School List Review! 3.85cGPA, 3.79sGPA, 90-100 MCAT

[mnasir94]

Hello all, If you've got the time please help me out with my school list!


GPA: 3.85c, 3.79s
MCAT 2015:
82-97% on GenChem and CARS
85-100% on BioBiochem and Psych/Soc
90-100% Cumulative

EC's

• Hospital Volunteering (250hrs)
  
• Microbiology TA for a semester (continuing)
• research 1 year + summer [paid in summer] in a basic sciences lab. Unfortunately no publications/posters/awards to speak of
• Disaster relief volunteer organization member [1 yr], leader [2 yr] approx 600 Hrs total
• Shadowing with 2x Pulmonologist, 1x Internal medicine, 1x Nephrologist, 1x General Surgery): 130 Hrs

-People say my PS is nice... Don't really know
-Strong LOR from my PI, Biochem Lab instructors. A few others that I think will also be strong, hopefully. 5 Total.

School List

• Albany Medical College
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Baylor College of Medicine
• Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
• Duke University School of Medicine
• Eastern Virginia Medical School
• Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
• George Washington University Sch of Med & Hlth Sci
• Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
• Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Scien
• Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
• Temple University School of Medicine
• The Commonwealth Medical College
• Tufts University School of Medicine
• Tulane University School of Medicine
• University of Chicago - Pritzker
• University of Maryland School of Medicine
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• University of Virginia School of Medicine
• Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
• Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
• Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

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Some are saying that I should aim higher while others are saying to throw in a larger safety net. At this stage I figured it would really help to ask a wide audience of people to see what they think about my list. It does have a pretty strong regional bias to the Eastern seaboard but I'm open to hearing all options that you guys might think would be a good fit for me.

Thank you!

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[dermacat]

Consider adding Texas schools to the mix. It is a flat fee to submit the TMDSAS application that includes all of the schools you wish to apply to, and the Texas schools have the least expensive tuitions in the country (that I've heard of at least). While its more difficult to get in from out-of-state, with the new medical school (Dell) opening in fall of 2016, I imagine the bottleneck will be looser than normal.

 

[Banco]

If your MCAT comes out 518+, then aim higher. What is your home state?

 

[Xenith]

I predict your percentile will be a 95 or lower. That is still great, but might help you decide. You can check out the mcat discussion threads we made about correlating preliminaries to actual scores.