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Thanks for looking.
I recently completed my M.S. degree at the University of Michigan with a solid GPA. Unfortunately, my undergraduate cGPA was a bit lower - approximately 3.5, and my undergraduate sGPA was around a 3.3 because I chose to work a lot rather than study. Sigh...
I just received a fairly balanced 36 on my MCAT. I also have one first-author publication, a second in submission, and numerous abstracts and posters at national and international conferences. I have about 150 clinical volunteering hours as an EKG technician, and I have done little physician shadowing.
I'm a Michigan resident and plan to apply to my state schools, a number of mid-tier schools, and maybe a few hopeful schools as well. Can anyone with some expertise give thoughts on my chances or point me toward programs that might be somewhat more forgiving of the low undergrad sGPA? Of course, baseless conjecture is welcomed as well!
Thanks for any help!
I would add University of Cincinnati, OSU and CMU.I recalculated my science GPA- I was slightly off:
Cumulative Undergrad = 3.5
Science Undergrad = 3.4
Graduate School (MS, with some alternate PhD classwork... long story)= 3.92
MCAT = 36
Michigan resident
Strong research background, published 1st author, hopefully another very soon.
Strong volunteer background with high patient contact
Strong leadership (RA for 2 years, others)
Hushcom informed me in his AMA thread that he would "[rate me] quite strongly." I'm only planning to apply to MD programs as I want to maintain a strong translational research focus throughout my career, and funding for DO-led research is especially poor right now.
Would this look like a reasonable (and perhaps a bit hopeful) school list? Are there any others you would recommend? I suspect I have a reasonable chance at each of my less-competitive in-state schools, so I don't think it makes a lot of sense to apply to many OOS safety schools- I wouldn't go OOS unless the program was significantly stronger. So, I focused primarily high- and mid-tier OOS programs.
Reach: University of Michigan, Dartmouth, Mayo, Brown, Duke, Baylor, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Case Western
Mid: Tufts, NYU, Einstein, Boston, Wake, Toledo, MC Wisconson, Wayne, Oakland, Western Michigan
Safety: Loyola, Drexel, NYMC, GWU, MSU
Thanks again!