but I am not taking it a 3rd time, so I just have to roll with it. I want to get specific feedback on my chances at getting into schools like UTSW, BCM, and McGovern, as those are currently my top 3. I will be graduating in May and taking a gap year to round out my application and add more meaningful research to help with more research heavy schools such as UTSW and BCM. Here is a breakdown of my application:

Stats

• 3.83 cGPA, ~3.80 sGPA
• 1st MCAT - 507 (128/125/126/128)
• 2nd MCAT (retake) - 513 (128/127/128/130)
• Texas resident, White, and will be graduating in May from a large state school

Clinical Experience

• ~1100 hours: Medical scribe for Urology clinic (2 summers)
• No hours of clinical volunteering: I focused more of my time on non-clinical volunteering, will this hurt my application?

Research experience and productivity

• ~1000 hours: Undergraduate Research Assistant (no posters or pubs sadly)
• Currently planning to be working in a research lab during my gap year, and hopefully will yield more productivity than my undergrad position.

Shadowing experience and specialties represented

• 64 Hours: Pediatric Orthopedics
• 35 Hours: Orthopedic Surgery
• 20 Hours: Interventional Cardiology
• 26 Hours: Plastic Surgery
• 79 Hours: Emergency Medicine
• 30 Hours: Family Medicine

Non-clinical volunteering

• 200 Hours: Food bank volunteer (technically have more hours than this, but separated the volunteer coordinator hours into the extracurricular section)
• 53 Hours: Homeless shelter volunteer
• Planning to find another food bank/homeless shelter during gap year to regularly serve at

Other extracurricular activities

• 300+ Hours: Christian fraternity pledge trainer (spent 2 semesters leading and mentoring 100+ students)
• 400+ Hours: Christian fraternity member
• 200+ Hours: Food bank volunteer coordinator/service chair (was in charge of all service opportunities/volunteers for the christian fraternity and our associated philanthropy)
• ~150 Hours: Set and completed a goal to run a marathon within 6 months with no prior long distance running experience (thought this was a little unique, and I also have a story behind in concerning my health)
• ~200 Hours: Bible study/Life group leader
• ~100 Hours: Healthcare organization member

Relevant honors or awards

• Received community service scholarship my first semester of college (not sure if that is important or not)

School List

• UTSW
• BCM
• McGovern
• Texas A&M
• Dell
• UTMB
• University of Houston
• Long
• Texas Tech

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