Advice on making my app stronger
Hey everybody! I’m planning to apply this upcoming cycle, so I have some time to work on my application. Few main things I’m worried abt is lack of paid clinical hours, MCAT, and research experience. I’m an ORM applicant planning to apply through TMDSAS and some OOS options as well.
cGPA - 3.85
SGPA - 3.76
MCAT - 507
Non-Clinical Volunteering: 150 hours
Non-Clinical Paid: 500 (Projected to get to 1000)
Clinical Volunteering: 250 hours
Clinical Paid : 0
Research: 60 (projected to get to 250-300)
Shadowing: 200 ish
LOR: Stong LOR from one physician, one volunteer mentor, 2 BCPM professors, and HPAC committee letter
EC: Started medical non profit org at university and officer for medical-related org
Want to get an MA job as soon as i graduate and within the year work up to 500-750 clinical hours to make up for my low mcat. I also put my current pharm tech job as non-clinical cause I don’t believe it counts as clinical experience. I have been really anxious reading all the match day results from TMDSAS from people with much better stats than me. I really want to make my app as strong as possible before I apply and during the gap year, if anybody has any input it would be greatly appreciated. :)
Posted Feb 15, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC