WAMC/ School List Help Texas TX ORM 4.0/517

[JAGMAN420]

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS 4.0/4.0 (according to TMDSAS looking online seems the same for AMCAS
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown 517 (130/129/130/128)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US) TX
4. Ethnicity and/or race Asian Indian
5. Undergraduate institution or category Texas State School
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   1. Hospice Volunteer 500hrs
   2. Patient access Rep 660 hrs (Not super clinical but would go to patient rooms and speak with them while registering them)
   3. Clinical Reserach Assistant 300 hrs (double dipped in tmdsas)
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. Autism Reserach 440hrs no pubs
   2. Clinical Research Assistant (Double in TMDSAS)
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. 40 hrs Psych shadowing (got to take a role in procedures such as ECT)
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. Academic Tutor 300hrs
   2. Foster Home Volunteer 10hrs
   3. Covid Relief Volunteer 10 hrs
   4. Hopsice Volunteer (DD in TX)
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. Premed Org fundraising chair
    2. Service Org department lead
    3. Service org event coordinator
    4. Religious teacher
    5. Weightlifting
    6. Car Enthusiest (love fixing wrecked cars)
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Deans List ⅚ semesters
    2. On academic scholarship
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important
    1. TBH really want to stay in TX but after finding out about yield protection and lowkey getting worried I want to apply to some OOS state too just in case ( around 10 maybe) No strong connections OOS some family in Georgia and Chicago

Here are some schools that seemed okay:
Georgetown
Vanderbilt
Miami
Pitt
Tufts
Tulane
Virginia

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[Faha]

Your Texas MD schools will not "yield protect" so apply to all of them and you should receive interviews.
OOS MD schools interview few Texas applicants since they know from years of experience that Texas applicants will attend a Texas school.
For AMCAS schools you could try TCU and Tulane.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

1. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. Academic Tutor 300hrs
   2. Foster Home Volunteer 10hrs
   3. Covid Relief Volunteer 10 hrs
   4. Hopsice Volunteer (DD in TX)

Tutoring will be counted separately as tutoring/teaching and does not show "service orientation" unlike your work with your foster home and possibly the COVID relief volunteer (need details). With 20 hours of non-clinical service orientation activities, your application is at risk of being screened out in most schools' admissions processes.

For sure you have a great shot within Texas as long as you address "service orientation" in how you have made an impact to marginalized communities outside of the clinic. Mission fit is going to be important, so I'm guessing the research-focused Texas schools may show some interest.

 

[LloydChristmasMD]

You have a strong chance at your state schools, much stronger than OOS. Maybe quite not as strong at UTSW or Baylor given your research and non-clinical volunteering, but also not DOA. Plus, you’ll save a ton of money.

 

[JAGMAN420]

Tutoring will be counted separately as tutoring/teaching and does not show "service orientation" unlike your work with your foster home and possibly the COVID relief volunteer (need details). With 20 hours of non-clinical service orientation activities, your application is at risk of being screened out in most schools' admissions processes.

For sure you have a great shot within Texas as long as you address "service orientation" in how you have made an impact to marginalized communities outside of the clinic. Mission fit is going to be important, so I'm guessing the research-focused Texas schools may show some interest.

Thank you for the insight do you have any AMCAS schools you would recommend?

 

[MyOdyssey]

UVA likes out of state applicants with very high stats.
Tulane accepts a lot of Texans.
I believe TCU is a AMCAS MD program.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thank you for the insight do you have any AMCAS schools you would recommend?

You have a lot of OOS suggestions but I choose based on networking and mission fit, which you have not made clear.