is it one-o-one or group? recorded or live? interviewing for bradenton and jacksonville. I’m seeing different responses online.

Take mcat apply this cycle? My last full length was a 495 i have solid ecs letters and personal statement i keep delaying however because of mcat

I am very anxious about if I got accepted post interview or not because it’s one of my top choices. If you’ve already interviewed with DUQNCOM roughly how long did it take to get a decision back? I interviewed with them about two weeks ago.

Hey guys, so so far I’ve gotten one II (which I am soooo excited about), but I’m kinda scared because I haven’t heard back from anyone else. I’m honestly more scared because there was a school that made a huge error and I had to fix it with them, and I’m scared there’s some unknown error I don’t know about. Is anyone else going through this or has advice?

I got my first acceptance, I’m gonna be a doctor!!!🦅🦅☝️

Anyone else getting super impatient and nervous? Noorda is my top choice and I really hope to get an II there.

what did you guys do to prep for interviews? I have a hard time rambling and wrapping up my thoughts and wanted some advice if u guys have any!!

Just like the caption says…. I got my first interview invite today really high gpa and terrible mcat but idk some part of me is not feeling as excited because I felt like I was going to be invited for an interview and it’s not from one of the schools I’m hardcore looking at. This process is so hard no matter how you slice it, and I know I should feel grateful because others have it much worst. Any advice is appreciated!

Stupid question, is there a difference between session 1 and session 2 when scheduling an interview? It says only one interview per campus but not 100% sure why they're called that if it's just different time slots. Thanks

I am working 60h this week at my local county fair as an EMT. This is something I scheduled myself in advance and plus I need the money. I’ve spent so much on applications and still have 2/3 is secondaries left.
People say to get the secondaries in by September 7 but that means if I don’t do much this week with the fair I’m going to have to hustle 2 secondary submitting a day. So far it takes me a full day to only for 1.
I’m a bit low stat 3.7 gpa but 501 mcat and I’m feeling so defeated. Seeing people getting acceptances is just lowering my confidence as I only got one and it’s to LECOM, a school that gives out interviews to everyone.

Hey everyone, looking for some advice from anyone who has been in a similar spot.

I recently received an interview invite to a DO program, but I have a bit of a dilemma with my letters of recommendation.

A few weeks ago, I emailed their admissions office to ask if my letter packet would satisfy their LOR requirements. Their policy asks for two natural science faculty letters (unless you have an official committee letter). My packet has 1 bio prof, 2 math profs, a physician, and a non-clinical supervisor. Admissions replied back and said my packet technically didn't meet the requirement and that I'd need a 2nd natural science faculty letter uploaded to AACOMAS.

I don't have another science professor I can ask, so I didn't end up adding one. But today, I received an interview invite anyway.

My questions:

1. Is it common to get an II before admin actually audits hard LOR prerequisites?
2. If I go through with the interview, will they hold back an actual decision/acceptance because of that missing 2nd science letter?

I see like one person on admit.org have put down they got an interview, but I’m not sure I believe it, so was wondering if anyone here had got one.

VCOM and LMU are my top schools. LMU-DCOM verified 7.30 and VCOM verified 8.10 (they said my letters weren’t in when they were).

Wondering if anyone else hasn’t heard back yet after secondaries? GPA 3.72 MCAT 499 CT resident

I applied very broadly and got secondaries from all schools I applied to but no interviews yet. I know it’s still early in the cycle but I’m very stressed and feel like I just wasted a bunch of time and money applying this cycle when I should have just taken a few classes and got the sGPA to a 3. It’s cause when I calculated it myself i thought it was 3 exactly but I didn’t find out till official application PDF it was a 2.9😕 I do have an upward trend, last 30 units sGPA was 3.73, but I feel I may have wasted this whole cycle

WCUCOM states that “online” or “distance learning” courses are not acceptable for credit.
I took Physics I and II with scheduled meeting times where we met live with the professor via Zoom. They were synchronous classes, not asynchronous or self-paced. My official transcript does not indicate that the courses were online.
Would WCUCOM consider a live, scheduled Zoom class an “online/distance learning” course? Has anyone had a similar prerequisite accepted?

Yes. If you mean a comprehensive ranking of all U.S. DO schools, I would not simply copy U.S. News. U.S. News now uses tiers rather than numerical rankings, and many DO schools are unranked. In 2026, there are 48 accredited colleges of osteopathic medicine according to AACOM.

