3.85 cGPA, 3.80 sGPA, 34

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College Junior

cGPA 3.85,
sGPA 3.80,
MCAT 34 (12v/11ps/11bs)

EC's:

Service:
Tutoring english- 1 year @ ~ 10 hrs/ week
EMT-B First Responder in hometown
Volunteering with mentally ill - 3yrs (since college began) @ ~ 4 hrs/ week

Research:
A small survey type thing through my mental illness volunteering, hoping to get a paper/poster out of it

Leadership:
Working on establishing an EMS group on campus
Part of an student council thing for honors students (only 1 semester)

LOR's:
I got one LoR from a science professor (meh- I didn't build much of a relationship with my professors), and the rest (3) from my service activites (these will be good to great, hopefully). I have a great relationship with the committee that is writing my composite letter.

Other:
Got a couple awards for writing and a full merit scholarship to my school
Done ~30 hrs of shadowing, planning to do more before AMCAS submission

My prospective list of schools: (Edited List)

1. Umass Medical School (MA)
2. Tufts Medical School (MA)
3. BU Medical School (MA)
4. Brown (RI)
5. University of Vermont College of Medicine (VT)
6. Albany Medical College (NY)
7. New York Medical College, (NY)
8. SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine (NY)
9. George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences (DC)
10. Georgetown Univeristy School of Medicine (DC)
11. University of Miami Miller SoM (FL)
12. Drexel College of Medicine (PA)
13. Temple University (PA)
14. Jefferson Medical College (PA)
15. Keck SoM (CA)



I don't care about prestige, and I want to end up in primary care living somewhere nice. If you guys could give me any advice it would be hugely appreciated. What schools should I cut off my list? Any I don't have that I should look at?

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[red doctober]

Colorado, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are pretty IS-selective but not as bad as UMass and Washington. If you want to apply to the first three schools, fine, but I wouldn't waste money on Washington or UMass if you're out-of-state or in the case of Washington from Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, or Alaska. Brown doesn't accept many students through the traditional pathway, so I'd say scrap that one as well.

 

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[Goobs]

Some schools on that list (GWU, BU, Tufts, Jefferson, Temple, Drexel) receive > 10,000 applications a year so it's always a crap shoot, despite having stats above the average.

 

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