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[Student189045]

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[Faha]

Where is your state of residence?

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats and regional preference:
Harvard
Boston University
Tufts
Brown
Dartmouth
Yale
UConn
UMass
Hofstra
Einstein
NYU
Mount Sinai
Columbia
Cornell
Rochester
UPenn
Pittsburgh
Case Western
Washington University (just because they like applicants with high stats)

 

[Dr panda]

Could you please share how did you get 527?

 

[Faha]

Tha

Thank you for the advice! Did you pull temple, NYMC and Quinnipiac because I might be yield protected? (I don’t have any specific interest in these schools, I just added them so I wasn’t too top heavy)

Yes, you will be yield protected at those schools. They know you will be going elsewhere.

 

[Walter Raleigh]

Stats are stellar, at or near the 90th percentile at every school in the country. ECs are okay; your nonclinical volunteering is fairly low at 110 hours. If you took a gap year and got another 200 hours of nonclinical volunteering - plus that publication on your record - you'd be a Harvard-tier rock star.

 

[Walter Raleigh]

If you are sure you would not have regrets, go ahead and apply; if you want that top-20 seat - and you would be a very strong competitor for it with even another hundred hours of nonclinical volunteering - you might pull out of the process this year and reapply the next year. As you are, you're solid for everywhere but the top 20 and might well get acceptances there as well. Definitely have WashU on your list, and any other schools @Goro describes as loving high-stat applicants. Good luck.

 

[TempuraOreos]

Do you know if there are any schools that offer merit scholarships to high stat applicants/ where I could find this info?

From my experience, these were the schools that gave me merit aid that are close to where you're considering going: NYU, Umich, Northwestern.
But basically most of the top 20s who get hundreds of millions in donations and whatnot have some sort of funding. Ex: Penn has 21st century scholars program that gives 25 students full tuition scholarships.

You might need to do some digging through the financial aid section of their websites to find out what scholarship opportunities schools provide.

 

[deleted966008]

If you can see yourself in Chicago, I'd add Northwestern and UChicago because they're high MCAT schools that give significant amounts of merit aid. Also add Hopkins if you're willing to stretch your boundaries

 

[TempuraOreos]

Thank you !

You're welcome. Good luck!

 

[Goro]

Hello, I am having a hard time knowing what "tier" of schools to apply to as my stats qualify me everywhere but I've been told being traditional and my average EC aren't what top schools are looking for.

cGPA: 3.98
sGPA: 4.0
MCAT: 527
Research: Will have ~1100 hours by my projected end date. Problem is I don't have anything to show from it yet. I'll be presenting in the fall and possibly a pub by the end of my senior year, but I don't have that yet so as of now I have nothing
Clinical volunteering: 400 hours of patient contact in hospital
Non clinical volunteering- 30 hour in soup kitchen, 50 hour spring break trip, 30 hour doing fundraising (only once per year since I was a kid)
Shadowing- 140 hours across 5 specialties
Leadership- 50 hours leading a first year seminar, repeating again
Tutoring- 70 hours paid
Hobbies- some music and outdoor stuff, dont think this really means anything
I'm ORM

School list: Feel free to butcher this, I'm in the dark on where I can apply. Also, I have 20 here but would like to cut it to 15 if possible.

• NYU
• Dartmouth
• UVM
• UConn
• Harvard
• Upenn
• Hofstra
• NYMC
• Columbia
• Cornell
• Quinnipaic
• Temple
• BU
• Brown
• Yale
• Icahn
• Einstein
• Tufts
• UMass
• WashU

p.s. Northeast ish is pretty important to me, evidenced by my school selection

I suggest:
NYU
Case
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
U Chicago
U Penn
Northwestern
Columbia
Harvard
Albert Einstein
Hofstra
Ohio State
Pitt
U Cincy
Mayo
Cornell
Sinai
BU
U VA
Duke
U VM
Dartmouth
Rochester
Western MI
Emory
Jefferson
Miami
SLU
Tufts
UCLA
UCSD
UCSF
U MI
Stanford
USF Morsani
USC/Keck
U IA
Baylor