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riguy16

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Hi, I'm a junior in a top 15 school in the Midwest. I would appreciate some input about chances at certain schools and also school list suggestions.
cGPA 3.98, sGPA 3.97, MCAT 37: P14/V10/B13.
I have 200 hours ER volunteering over 1 year, about 40 hours shadowing 2 physicians, will have 400 hours over 10 months working in lab come this June--but no publications or posters.
70 hours volunteer and shift captain for campus club that collects food for homeless
Recently elected exec position for premed oriented club
Two year committee member helping organize and raise money for camp geared toward kids with personal/family struggles
TA for one term Bio lab

Possible schools:
Loyola
University of Illinois
Northwestern
Rush
Med Coll Wisonsin
U Wisconsin
Wash U St Louis
Baylor
Case Western
Brown--maybe
Drexel
Wayne
Indiana

Any advice on my list, and suggestions for schools, would be much appreciated. I am afraid my list is too top heavy, with schools that I may realistically have no chance at, and would appreciate some input on possible modification.
Thanks

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GPA and MCAT are excellent, but since you are light on the research side I would say stay away from top 10. Everything else is fair game.
 
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You're golden; nothing wrong with aiming high.


I suggest:


Loyola
University of Illinois
Northwestern
Med Coll Wisconsin
U Wisconsin
U Chicago
Wash U St Louis
Baylor
Case Western
Jefferson
Temple
U Penn
Tulane
Wayne
Indiana
U MI
OH State
U Cincy
U Toledo
Wright State
NEOMED if you're a Buckeye
Pitt
U KY
U Louisville
 
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Thank you for the responses.
I am really uncertain about top 20s-30s like Baylor, WashU, Northwestern, etc.: don't really feel quite competitive for some of these. UPenn seems like an almost impossible shot, but an interesting consideration.

Any other input would be much appreciated!
 
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