where do I stand

[w110djj]

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hello everyone ,
I was wondering if I could gain some insight into where I stand as a applicant in a year. I will be a fifth year senior next year in the fall. I currently have a 3.4 gpa and a bit higher regular gpa. I kno i need to get a great MCAT score and raise my gpa a little. I was told to get at least a 28 for allopathic schools. I was in the military for 3 years the infantry to be precise. Upon geting accepted to med school I want to reenter the military with a HPSP scholarship. here is my deliemma. I have changed my major a few times which has set me back. due to a few things, transfering schools once. major was exercise physiology/ pre med. got hurt in the army and switched to a school that only had biological sciences. Then said hey a nursing degree would put me into the medical feild already with some knowledge . After about of year of getting A's in all nursing classes realized that the thought process and generally some of the views of nursing did not fit the "Doctor " mentality at all. and realiZed I would still have to take all the pre reqs. Thus after talking to my advisor I withdrew from all nursing classes becasue she said they would not count towards graduation credits and went back to biological sciences/ excercise biology. extra curriculars.+ work 45 hours a week(non medical field), undergraduate teaching assistant for anatomy/ physiology, several missions in the army including Iraq and louisana for hurricane Katrina . Still going to get vol and research.

So my questions are:

1.)Are the 5 withdraws going to drastically hurt my chances of entering medical school.

2.) I am gong to apply to medical school at my school MD (wright state university) but also apply at several DO schools as well........thought and comments appreciated.

thank you everyone for comments / opinions

 

[Mobius1985]

A 3.7 and 29 are the mean stats for Wright State's med school acceptees. Since your application GPA will be lower than that, your MCAT score needs to be correspondingly higher.

I doubt the Ws will hold you back as you have a good explanation, but you will be asked about it.

Your military service will have provided you with leadership opportunities, so be sure to mention them in the narrative portion where you list this activity. In my opinion all voluntary miliary service should count as community service, too, but I don't think adcomms look at it that way. The Katrina work you did should be highlighted though.

You have something to list under teaching/mentoring. Yes, you need clinical experience and community service. Research is elective, but highly desirable. I have a friend with much higher stats than yours who was rejected from Wright because he only had three months of clinical volunteering and one month of research (in progress). He did get in the following year with an additional year of each on his application.

Including DO schools on your application list is a great idea to improve your chances of an acceptance in the first cycle.