Help cut down my school list; 4 MCATS! 3.65 - 31

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A little about me:

I'm white as snow!
Dropped out of high school and went to a community college for 1.5 years where I finished all my prerequisites. Then I transfered to a 4-year and after another 1.5 years, got my B.S. in chemistry. I'm not sure what my non-science/science gpas are but my course work is mostly in science so it's around 3.65.
NY resident.

Experience:

PACU volunteer - Around 100 hours over a five month period

Clinical Research Intern - 500+ hours over the course of almost a year
Published abstract and submitted paper for review. Bunch of shadowing from here but that's another category. Got an amazing letter of recommendation from one of the best surgeons in the country.

Research Intern - 300+ hours (this is what I'm going to be doing in my year off)
Neuroscience lab; eventually will have a pub or two

Shadowing:

Two Vascular Surgeons: 60+ hours
Endocrinologist: 50+ hours

MCAT:
First try, below 20
Two months later: 27
Third try: 26 (Didn't study but that goes for the first two as well. I know it wasn't smart but I was burnt out from school, trying to finish college in 3 years.)
Fourth: 31 Five months of studying. (10/10/11)

List of schools:
Albany Medical College
Drexel University College of Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School
George Washington University Sch of Med & Hlth Sci
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
Jefferson Medical Coll. of Thomas Jefferson Univ.
Medical College of Wisconsin
New York Medical College
New York University
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Quinnipiac University SOM
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Scien
Rush Medical College
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
State University of New York Downstate Medical Cen
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
SUNY at Buffalo Medical School
Temple University School of Medicine
The University of Vermont College of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Den
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicin

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[Goro]

Four MCAT tires may hurt you, but you did finally get over the magicv 30 mark, so you should have some luck some where. Keep in mind that you're fin for any DO program, including mine. NYIT-COM, PCOM, and Touro-NY are all nearby for you.


My suggested list:

Albany Medical College
Drexel University College of Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School
George Washington University Sch of Med & Hlth Sci
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
Jefferson Medical Coll. of Thomas Jefferson Univ.
Medical College of Wisconsin
New York Medical College
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

Quinnipiac University SOM
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Scien
Rush Medical College
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
State University of New York Downstate Medical Cen
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
SUNY at Buffalo Medical School
Temple University School of Medicine

Tulane University School of Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicin

 

[ChemEngMD]

I agree with Goro, you've got a chance at MD and the schools he suggested are definitely around the range I would be shooting for if I were you.

Good luck and congrats on your 31!

 

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Thank you both! I will start looking into DO schools as soon as I get some secondaries out of the way for MD. Their deadlines are further out anyways.

Goro, you cut those schools out mostly because they are reach schools?

Also, I don't have a dean's letter for PCOM, which is a shame.

 

[Goro]

Yup...I doubt that you'd get anything from NYU. I'd call them "beyond reach" schools.


Goro, you cut those schools out mostly because they are reach schools?

 

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Yup...I doubt that you'd get anything from NYU. I'd call them "beyond reach" schools.


Goro, you cut those schools out mostly because they are reach schools?

But I'm doing research at their medical school. Won't hurt to try.
Thanks for everything!! I have a lot of work ahead of me.

Oh and maybe we'll get to meet each other this year, although you'll know it's me before I know it's you.