Hello all,
This isn't a neuroticism post, this is an advice post. I'm trying to build my school list and I'm not sure if I should be applying mostly low/mid/high. With my stats I'm basically guaranteed an interview at my state schools, but I have zero direction where to apply beyond those. I want to apply strictly MD because I have 0 experience with DO's so I wouldn't be able to write about it well in a DO application. I also don't know if I'm disadvantaged so I would appreciate some input about it.
TIA
This isn't a neuroticism post, this is an advice post. I'm trying to build my school list and I'm not sure if I should be applying mostly low/mid/high. With my stats I'm basically guaranteed an interview at my state schools, but I have zero direction where to apply beyond those. I want to apply strictly MD because I have 0 experience with DO's so I wouldn't be able to write about it well in a DO application. I also don't know if I'm disadvantaged so I would appreciate some input about it.
TIA
- GPA: Biological sci associates, bachelor's and master's (3.5/3.92/3.98), Engineering master's (3.5)
- MCAT with breakdown: 515 (129/128/130/128)
- state: NV
- Ethnicity: ORM
- Disadvantaged: Not sure about this, I had a rough home life and dropped out of H.S. as a sophomore and I'm a disabled veteran (should I even mention these?)
- Undergraduate institution: T200/T40
- Clinical experience
- MA (1600 hrs) ongoing
- Army CLS (Combat Life Saver) for infantry team (deployed hours (Iraq) 3,500)
- Research experience
- 6,000 (pubs/presentations/conferences/posters/awards/etc)
- Shadowing
- ~150 (primary/sports med)
- Non-clinical volunteer
- Academic Bootcamps (60)
- Engineering club volunteer at local school (100)
- Clinical Volunteering
- Unhoused clinic (~200)
- Leadership Experience
- Infantry Fire Team Leader (2,500)
- Teaching Experience
- Graduate TA (4,500)
- Gen chem, Ochem, Mol bio lab, Biochem lab
- Graduate TA (4,500)
- Immediate family in medicine: no
- Specialty of Interest: EM/Primary
- Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Y
- Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): Y
- Other EC
- Worked in a kitchen as a line cook (2,000)
- Worked as a geology tech staking mining claims and fencing off abandoned mines on BLM land (600)
- Skydiving/Base jumping
- Snowboarding