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I recommend: I recommend: Temple EVMS Emory Jefferson U VM Miami Drexel Albany Tufts TCU Your state schools (but SIU only if you're from southern IL) Skip UI-Carle. They like engineeers Rush Loyola Rosy Franklin Tulane Wake MCW SLU Creighton Wayne State Netter NovaMD NYU.LI Gtown GWU NOTE...

You will also need to Shadow a clinician, and have non-clinical volunteering experience.

Clinical experience can be either work or volunteer.

As the MCAT is a career deciding high-stakes exam, you should only take it when you are 100% ready. That means taking it even if you have to delay an app cycle. Medical schools aren't going anywhere

Just out of curiosity, is this you?

Some types of volunteer activities are more appealing than others. Volunteering in a nice suburban hospital is all very well and good and all but doesn't show that you're willing to dig in and get your hands dirty in the same way that working with the developmentally disabled (or homeless, the...

That's not an issue. You won't be hurt lacking a DO LOR, but having one always helps

This is logistics, nothing more.

I don't think that you need a postback period you've displayed reinvention. Ask your old school if you can retroactively withdraw from your failing courses

I have to admit that another SDNer use the term before I did. Somewhere in the past in these fora is an actual list of Goroisms!

Reinvention? Or a significantly poor SR year? What was the cause of the poor academics?

Yes, but there are plenty of med schools that reward reinvention

Always go for the free ride. Your 50 year old self will thank you

That terrible senior year GPA is not going to DO you any favors with do schools.