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I'm a first-gen, disadvantaged, CC transfer, White male from CA with a 3.88/521 (3.95 sGPA). I have taken a gap year w/ AmeriCorps, have 1200+ research hours w/ 2 posters, 1100+ paid clinical hours as a MA and a few somewhat unique leadership roles totaling around 500 hours. LORs are from 1 upper-div science prof, 2 science profs from my community college, 1 from upper-div Psych prof, and 1 from research PI.
I have applied to 34 schools so far, with a HUGE amount of effort being designated to 3 secondaries in particular (my top choices, all T20); this effort has kind of burned me out, to the point that I don't think I can put effort into many more. I know for a fact that my primary was well-put together, but I don't think all of my secondaries were of the highest quality/not all of them were in within 2 weeks.
My question is: should I be adding more schools, or should I be re-focusing on my life outside of med school apps?
This is where I have applied/am planning to apply over the next week:
(I received Miami, Yale, Penn, and Duke last month, but I decided against applying to these programs. Not really my cups of tea or the secondary was much too long.)
Any suggestions welcome.
I have applied to 34 schools so far, with a HUGE amount of effort being designated to 3 secondaries in particular (my top choices, all T20); this effort has kind of burned me out, to the point that I don't think I can put effort into many more. I know for a fact that my primary was well-put together, but I don't think all of my secondaries were of the highest quality/not all of them were in within 2 weeks.
My question is: should I be adding more schools, or should I be re-focusing on my life outside of med school apps?
This is where I have applied/am planning to apply over the next week:
(I received Miami, Yale, Penn, and Duke last month, but I decided against applying to these programs. Not really my cups of tea or the secondary was much too long.)
UCSF & UCSF-PRIME (connected to SJV) |
UCLA |
Columbia (submitted after 15 days) |
WUSL |
Northwestern |
Chicago |
Mt Sinai |
Cornell |
UCSD (submitted after 17 days) |
Boston University (submitted after 17 days) |
Mayo |
Kaiser |
Harvard (didn't have a letter from my second PI) |
Hopkins |
Case Western |
Michigan |
UVA |
UC Irvine |
Emory (meh secondary) |
Brown |
Jefferson |
Rochester |
Einstein |
Ohio State |
Hofstra |
Tufts (meh secondary) |
UC Davis |
Rutgers RWJ (am connected to NJ) |
Quinnipiac |
Cincinnati (did SURF program at Cincy Children's) |
USF-Morsani |
Western Michigan |
University of Iowa |
Oakland Beaumont (submitted secondary after 15 days) |
Pitt (meh secondary) |
Stanford (terrible secondary; spent very little time on) |
NYU |
Stony Brook |
Any suggestions welcome.
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