Based on my stats and ECs should I even apply this cycle if I get a high MCAT or is it low likelihood of acceptance regardless? I graduate in 2 weeks so it would mean a second gap year, primarily to increase research and non-clinical volunteering I assume.
URM TMDSAS applicant
cGPA - 3.59 mild upward trend
SGPA- 3.47
Clinical: 2.5k+ hours scribing in 4 different EDs, 1 rural
Leadership: 250+ hours coaching for my university wrestling club team across 4 semesters
Non-clinical volunteering: 250+ hours being an assistant coach at my HS my freshman year. Can probably get like 100 or so hours of service after I take my MCAT before my score comes out but not sure if good idea because it’ll come off as obvious box checking.
Shadowing: 8 hours shadowing a PM&R pain management doc, and technically my first training shifts were shadowing ED docs
Research: 5 months in a neuroscience lab, not sure how to count the hours. Just joined the two weekly meetings, did GCP training, got trained on how to take participants, and wrote a literature review comparing two different modalities for the device we were testing but that wasn’t submitted anywhere. Also did some one off data sorting thing. Maybe like 100 hours?
LORs: 2 science professors and 1 physician letter
Was planning on applying to only Texas schools if I got a 515 or higher.
