~3.55cgpa/sgpa, 34 MCAT

[DocBrown90]

1) Albert Einstein
2) Boston U
3) Case Western
4) Central ............................(IS)
5) Drexel
6) Emory
7) George Washington
8) Georgetown
9) Hofstra
10) Indiana
11) Keck (USC)
12) Loyola
13) Miami
14) Michigan State............................(IS)
15) NYMC
16) Ohio State
17) Rochester
18) Rosalind Franklin
19) Rush
20) Stony Brook
21) SUNY Downstate
22) Jefferson
23) Toledo
24) Tufts
25) UIC
26) Vermont
27) Wake Forest
28) Wayne State............................(IS)
29) Western............................(IS)
30) Wisconsin

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[Goro]

What about clinical and non-clinical volunteering? Without that, your app is toast.

 

[DocBrown90]

What about clinical and non-clinical volunteering? Without that, your app is toast.

Hi, thanks for the reply. I have a bit over 100 hours of clinical volunteering and 50 hours of non-clinical. I also have a paid clinical experience that involved patient contact.

 

[Goro]

From your list, I recommend the following. But get some more non-clinical volunteering. Show off your altruism.

1) Albert Einstein
2) Boston U
4) Central ............................(IS)
5) Drexel
6) Emory
7) George Washington
8) Georgetown
9) Hofstra
12) Loyola
13) Miami
14) Michigan State............................(IS)
15) NYMC
17) Rochester
18) Rosalind Franklin
22) Jefferson
24) Tufts
26) Vermont
27) Wake Forest
28) Wayne State............................(IS)
29) Western............................(IS)

ADD:
Oakland-B
Temple
Tulane
VCU
EVMS

 

[DocBrown90]

From your list, I recommend the following. But get some more non-clinical volunteering. Show off your altruism.

1) Albert Einstein
2) Boston U
4) Central ............................(IS)
5) Drexel
6) Emory
7) George Washington
8) Georgetown
9) Hofstra
12) Loyola
13) Miami
14) Michigan State............................(IS)
15) NYMC
17) Rochester
18) Rosalind Franklin
22) Jefferson
24) Tufts
26) Vermont
27) Wake Forest
28) Wayne State............................(IS)
29) Western............................(IS)

ADD:
Oakland-B
Temple
Tulane
VCU
EVMS

Great, thanks again. I had been volunteering in outpatient care at the time I submitted my primary and have been continuing since then.

 

[GrapesofRath]

Great, thanks again. I had been volunteering in outpatient care at the time I submitted my primary and have been continuing since then.

Not a bad list. Continue to beef up the clinical volunteering. Here is what all I think might be worth giving some consideration to(not an exhaustive list). I listed the schools from your list that are a good call in addition to some other ones.

Michigan State
Oakland
Western Michigan
Central Michigan
Wayne State
Einstein
Boston U
Case Western(maybe)
Emory
Hofstra
USC
Miami
NYMC
Rochester
Toledo(maybe)
Wake Forest
Tulane
Saint Louis
Creighton
Medical College Wisconsin

Public schools with IS bias like Ohio State, Indiana, Stony Brook, Downstate, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin aren't great choices. A 3.55 is too low OOS. Likewise, if you can interview well, with a thorough list I'm not sure you need low yield schools with millions of applications and some of which show a slight IS bias on top of that such as Drexel, GW, Georgetown, Rosalind, Temple etc. Being a Michigan resident provides 3 very good IS options in Wayne, CMU and Michigan State and that's where your odds will clearly be best at(for perspective Wayne State interviews about 1/3 IS applicants.....all these OOS lower tiers that percentage is between 2-5% usually).