3.64/3.52/510 WAMC + School List

[oregonian19]

Hello! My application has finally been verified and my MCAT scored. I am hoping to get some final WAMC input and assistance with my school list!

1. cGPA/sGPA/nsGPA: 3.64/3.52/3.93
2. MCAT: 510 (129/126/127/128)
3. State of Residence: OR (Strong ties to NY and VT, previous history living in CO)
4. Race/Ethnicity: White, non-Hispanic
5. UG Institute: Ordinary state school
6. Clinical experience: by matriculation --
   1. 1200+ hours as a scribe for a surgeon
   2. ~300 hours volunteering at a diabetes clinic (moderate amount of patient contact over the telephone, new volunteer trainer)
7. Research experience:
   1. ~900 hours in a biology lab during UG (paid, mostly lackey work)
   2. ~250 hours working on a UG thesis w/ poster presentation and defense
   3. 120 hours volunteering at a cancer research lab at a medical school
8. Shadowing:
   1. 52 hours w/ two different PCPs (both were DOs; one private practice, one HMO)
   2. 3 hours w/ a pediatric endocrinologist (MD)
9. Non-clinical volunteering: by matriculation --
   1. 215 hours as a pharmacy technician at a charitable pharmacy
   2. ~120 hours as teaching civics/history for citizenship classes
10. Other extracurricular activities:
    1. Health outreach club during UG; helped re-design application process and made a personal effort to reach minority students to encourage them to apply (~150 hours)
    2. Biology TA for 1 term (~80 hours)
    3. Summer after graduation: ~200 hours as a paid health educator, educating new university students about health & wellness resources on campus.
11. Honors & Awards:
    1. $20,000 academic scholarship from my university (based on HS GPA & SAT/ACT)
    2. $1,000 scholarship from local medical center (based on volunteerism, LORs, HS GPA)
    3. Dean's List (one term, fall of my freshman year)
    4. Service award from my health outreach club
12. Other:
    1. Hobbies I plan on mentioning in my app: architecture/design, therapy dog training
    2. LORs:
       1. Research PI/thesis adviser (also taught me in one upper-division science course I got an A in)
       2. Biology instructor; got an A in her course, TA'd for her class later; she has written me a LOR before
       3. Literature professor; got an A in both classes I had with her, we have a good rapport
       4. Surgeon I scribe for
       5. Social worker who is my volunteer manager at the diabetes clinic; she always has super positive things to say about me when talking with others
       6. My supervisor for the health education job I had, also adviser for the outreach club I was part of

School List
I am having some difficulty constructing a list of 20-25 schools for me to apply to.
Using MSAR, WARS, Prospective Doctor Chance Calculator, and this post about OOS friendliness, I constructed the list below. Personally, I feel it has too many OOS public schools.

• OHSU
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• University of Arizona - Tuscon
• University of Colorado
• Creighton
• University of Minnesota
• University of Louisville
• University of Kentucky
• Eastern Virginia Medical School
• Indiana University
• Wake Forest
• Quinnipiac
• University of Vermont
• University of Toledo
• Geisinger Commonwealth

I would love some thoughts and opinions! Thank you!

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[Faha]

Yes, you have too many OOS public schools. I suggest these schools for your application.
OHSU
Creighton
TCU-UNT
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
Rush
St. Louis
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Georgetown
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac
Vermont
Colorado

 

[oregonian19]

Yes, you have too many OOS public schools. I suggest these schools for your application.
OHSU
Creighton
TCU-UNT
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
Rush
St. Louis
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Georgetown
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac
Vermont
Colorado

Thank you!
Do you feel I have enough service for Rush? Also, seems like a lot of low-yield schools?

 

[Faha]

You are fine for Rush. Your chances are better at the schools I listed than many of those state public schools on your list. For example, Arizona Tucson receives 8,500 applications from non residents and matriculates 31 of them. When your chances of admission to a school are less than 1% there is no point in applying there.

 

[oregonian19]

You are fine for Rush. Your chances are better at the schools I listed than many of those state public schools on your list. For example, Arizona Tucson receives 8,500 applications from non residents and matriculates 31 of them. When your chances of admission to a school are less than 1% there is no point in applying there.

Okay. Thank you so much!

 

[Goro]

Hello! My application has finally been verified and my MCAT scored. I am hoping to get some final WAMC input and assistance with my school list!

