MD & DO REAPP: MI resident, 3.65/3.67, 33

Hey SDN,

I'm creating this WAMC thread for a friend (and no, the "friend" is not me :laugh:). I've compiled this MD and DO list for him, and I'd love it if y'all could toss in your $0.02.

Thanks friends!


GPA - AMCAS; he attended "public ivy" and graduated last month

• Science: 3.67
• Non-Science: 3.61
• Cumulative: 3.65

MCAT - 33 (11PS, 9V, 13BS)

Activities
Medical:

• Patient Attendant U-M Hospital: fulltime, 2 summers*
• VA Hospital Volunteer: >300 hours*
• Adult Psychiatry Patient Attendant: ~250 hours
• Physician Shadowing: ~25 hours (1 ER doc, getting more this summer)
• CNA: 100 hours and counting (just started last month after graduation)

Research:

• 1 year in neurodegenerative diseases (no pubs)

Non-medical:

• Genetics Study Group Leader: >250 hours over multiple semesters*
• IM Sports: 4 years, 3 sports
• Genetics Study Group Course Leader (in charge of all study group leaders for the course)
• After School Tutor (Volunteer)
• Student Painters Internship: 1 summer
• Nightclub Doorstaff

He applied last cycle without any research and less volunteering. He received invites from Wayne St and CMU, but was waitlisted for both of them. He just got the CNA license in January, and he'll be a CNA this gap year with continued volunteering and shadowing. He's looking to stay in the midwest but is open to options across the country.

The list I've come up with (updated 6/3 14:46):
IS:

1. UMich (reach)
2. MSU – MD
3. CMU
4. Wayne St
5. WMU

Private Jesuits (>10 years of Catholic schooling; will be mentioned in secondaries):

1. Loyola
2. Creighton
3. SLU
4. GT (not GW, whoops)

Others:

1. CWRU (reach, but his entire family/he is from Cleveland until he moved)
2. Rush
3. Rosalind Franklin
4. MCW
5. USUHS
6. Tulane
7. TCMC
8. Drexel
9. Cincy
10. OSU

DOs:

1. MSU - DO
2. KCUMB (Kansas City)
3. OU-HCOM (Ohio)
4. CCOM (Chicago)
   
5. MU-COM (Marian)
6. DMU-COM (Des Moines)
7. ATSU-KCOM (Kirksville)

Thoughts? Too many DOs? Bad choices for DOs (I don't know much about them)? Too many safety and/or not enough reach schools?