DO DO school chances?

[DoctorHartman]

Applying next year

1. GPA: 3.3 - strong upward trend for the lat ~80 credits at 3.75
2. sGPA: 3.0
3. MCAT: 505 (126/126/126/127)
4. State: California (rip)
5. Race: half hispanic and half indian --> idk if it will be for or against me since i am half urm and half orm --> i am conversational in spanish but not fluent
6. Undergraduate institution: small private school in califonia
7. Clinical experience: 200 hours volunteering in emergency department
8. Research experience and productivity: I have worked in one lab for 3 1/2 years at the time of application. probably have about 1000 hours in the lab and its a pharmacy research lab. Also worked in another pharmacy research lab for about 120 hours. Have a couple local poster presentations and one national one. no pubs tho.
9. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: ~should have about 30 hours by the time of application
10. Non-clinical volunteering: will have about 100 hours of volunteering at a local homless shelter. Mostly serving minority communities.
11. Work: have worked at an it service desk for about 2 1/2 years. Probably have about 1500 hours or more there.
12. Other extracurricular activities/Hobbies:
    • basketball in a local rec league.
    • In the latin x club on campus
    • gaming - was top 100 in NA for a specific game but idk if i should even list this.
    • 3d modeling- i 3d model a bunch of objects for use in videogames and for educational use (again I am not sure if this is relevant?)
13. LOR: Was planning on getting one from my physics professor and another from my research professor

School list so far:
1. ATSU-Soma
2. AT still
3. Acom
4. BCOM
5. MSUCOM
6. Western
7. Ok state
8. LMU-DCOM
9. LuCOm

Are there any other DO schools I should be looking at? I was wondering if I have a shot at any MD school or has that ship already sailed? I live like 20 minutes from the Inland empire if that counts for UCR.

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[Faha]

MSUCOM and Oklahoma accept few non residents. I suggest these schools with your stats:
Western
TUNCOM
AZCOM
ATSU-SOMA
BCOM
ACOM
ARCOM
NYIT-Arkansas
UIWSOM
PCOM Georgia and South Georgia
UP-KYCOM
WVSOM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
DMU-COM
MU-COM

 

[samosamosa]

Since you're a CA resident I'd suggest to apply to all the UCs but I'm not sure if it's worth applying OOS MD. For DO, I agree with @Faha's list and would suggest adding RVUCOM.

I think you should definitely list your accomplishments in gaming as a hobby! It's something unique about you that would be interesting to talk about in interviews.

 

[Goro]

Applying next year

1. GPA: 3.3 - strong upward trend for the lat ~80 credits at 3.75
2. sGPA: 3.0
3. MCAT: 505 (126/126/126/127)
4. State: California (rip)
5. Race: half hispanic and half indian --> idk if it will be for or against me since i am half urm and half orm --> i am conversational in spanish but not fluent
6. Undergraduate institution: small private school in califonia
7. Clinical experience: 200 hours volunteering in emergency department
8. Research experience and productivity: I have worked in one lab for 3 1/2 years at the time of application. probably have about 1000 hours in the lab and its a pharmacy research lab. Also worked in another pharmacy research lab for about 120 hours. Have a couple local poster presentations and one national one. no pubs tho.
9. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: ~should have about 30 hours by the time of application
10. Non-clinical volunteering: will have about 100 hours of volunteering at a local homless shelter. Mostly serving minority communities.
11. Work: have worked at an it service desk for about 2 1/2 years. Probably have about 1500 hours or more there.
12. Other extracurricular activities/Hobbies:
    • basketball in a local rec league.
    • In the latin x club on campus
    • gaming - was top 100 in NA for a specific game but idk if i should even list this.
    • 3d modeling- i 3d model a bunch of objects for use in videogames and for educational use (again I am not sure if this is relevant?)
13. LOR: Was planning on getting one from my physics professor and another from my research professor

School list so far:
1. ATSU-Soma
2. AT still
3. Acom
4. BCOM
5. MSUCOM
6. Western
7. Ok state
8. LMU-DCOM
9. LuCOm

Are there any other DO schools I should be looking at? I was wondering if I have a shot at any MD school or has that ship already sailed? I live like 20 minutes from the Inland empire if that counts for UCR.

I can't recommend LUCOM and LMU
I suggest adding to your list:
all VCOMs
ICOM
all LECOMs
WVSOM
ACOM
KYCOM
UIW
both AR schools

For MD, try UCR, UCD and UCI, and IF you have a rising sGPA trend like your cGPAs, also
Oakland U Beaumont
Gtown
EVMS
Rush
SLU (maybe)
Loma Linda (only if you are SDA or a very devout Christian)
Loyola
Rosy Franklin
Seton Hall
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)