1. cGPA/sGPA/nsGPA: 3.64/3.52/3.93
2. MCAT: 510 (129/126/127/128)
3. State of Residence: OR (Strong ties to NY and VT, previous history living in CO)
4. Race/Ethnicity: White, non-Hispanic
5. UG Institute: Ordinary state school
6. Clinical experience: by matriculation --
   1. 1200+ hours as a scribe for a surgeon
   2. ~300 hours volunteering at a diabetes clinic (moderate amount of patient contact over the telephone, new volunteer trainer)
7. Research experience:
   1. ~900 hours in a biology lab during UG (paid, mostly lackey work)
   2. ~250 hours working on a UG thesis w/ poster presentation and defense
   3. 120 hours volunteering at a cancer research lab at a medical school
8. Shadowing:
   1. 52 hours w/ two different PCPs (both were DOs; one private practice, one HMO)
   2. 3 hours w/ a pediatric endocrinologist (MD)
9. Non-clinical volunteering: by matriculation --
   1. 215 hours as a pharmacy technician at a charitable pharmacy
   2. ~120 hours as teaching civics/history for citizenship classes
10. Other extracurricular activities:
    1. Health outreach club during UG; helped re-design application process and made a personal effort to reach minority students to encourage them to apply (~150 hours)
    2. Biology TA for 1 term (~80 hours)
    3. Summer after graduation: ~200 hours as a paid health educator, educating new university students about health & wellness resources on campus.
11. Honors & Awards:
    1. $20,000 academic scholarship from my university (based on HS GPA & SAT/ACT)
    2. $1,000 scholarship from local medical center (based on volunteerism, LORs, HS GPA)
    3. Dean's List (one term, fall of my freshman year)
    4. Service award from my health outreach club
12. Other:
    1. Hobbies I plan on mentioning in my app: architecture/design, therapy dog training
    2. LORs:
       1. Research PI/thesis adviser (also taught me in one upper-division science course I got an A in)
       2. Biology instructor; got an A in her course, TA'd for her class later; she has written me a LOR before
       3. Literature professor; got an A in both classes I had with her, we have a good rapport
       4. Surgeon I scribe for
       5. Social worker who is my volunteer manager at the diabetes clinic; she always has super positive things to say about me when talking with others
       6. My supervisor for the health education job I had, also adviser for the outreach club I was part of

School List
I am having some difficulty constructing a list of 20-25 schools for me to apply to.
Using MSAR, WARS, Prospective Doctor Chance Calculator, and this post about OOS friendliness, I constructed the list below. Personally, I feel it has too many OOS public schools.

• OHSU
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• University of Arizona - Tuscon
• University of Colorado
• Creighton
• University of Minnesota
• University of Louisville
• University of Kentucky
• Eastern Virginia Medical School
• Indiana University
• Wake Forest
• Quinnipiac
• University of Vermont
• University of Toledo
• Geisinger Commonwealth

I would love some thoughts and opinions! Thank you!

Here is a more realistic list:
OR HS
U Toledo
U VM
Miami
Tufts
George Washington
Georgetown
SLU
Albany
Rush
Rosy Franklin
NYMC
MCW
VCU
EVMS
Wayne State
Wake Forest
Netter
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
Tulane
Loyola
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Oakland-B
Seton Hall
Nova MD
TCU/UNT
Any DO program. I can't recommend Touro-NY, Nova, Wm Carey, LUCOM, for different reasons. MSUCOM? Read up on Larry Nasser and you decide. LMU has an accreditation warning, which concerns me.
Start list with both Westerns, PacNW, TUNCOM, KCU, AZCOM, BCOM Touro-CA

 

[oregonian19]

Thank you to @Faha and @Goro for help!

Also wanted to ask: what are my chances for interviews/acceptances?

Okay, I went through the two lists provided, as well as another from Reddit, and eliminated ones in locations I would dislike. Here is an updated list:

1. Colorado
2. Quinnipiac
3. Georgetown
4. George Washington
5. Loyola
6. Rosalind Franlin
7. Rush
8. Tufts
9. Oakland-Beaumont
10. Wayne State
11. St. Louis
12. Wake Forest
13. Creighton
14. Seton Hall
15. Albany
16. SUNY Buffalo
17. New York Medical College
18. University of Toledo
19. OHSU
20. Jefferson
21. Temple
22. TCU-UNT (Unsure about this school since it is brand new)
23. Eastern Virginia
24. Virginia Commonwealth
25. Vermont
26. Medical College of Wisconsin