517, 3.67c, 3.5s - any advice greatly appreciated

[joeschmoejohndoe]

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[Faha]

Cornell and UCSF are reaches with your GPA. Rutgers takes mainly NJ residents. You could add these schools:
Quinnipiac
Vermont
Drexel
Temple
GW
Georgetown
Hofstra
New York Medical College
Albany

 

[Goro]

While the sGPA is a tad low, I like the Americorps experience, and so recommend (bolded names are all maybes):

U VM
U Toledo
Miami
St. Louis
Netter
Albany
Albert Einstein
Rochester
Rush
Rosy Franklin
NYMC
EVMS
Wake Forest
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
Tulane
USC/Keck
Dartmouth
MCW
Loyola
USF Morsani
Emory
BU
Mayo (both)
Duke
Case
JHU
Pitt
Northwestern
NYU
Vanderbilt
Columbia
Hofstra
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
U MA

white guy with MA residency
517 (131, 129,129,128)
3.67c, 3.5s
dual degree: music performance and cognitive science

clinical volunteering: 165 hrs some here, some abroad
non-clinical volunteering: 185 hrs (elementary tutoring and volunteering abroad)
shadowing: 45 hrs (family medicine, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, interventional cardiology, pediatrics, internal medicine)

Americorps for a gap year in a health clinic: 1700 clinical volunteering hours by the end of the term
~3yrs research (1,445 hrs in 3 different labs: microbiology, neurobiology, adolescent psychology = 3 poster presentations and a summer fellowship)
2 medical brigades to honduras (set-up and ran 1 wk medical clinics)and 1 business brigade (teaching finance skills to a local indigenous tribe) to panama
intramural soccer and volleyball
pre-med club: 2 leadership positions
resident assistant
honors college mentor-mentee program
orchestra
summer camp counselor for 2 summers

Schools:
UMass
Dartmouth
Tufts
BU
Mt. Sinai
Cornell
Sidney Kimmel
Pitt
Cincinnati
Iowa
UCSF
USC
Emory
Miami
Rutgers-RWJ
Northwestern
Rochester


Do I stand a chance with these schools and any I should add?

Thanks in advance for any help!