<p>1) What is your legal state of residence?</p>
<p>2) Have you applied for your committee letter at UR? (Deadline was mid-March. You may still be able to request one if you pay a extra fee, but your letter will be completed only after all other letter requests which were submitted on time. Last year committee letters didn’t go out until mid-August.) Med schools know UR uses a committee letter and it will raise questions about your application if you don’t submit one. </p>
<p>3) Have you computed your AACOMAS GPA/sGPA? What are they?</p>
<p>Comments:</p>
<p>UR is great school, but you will not get any slack for your GPA because of it. (Just sayin’–D2 graduated from UR and just finished her med school application cycle.)</p>
<p>Your GPA and sGPA are both very, very low for allopathic schools. Unless you have something very special, unique and compelling about your application, I’d say your chances at MD schools are poor even if your MCAT is spectacular.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/mcat-gpa-grid-by-selected-race-ethnicity.html”>https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/mcat-gpa-grid-by-selected-race-ethnicity.html</a></p>
<p>Your chances at DO schools look better (esp once that D in physics gets replaced), but your chances will depend on your MCAT score. Do you have a LOR from a DO? A number of DO schools require them.</p>
<p>Submitting in late August is LATE. AMCAS verification will take up to 4-6 weeks after you submit. Allopathic schools close their applications between Oct 15 and Nov 1. By late August, some med schools are already interviewing students. AACOMAS was taking (I think) 4 weeks for verification, but DO schools have a longer interview season than do MD schools. Would you consider postponing your application for 1 year? It would give you time to improve your GPA/sGPA and you would be able to submit earlier.</p>
<p>Suggestions if you plan to apply this year:</p>
<p>1) Start filing out your AMCAS and AACOMAS applications NOW so that you can submit as soon you have a MCAT score. (IIRC, neither will process your application without a MCAT score.)</p>
<p>2) Once you’ve created AMCAS and AACOMAS accounts, order your transcripts. It will take UR about 3 weeks to process and send them. You want everything in place at AMCAS/AACOMAS so that once you do hit the submit button, your application can be placed immediately in the verification queue.</p>
<p>3) Check the school specific threads over at SDN and get the secondary questions. Start pre-writing your secondary essays so you can get them back to the schools as soon as you receive them.</p>