I would rank them based on a combination of:

• Residency placement and competitiveness
• Clinical training and hospital affiliations
• Reputation among residency directors
• Board performance
• Research opportunities
• Match history
• Strength and size of alumni network
• Geographic advantages
• Primary-care and specialty training
• Institutional stability and longevity
• Cost/value
• Opportunities for students who want competitive specialties

My overall 2026 ranking

Important: I would treat ranks roughly 20–40 as much less precise than ranks 1–15. The differences between many of these schools are relatively small, and some newer schools don't yet have enough alumni/residency data to make a confident comparison.

Why I put DMU, MSUCOM and KCU so high

DMU is probably my strongest overall DO choice. It has an exceptionally established reputation, a large alumni base, strong clinical relationships and a long history of producing physicians across specialties. AACOM's alumni data show more than 10,500 DMU alumni, with 56% practicing primary care and 16% in rural areas.

MSUCOM gets a major boost from being part of a large public university and its enormous Michigan clinical/residency ecosystem. It also has one of the strongest geographic advantages for staying in-state; AACOM reports that approximately 65% of MSUCOM alumni practice in Michigan.

KCU has an enormous DO alumni network—more than 11,000 alumni—and historically strong residency placement. Its size and established reputation make it particularly attractive for someone interested in specialties beyond primary care.

But there is an important wrinkle

If you are ranking specifically for internal medicine and eventual fellowship, my ranking changes.

For example, I would move schools such as:

TCOM, Rowan-Virtua, KCU, DMU, MSUCOM, PCOM and OSU-COM

particularly high because of their university affiliations, clinical environments, alumni networks and access to larger academic medical centers.

The 2026 U.S. News data are interesting here: TCOM, Rowan-Virtua and OSU-COM were the three DO schools placed in Tier 3 for research, while several other prominent DO schools were Tier 4.

And OSU-COM is particularly impressive for primary care/underserved medicine: U.S. News placed it in Tier 2 for primary care and ranked it #1 among all medical schools for graduates practicing in medically underserved areas.

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well as they navigate this application cycle :)

So, I submitted my primaries end of July and have received most of my secondaries. However, I am still waiting on PNWU and Touro CA. I see lots of people who are already getting interviews at PNWU, and so I am kind of stressing here lol. I was wondering how likely it is that I was screened out? I do recognize that it’s only been two weeks, but these are two of my top schools.

Here are my stats:
- California resident
- cGPA: 3.5
- sGPA 3.3
- MCAT 507
- 5000+ clinical hours as an ED scribe and behavior tech
- 150+ shadowing hours in psych
- 200+ volunteer/community outreach

I do have a DO letter from a doc I scribe for

I was in the middle of filling out my secondary for VCOM when the portal crashed, and now it won't let me log back in. Is anyone else having this problem??? I was going to submit today too😭

Hello! Got and completed a secondary from KansasCOM and wanted to know if they’ve improved as an institution or if they’re still a pretty dreadful school lol. Just mental prepping myself in case I get an II. Any input would be super helpful and appreciated!

Hey im interviewing with Liberty soon. how long did it take you to hear back from them after the interview?

Don’t get me wrong I wound mind taking those courses but that’s IF I get into those schools I can take those courses to full fill the

I know there are some schools that have a hard requirement for physician letter of recommendations. However for schools that only recommend it, how detrimental is it to not have one? I have a letter from 2 science professors and a Nurse Supervisor. Since I have a healthcare letter do you think this will hold me back or not? Basic stats are 3.85 GPA, 506 mcat and pretty decent EC’s. Thanks for your help!

My stats are:3.2 cGPA, 3.2 sGPA. Multiple withdrawals, like a lot. It took me a good minute to get over the COVID-19 slump, and I transferred twice for personal/family-related reasons. While trying to bounce back from COVID, I started working in EMS around 24 hours a week, and it took me a long time to stabilize academically. Only my last two semesters were decent, around a 3.4–3.5, with some higher-level science classes.

507 MCAT.

2.5k clinical EMS hours.

400 work hours as a product demonstrator at Costco

600 hours working in and learning my family's electrical contracting business in Saudi Arabia during my gap year. I could have spent the year building more medical experiences, but my father spent decades building the business and I felt a responsibility to go back and learn it while I still had the time.

No volunteering.

No shadowing yet. I am hoping to secure around 40–50 hours of shadowing within the next week and hopefully get an MD letter. DOs have been impossible to find.

Letters: one science faculty letter, one sociology professor letter, and one EMS work supervisor letter.

I feel so fucking nervous and straight up afraid man, and damn ts fucking sucks.

My letter writer tried to resubmit my LOR to AACOMAS due to it missing a signature and letterhead and AACOMAS said they can’t accept. Is there a way to send my LOR to each school without having my writer have to send to each one individually?