WAMC (Re-applicant from states)

[premed-dodo]

Please be completely honest. Thank you! I'm not quite sure how to improve my application.

ORM, SES disadvantaged (CA resident)
cGPA: 2.76, sGPA: 2.87 (Post-bacc: 4.0, full-time for several years)
SMP GPA: 3.67
MCAT: 519

IA: Academic dismissal halfway through undergraduate, went through readmissions process

Clinical:
• MA, scribe & manager for internal medicine: ~4000 hours
• MA urology: ~1500 hours

Research:
• Pancreatic cancer wet lab research (no publication/poster): ~900 hours
• Oncology database clinical research (no publication/poster): ~300 hours

Other:
• Global Medical Brigades (leadership): ~600 hours + 240 hours (as non-leader)
• Tutor (for economics/physics): ~2000 hours
• Homeless volunteering: ~2700 hours (over so many years)
• Undergrad hiphop club founder (leadership): ~1200 hours
• Undergrad cultural club (leadership): ~1000 hours

3 new EC's for the upcoming application process: EMT, additional homeless volunteering at an organization, and Toastmaster's.

This is upcoming cycle is my 2nd cycle. 1st cycle was all rejections with exception of 1 post-II WL. I would take more post-bacc classes to raise my GPA, but I literally ran out of hard science classes to take at the institution I did my post-bacc in. I took every single upper division and prerequisite courses I possibly could. I would have to go to another institution to keep raising my GPA.

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[Faha]

Where is your state of residence ?

 

[premed-dodo]

Where is your state of residence ?

California. I'll add it in via edit.

 

[Faha]

I suggest these MD schools with your stats:
California University
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Riverside (if you are from that region)
Kaiser
Creighton
TCU
St. Louis
Loyola
Rush
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Tulane
Miami
Emory
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Georgetown
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Also apply to DO schools and I suggest these:
WESTERN
TUCOM-CA
TUNCOM
AZCOM
CCOM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
DMU-COM
UIWSOM
ACOM
WCU-COM
MU-COM
NOVA
WVSOM
PCOM (all schools)
LECOM (all schools)
Touro-NY
NYITCOM

 

[MrPuff]

Kudos on the 14,440 hours of work and ECs!

 

[premed-dodo]

Kudos on the 14,440 hours of work and ECs!

I worked and did activities non-stop, I just wish I took care of my academics from the beginning. Do you think I would be a competitive applicant? I am still WL this cycle but, to be honest, I thought I would get on somewhere at least. I applied broadly.

 

[premed-dodo]

I suggest these MD schools with your stats:
California University
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Riverside (if you are from that region)
Kaiser
Creighton
TCU
St. Louis
Loyola
Rush
Medical College Wisconsin
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Tulane
Miami
Emory
Wake Forest
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Georgetown
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Also apply to DO schools and I suggest these:
WESTERN
TUCOM-CA
TUNCOM
AZCOM
CCOM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
DMU-COM
UIWSOM
ACOM
WCU-COM
MU-COM
NOVA
WVSOM
PCOM (all schools)
LECOM (all schools)
Touro-NY
NYITCOM

Thank you for the advice!

 

[MrPuff]

I worked and did activities non-stop, I just wish I took care of my academics from the beginning. Do you think I would be a competitive applicant? I am still WL this cycle but, to be honest, I thought I would get on somewhere at least. I applied broadly.

I'm really not able to advise anyone on their probability of getting accepted. Your ECs, from my perspective, look really good and your MCAT is very good. I've read on this site that some schools appreciate those that reinvent themselves - which you appear to have done. It seems like you should have a shot at either DO schools or perhaps the lower-tier MD schools. You've gotten feedback from Faha and he's highly regarded on this site so I'd certainly follow his advice. Best of luck.

 

[premed-dodo]

I'm really not able to advise anyone on their probability of getting accepted. Your ECs, from my perspective, look really good and your MCAT is very good. I've read on this site that some schools appreciate those that reinvent themselves - which you appear to have done. It seems like you should have a shot at either DO schools or perhaps the lower-tier MD schools. You've gotten feedback from Faha and he's highly regarded on this site so I'd certainly follow his advice. Best of luck.

Thank you! I'll definitely use the school list he provided! I guess all I can do is ask for feedback from specific schools and prepare my reapplication.