MD 3.64 GPA, 32 MCAT, How's the school list?

[Ztg93]

I plan to submit first few days of June.
Need help finalizing my school list before applying.

Quick run-down:

OH resident
3.64 cGPA, 3.55 sGPA --(3.90 GPA last 45 credit hours!)
32 MCAT - 11/10/11

• Hospital Volunteering (1.5 years) - LOTs of patient contact
• Shadowing (40 Hours) - Orthopedic Surgeon, Cardiologist
• Research (1 Year) - Human cardiac muscle
• TA-ing (1 Semester) - Introductory Physiology course
• Mentoring (2 Years) - No official title but lots of leadership; preparing inner-city kids for future past high school (college, career, life goals) and helping newly immigrated students assimilate and learn US culture
• Waiter (1 year)
• Health Focus Program (2 Years) - bi-monthly meetings discussing health issues in US, occasional volunteering ( Food banks, community building events, participating in fundraising 5K)

My School List:
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Wright State
Rush
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Temple
Jefferson
Drexel
Penn State
Albert Einstein
Mt. Sinai
Boston
St. Louis U
Med College of Wisconsin
Albany
NYMC
George Washington
Wake Forest
Vanderbilt
Toledo
Any input is welcome!

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[gyngyn]

I plan to submit first few days of June.
Need help finalizing my school list before applying.

Quick run-down:

OH resident
3.64 cGPA, 3.55 sGPA --(3.90 GPA last 45 credit hours!)
32 MCAT - 11/10/11

• Cancer Hospital Volunteering (1.5 years) - LOTs of patient contact
• Shadowing (40 Hours) - Orthopedic Surgeon, Cardiologist
• Research (1 Year) - Human cardiac muscle (dissection, freezing, testing contraction force)
• TA-ing (1 Semester) - Introductory Physiology course
• Mentoring (2 Years) - No official title but lots of leadership; preparing inner-city kids for future past high school (college, career, life goals) and helping newly immigrated students assimilate and learn US culture
• Waiter (1 year)
• Health Focus Program (2 Years) - bi-monthly meetings discussing health issues in US, occasional volunteering ( Food banks, community building events, participating in fundraising 5K)

My School List:
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Wright State
Rush
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Temple
Jefferson
Drexel
Penn State
Albert Einstein
Mt. Sinai
Boston
St. Louis U
Med College of Wisconsin
Albany
NYMC
George Washington
Wake Forest
Vanderbilt
Toledo
Any input is welcome!

You have more than a dozen schools where you have a good chance at an interview. You might want to cut out a few low yield ones (e.g.GW).

 

[Ztg93]

Thanks, would Boston be considered low-yield? Also, will the lack of primary care shadowing hold me back at all?

 

[gyngyn]

Thanks, would Boston be considered low-yield? Also, will the lack of primary care shadowing hold me back at all?

Sinai's 10th% is a 33 MCAT, BU is a little better at 31.
Primary care shadowing would go a lot further than ortho!

 

[Heplayer92]

I think George Washington and Drexel both get 10,000+ applicants as well = low yield!

 

[keevwu]

i would take sinai out

 

[Ztg93]

I went ahead and took out GW and Mt. Sinai. Is there any other MD schools you'd recommend I add?
Also, If I add a general pediatrician in the next two weeks (before June 2nd) would that help out? Or should I hold off on submitting 1-2 weeks (until June 16th) until I shadow a primary/family doctor?

Thanks!

 

[Goro]

goro suggests:

Ohio State
Cincinnati
Wright State
Rush
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Temple
Jefferson
Drexel
Penn State
Albert Einstein
St. Louis U
Med College of Wisconsin
Albany
Tufts
NYMC
Wake Forest
Toledo
Creighton
Any of the new MD schools
Any DO program

 

[gyngyn]

Also, If I add a general pediatrician in the next two weeks (before June 2nd) would that help out? Or should I hold off on submitting 1-2 weeks (until June 16th) until I shadow a primary/family doctor?
Thanks!

Peds is fine. Don't delay your ap for a few more shadowing hours at this point.

 

[Ztg93]

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