WAMC: Texas URM with high GPA and low MCAT

[orev55]

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EDIT: I am very grateful to say that I had 7 total interviews with 1 pre-match offer despite the low CARS score
EDIT 2: I am now at the end of my cycle with a total of 8 interview invitations and 3 acceptances. I never expected this outcome, and for anyone reading this in the future, know that your score is not the only way to show that you are capable!


Hi everyone, I just got my MCAT score today and it was way lower than my FL averages. My TMDSAS application will be complete in the next few days now that my score has been released, and I would like to have realistic expectations about what to do from here.

• State: Texas
• Ties to other states: No
• URM: Yes (Mexican American)
• Year in school: senior; will graduate May 2022 from a state school
• Major: Microbiology
• Minors: Spanish, Chemistry
• cGPA: 3.97 TMDSAS, 3.90 AMCAS
• sGPA: 3.94 TMDSAS, 3.87 AMCAS
• MCAT: 504 (126/123/127/128)
• Research Experience: about 700 hours in 1 lab. Started September 2018; I have LOR from my PI
  • 1 pub (4th author), 2 posters, 1 award
• Clinical experience:
  • Medical assistant- 340 hours from working during part of each summer since 2018
  • Hospice- 100 hours, started June 2019
  • Free clinic- 50 hours, started December 2018
• Shadowing: 20 hours across 3 specialties
• Non-clinical volunteering:
  • Crisis Text Line- 120 hours since December 2019
  • Baking organization for the homeless
• Awards
  • 2 scholarships; 1 from the biology department, 1 I received as an incoming freshman
  • award for presentation through summer pre-med internship
• Leadership:
  • Sunday school teacher since August 2018
  • Mentor for freshman students since May 2019
  • President of a service organization; we make and hand out desserts to the homeless during free meal events
    • Member since September 2018, Vice President from 2020-2021, President for 2021-2022 academic year
• Other EC's: summer pre-med internship through a state medical school, and I enjoy horseback riding, crochet, and hand sewing
• Areas of interest: border health, rural health, primary care, psychiatry
• Medical school list (only applied TMDSAS so far):
  • Baylor
  • UT Long San Antonio
  • McGovern
  • Texas A&M
  • Texas Tech El Paso
  • Texas Tech Lubbock
  • UH College of Medicine
  • UT Austin Dell
  • UTMB
  • UTRGV
  • UT Southwestern

 

[Faha]

You should receive multiple interviews from your Texas schools. The Texas schools like high GPAs. Are there any other areas of the country that interest you besides Texas ?

 

[orev55]

I'd like to stay as close to Texas as possible, but I have lived in Louisiana before. My family and I left after hurricane Katrina, but I'm not sure if this is a strong enough tie since they accept very little OOS. Would it be worth it to apply via AMCAS this year? I don't want to limit my opportunities, but the low MCAT is making me less hopeful.

 

[Med 2021]

Hi everyone, I just got my MCAT score today and it was way lower than my FL averages. My TMDSAS application will be complete in the next few days now that my score has been released, and I would like to have realistic expectations about what to do from here.

• State: Texas
• Ties to other states: No
• URM: Yes (Mexican American)
• Year in school: senior; will graduate May 2022 from a state school
• Major: Microbiology
• Minors: Spanish, Chemistry
• cGPA: 3.97 TMDSAS, 3.90 AMCAS
• sGPA: 3.94 TMDSAS, 3.87 AMCAS
• MCAT: 504 (126/123/127/128)
• Research Experience: about 700 hours in 1 lab. Started September 2018; I have LOR from my PI
  • 1 pub (4th author), 2 posters, 1 award
• Clinical experience:
  • Medical assistant- 340 hours from working during part of each summer since 2018
  • Hospice- 100 hours, started June 2019
  • Free clinic- 50 hours, started December 2018
• Shadowing: 20 hours across 3 specialties
• Non-clinical volunteering:
  • Crisis Text Line- 120 hours since December 2019
  • Baking organization for the homeless
• Awards
  • 2 scholarships; 1 from the biology department, 1 I received as an incoming freshman
  • award for presentation through summer pre-med internship
• Leadership:
  • Sunday school teacher since August 2018
  • Mentor for freshman students since May 2019
  • President of a service organization; we make and hand out desserts to the homeless during free meal events
    • Member since September 2018, Vice President from 2020-2021, President for 2021-2022 academic year
• Other EC's: summer pre-med internship through a state medical school, and I enjoy horseback riding, crochet, and hand sewing
• Areas of interest: border health, rural health, primary care, psychiatry
• Medical school list (only applied TMDSAS so far):
  • Baylor
  • UT Long San Antonio
  • McGovern
  • Texas A&M
  • Texas Tech El Paso
  • Texas Tech Lubbock
  • UH College of Medicine
  • UT Austin Dell
  • UTMB
  • UTRGV
  • UT Southwestern

Hi,
My GPA 3.9; MCAT 509 applied last year, got 2 interviews (UTMB, & Texas Tech Lubbock) pre-matched UTMB. You should apply to all Texas med schools (UNT, UH...)

 

[futuredocn]

This gives me so much hope. Thank you!