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I submitted 6/16, all transcripts received 6/23, should be verified in the next week. My MCAT was 6/5 and I just got my score back today, and I applied to 20 schools without my score. I was wondering if I could have some suggestions on whether its worth it for me to apply to some top tier schools?
MN Resident
Stats:
3.65 c/sGPA
38 MCAT (12/11/15)
EC's:
Division 3 Varsity Football player, academic all conference
Clinical Volunteering: I only started volunteering at the local free clinic at the beginning of this summer, by interview time I will have ~75 hours and I will be continuing to volunteer there through the school year.
Non clinical Volunteering: 50 hours volunteer tutoring, a couple mission trips, and lots of random community service projects.
Research: 50 hours for a course project, and about 100 hours this summer so far. The project I'm currently working on will last through the school year and will probably result in a pub/presentation or two.
Shadowing: About 140 total hours with many different docs in various specialties.
Tutoring: Worked at Kumon learning center for about 9 months, about 300 total hours, worked with middle school and high school age kids. Also tutored Gen Bio this last semester for a total of about 50 hours.
TA: Was a TA for gen bio, 50 total hours
Work experience: 2 summers at a healthcare staffing (nursing) company, about 450 total hours. A couple random work-study jobs at my undergrad.
Excellent LOR's, pretty strong PS centered around football
I do have 2 IA's for having beer in the dorms
Here is the list of schools I already applied to:
U of MN Twin Cities
U of MN Duluth
George Washington
Georgetown
Quinnipiac
Albert Einstein
Creighton
FAU
USF
UCF
Miami
Dartmouth
Hofstra
Mayo
MCW
Oakland
Rush
Jefferson
U Iowa
VCU
Wake Forest
I was confident I would get a decent MCAT score so I didn't add any top tier schools, but since my score was strong I figured I could stand a decent chance at top tiers. Does anyone have input on this?
I was thinking of adding another 5 schools, but if I add 10 would it be worth it?
UChicago
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Tufts
Columbia
USC
Cornell
Stanford?
any others?
Thanks
MN Resident
Stats:
3.65 c/sGPA
38 MCAT (12/11/15)
EC's:
Division 3 Varsity Football player, academic all conference
Clinical Volunteering: I only started volunteering at the local free clinic at the beginning of this summer, by interview time I will have ~75 hours and I will be continuing to volunteer there through the school year.
Non clinical Volunteering: 50 hours volunteer tutoring, a couple mission trips, and lots of random community service projects.
Research: 50 hours for a course project, and about 100 hours this summer so far. The project I'm currently working on will last through the school year and will probably result in a pub/presentation or two.
Shadowing: About 140 total hours with many different docs in various specialties.
Tutoring: Worked at Kumon learning center for about 9 months, about 300 total hours, worked with middle school and high school age kids. Also tutored Gen Bio this last semester for a total of about 50 hours.
TA: Was a TA for gen bio, 50 total hours
Work experience: 2 summers at a healthcare staffing (nursing) company, about 450 total hours. A couple random work-study jobs at my undergrad.
Excellent LOR's, pretty strong PS centered around football
I do have 2 IA's for having beer in the dorms
Here is the list of schools I already applied to:
U of MN Twin Cities
U of MN Duluth
George Washington
Georgetown
Quinnipiac
Albert Einstein
Creighton
FAU
USF
UCF
Miami
Dartmouth
Hofstra
Mayo
MCW
Oakland
Rush
Jefferson
U Iowa
VCU
Wake Forest
I was confident I would get a decent MCAT score so I didn't add any top tier schools, but since my score was strong I figured I could stand a decent chance at top tiers. Does anyone have input on this?
I was thinking of adding another 5 schools, but if I add 10 would it be worth it?
UChicago
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Tufts
Columbia
USC
Cornell
Stanford?
any others?
Thanks
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