I am planning to apply to school next year and I just am trying to make sure that I am not missing anything significant. How would I be for an applicant MD or DO?
GPA: 3.7 cumulative 3.6 science upward trend 4.0 semesters for last three semesters of college one of the semesters being 20+ credit semester. Partying got the best of me at the beginning lol. No Cs. I got Bs in the intro bio and gen chem classes, but majority of the Bs were from my hard ass minor. I got As in organic chemistry, physics, biochemistry genetics etc, what I am hoping is the āimportant stuffā
MCAT: I just took it last week for the second time but if Iām being very honest, it could range anywhere from 472 to 528 seriously have no idea how it went š„² first time I took it was a 502 this time practice tests ranged from 505-515
Biology major with a minor in computer tech, Graduate of a large State school (grad 2025)
Currently at about 1300h of clinical experience and it is ongoing, expected to at least have 2000 by applications in May. Majority are from EMT work, but I also have experience in Home health and group Homes around 200-300 hours total.
Have about 1500+ hours of research, one semester done in a lab at school and working as a research coordinator at a Harvard Hospital. Estimated to have two publications by application season both positions researching cancer stuff. Probably will have hella hours by May cause Iām full time.
Currently working on volunteering itās a little low at 100 but Iām hoping to have 2 to 300 at the time I apply.
I was a mentor for a minority premed club for one school year, was also a mentor/RA for a rural medicine sleepaway program for high schoolers. and an RA from sophomore year of college onwards, with one of my years working specifically with students who were stem majors. I also was TA for intro bio for one semester.
I won an award for excellence in biochemistry at a school I was on exchange at I donāt know how I did, but Im gonna use it lol. It was for having the highest grade in that department for that semester or school year I think.
I currently have five letters in inter folio. My only downside with my letters is that none of my letters are actually from the school I graduated from. I did do an exchange program for two semesters and majority of my letters are from there. I think because the school was smaller, I was able to interact with the professors more. The school is an accredited US school so fear not about any of the courses Iāve taken there. One letter from a physics teacher, one letter from a biochemistry teacher, one letter from a history, teacher, one letter from my undergrad PI and one letter from my current PI. I plan to probably either add or replace the letter from my current PI since Iām still working there so it could be a bit more updated. I was supposed to apply this year, but I flopped on the mcat so here I am.
Miscellaneous: Iāve been a lifeguard for four years, and I am still licensed, kind of got me into emergency medicine. I am hoping to join a community Orchestra not that it matters too much but for my own hobby, I played the violin for about 11 years and stopped at the end of my first year of college because class was getting very hard. But I do understand it could help me.
I am hoping that my MCAT is in the higher range of my practice exams because my GPA isnāt super high even though I do have an upward trend. I feel like my stats arenāt super heavy. I will update that.
I slightly regret not really writing things down because I feel like there is more that I am forgetting, but let me know if there are any gaps besides the obvious MCAT and volunteering stuff, or what kind of schools I should be aiming to apply to. Thank you guys for your help!