3.65 cGPA, 39 MCAT

[bkalltak]

CA resident, Top 10 undergraduate institution
3.65 gpa 39 mcat

-4 summers of research and year of honors research with 2 publications
-volunteer on medical trip to third world country for 2 weeks
-associate editor of 2 student run publications
-officer in biotech student group
-small amount of shadowing my senior year
-doing clinical research during my gap year
-have one presumably strong rec from a nobel laureate
-most of the grades pulling down the gpa are from freshman/sophomore year

List:
Harvard
Stanford
Johns Hopkins
UCSF
Penn
Wash U
Yale
Columbia
Chicago
Michigan
Washington
UCLA
UCSD
Cornell
Pitt
Northwestern
NYU
Virgina
Boston
Brown
USC
UC Davis
UC Irvine


I am applying to mostly top 25 research schools. Would my lower GPA (especially compared to my MCAT) keep me out of the top research schools? Thanks!

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[Goro]

Nope, you're golden. Suggest adding UCSD and deleting UCI, and add Baylor and some of the UTx's.

CA resident, Top 10 undergraduate institution
3.65 gpa 39 mcat

-4 summers of research and year of honors research with 2 publications
-volunteer on medical trip to third world country for 2 weeks
-associate editor of 2 student run publications
-officer in biotech student group
-small amount of shadowing my senior year
-doing clinical research during my gap year
-have one presumably strong rec from a nobel laureate
-most of the grades pulling down the gpa are from freshman/sophomore year

List:
Harvard
Stanford
Johns Hopkins
UCSF
Penn
Wash U
Yale
Columbia
Chicago
Michigan
Washington
UCLA
UCSD
Cornell
Pitt
Northwestern
NYU
Virgina
Boston
Brown
USC
UC Davis
UC Irvine


I am applying to mostly top 25 research schools. Would my lower GPA (especially compared to my MCAT) keep me out of the top research schools? Thanks!