MD & DO What are my chances?

[watermelon.hammock]

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GPA 3.3
MCAT 504

Volunteered 1 year Brigham and Women’s
and for New York Cares at Xavier Mission Letters of recommendations from Psychology PI/Professor, Neurologist @ Boston Medical Center/Neurology Professor, Neuroscience Professor and founder of multiple FDA approved medical device companies, and Weill Cornell Medicine-NYP Director of Hematology & Oncology
Interned for Healthtech startup for Alzheimer’s, Neurocomputational/cognitive visual Lab
Worked 2 years for Weill Cornell Medicine as clinical study coordinator

What would be chances for US Med schools but specifically for Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore?

 

[tantacles]

GPA 3.3
MCAT 504

Volunteered 1 year Brigham and Women’s
and for New York Cares at Xavier Mission Letters of recommendations from Psychology PI/Professor, Neurologist @ Boston Medical Center/Neurology Professor, Neuroscience Professor and founder of multiple FDA approved medical device companies, and Weill Cornell Medicine-NYP Director of Hematology & Oncology
Interned for Healthtech startup for Alzheimer’s, Neurocomputational/cognitive visual Lab
Worked 2 years for Weill Cornell Medicine as clinical study coordinator

What would be chances for US Med schools but specifically for Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore?

I can't speak to your chances at Duke-NUS in Singapore, but I can say that with your stats, it will likely be an uphill climb to get acceptance into an MD school. A GPA of 3.3 is pretty low, and an MCAT of 504 paired with it will make it difficult to get interviews as you're likely to be screened out of most schools for both of those scores. DO schools are within range.

Your experiences seem robust and may give you some headway, but I think without GPA repair and retaking the MCAT and getting a substantially better score you're unlikely to be accepted to any MD school.

 

[Faha]

Where is your state of residence ? Are you URM ?

 

[watermelon.hammock]

Where is your state of residence ? Are you URM ?

I am currently working in NYC but originally from Indonesia

 

[watermelon.hammock]

I can't speak to your chances at Duke-NUS in Singapore, but I can say that with your stats, it will likely be an uphill climb to get acceptance into an MD school. A GPA of 3.3 is pretty low, and an MCAT of 504 paired with it will make it difficult to get interviews as you're likely to be screened out of most schools for both of those scores. DO schools are within range.

Your experiences seem robust and may give you some headway, but I think without GPA repair and retaking the MCAT and getting a substantially better score you're unlikely to be accepted to any MD school.

Do you think taking postbac classes in the subjects I struggled the most (i.e. general chemistry) and showing I improved with my grades when I took it in undergrad would help?

 

[Faha]

I am currently working in NYC but originally from Indonesia

You could receive interviews at many DO schools and I suggest all these:
NYIT-COM
PCOM
LECOM (all schools)
MU-COM
VCOM (all schools)
UP-KYCOM
WVSOM
ARCOM
ACOM
BCOM
UIWSOM
Apply in June and submit all your secondaries by July.

 

[tantacles]

Do you think taking postbac classes in the subjects I struggled the most (i.e. general chemistry) and showing I improved with my grades when I took it in undergrad would help?

Taking a post-bacc will help as it will increase your GPA. If you were to take all of the pre-requisites again in a post-bacc and get all A's as well as take the MCAT again and do well, your chances of getting in would improve significantly.

 

[potential_fut_doc]

Agree with the above poster, a post-bacc with good grades to boost that GPA can make all the difference. At least it did for many friends of mine.

 

[puahate]

DO is doable.

MD is an uphill battle for low tier

 

[Pharaoh95]

You're throwing out a lot of fancy names but the foundation of your application, your academics, are very weak. Quick google search shows a 3.63 average gpa and 512 average MCAT for Duke-NUS. Your best bet is to apply DO.

 

[potential_fut_doc]

You're throwing out a lot of fancy names but the foundation of your application, your academics, are very weak. Quick google search shows a 3.63 average gpa and 512 average MCAT for Duke-NUS. Your best bet is to apply DO.

Unless he can add something crazy to his application like "I Published 6 papers that I was the first author"