TMDSAS Reapplication Help

[MaybeMatriculant]

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[SpoiledMilk]

This is going to be blunt and hopefully you don't take it the wrong way and see it as a way change course to be more successful for your reapp.

What TMDSAS Adcoms likely saw in your app: You are the child of a general surgeon. Therefore, in the minds of most if not all of the TMDSAS Adcoms that saw your app, you are very privileged. The fact that you have 1000s of hours of weightlifting and have the ability to spend nearly 100 hours building cryto-mining rigs while spending only 171 hours in clinical volunteering and 80 hours non-clinical volunteering speak to this privilege. What they see upon dissecting your app is someone applying with the run of the mill, check the boxes kinds of ECs, is not very serious about medschool, and is likely applying only because of parental pressure. During your 2 interviews, you likely came across as someone not serious about really wanting to go to medschool because your ECs tell the story of someone who wants to just cruise.

What you need to do before your reapp: Research the GPAs of the TMDSAS matriculants. Yours is not competitive. You might need to do a DIY PB to increase the GPAs. Therefore, you will need to consider not applying again in May and take a gap year. You don't need to retake your MCAT. You have too many hours shadowing non PCP physicians. I suggest you find a PCP and get 25-30 hours (the more the better) of shadowing and on your reapp, replace one of the surgeons you shadowed with the PCP hours. You also need to continue with you clinical volunteering to increase the hours during this gap year and get your hands dirty and get yourself out of your comfort zone by volunteering in a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen where you will be interacting with people less fortunate than you.

 

[MaybeMatriculant]

This is going to be blunt and hopefully you don't take it the wrong way and see it as a way change course to be more successful for your reapp.

What TMDSAS Adcoms likely saw in your app: You are the child of a general surgeon. Therefore, in the minds of most if not all of the TMDSAS Adcoms that saw your app, you are very privileged. The fact that you have 1000s of hours of weightlifting and have the ability to spend 100s of hours building cryto-mining rigs while spending only 171 hours in clinical volunteering and 80 hours non-clinical volunteering speak to this privilege. What they see upon dissecting your app is someone applying with the run of the mill, check the boxes kinds of ECs, is not very serious about medschool, and is likely applying only because of parental pressure. During your 2 interviews, you likely came across as someone not serious about really wanting to go to medschool because your ECs tell the story of someone who wants to just cruise.

What you need to do before your reapp: Research the GPAs of the TMDSAS matriculants. Yours is not competitive. You might need to do a DIY PB to increase the GPAs. Therefore, you will need to consider not applying again in May and take a gap year. You don't need to retake your MCAT. You have too many hours shadowing non PCP physicians. I suggest you find a PCP and get 25-30 hours (the more the better) of shadowing and on your reapp, replace one of the surgeons you shadowed with the PCP hours. You also need to continue with you clinical volunteering to increase the hours during this gap year and get your hands dirty and get yourself out of your comfort zone by volunteering in a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen where you will be interacting with people less fortunate than you.

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[SpoiledMilk]

TMDSAS schools love high GPAs. The data it provides every year shows. You will get more IIs from TMDSAS schools with a 3.8+/509 than a 3.6+/512 as long as your ECs are good. If you were planning to apply out of state, then I would recommend a MCAT retake, but not if only applying to TMDSAS and staying instate, you just need higher GPAs than what you currently have.

Continue to rack up the clinical volunteering because generally, the basic minimum is 200. As a reapp it's another hurdle so you will need more to show that you are serious and committed by getting more hours.