School List Help! 34, 3.9

[thoreaupillows]

Would really love some help on my school list. It's way too top heavy, but I'm not sure what to add/take off.

34 MCAT, 3.9 GPA
Georgia resident
Master of Public Health in Epidemiology

I feel good about my Rec letters and PS

Extracurriculars:
1 year research - no publications
Approximately 400 clinical volunteering hours with low-income populations
Experience in medical settings abroad
Decent but not great leadership
Work at the CDC
Various non-clinical volunteering- probably around 150 hours
a few unique activities
40 hours shadowing


School List:

MCG
Emory
Wake Forest
UVA
Vanderbilt
Hopkins
Brown
Columbia
UCSF
Duke
George Washington
Georgetown
Baylor
UAB
Mt. Sinai
UNC
Cornell
Northwestern

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[thoreaupillows]

Also taking a gap year this year to work at CDC

 

[Optimus-Prime]

couple more safeties... just in case

 

[thoreaupillows]

Any suggestions on schools to use for safeties?

 

[Banco]

Your list is top heavy, and a 34 MCAT is 2+ points below average for most of these schools. You want more mid-tiers and safeties; by all means keep the top schools, but be realistic as well and add schools with closer MCAT medians.

From what I have read, I would take off GW and Georgetown, because they receive so many applications. Also UNC has a lot of in-state bias, and Brown prefers a lot of their undergrads.

Consider Tufts, Albert Einstein, Rochester, Stony Brook, Jefferson, Temple, SUNY Upstate and Downstate, USC, U Illinois, Dartmouth to name a few. Look at MSAR for more schools.

 

[Goro]

MCG
Emory
Wake Forest
UVA
Vanderbilt
Hopkins
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
George Washington
Georgetown
Mt. Sinai
Rochester
Pitt
Vanderbilt
Einstein
Baylor (maybe)
U Penn
U Miami
Loyola
Northwestern
U Toledo
U Cinci
U KY
U Louisville
Any new MD school, especially Hofstra
U Chicago (maybe)