Add More Schools? Opinions Please!

[ct303]

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So I applied to 40 schools- ended up sending in 36 secondaries.
The earliest I sent in secondaries was beginning of August with the last one submitted the second week of September.

I haven't received any interviews yet though. I have received a few post-secondary rejections from 4 of the schools but I am wondering if I should add more schools before the deadline. I know that it is a little late now and might be a pain, but what is your opinion? If I add schools, which ones would be good to add? Am I just over-reacting?

3.65cGPA/3.30 sGPA
31 MCAT (PS:11, VR:10, BS:10)
CO resident

ECs include 2 years of research- clinical with physicians from an Illinois medical school, other psychology research, a publication and a presentation, 2 year service mission to Cambodia, founded and lead a nonprofit organization (distributed 3500 pairs of glasses in August in Cambodia), some clinical volunteering, and other church volunteer leadership.

 

[GoPelicans]

IMO it's too late, only apps with fat stats or a needed diversity demographic seem to rise to the top at this point

 

[Lucky Louie]

Your best shot would be with your state schools. Hopefully you sent those. Rather than add more schools, contact the ones that seemed to be the best fit. Or send updates.

 

[ct303]

Your best shot would be with your state schools. Hopefully you sent those. Rather than add more schools, contact the ones that seemed to be the best fit. Or send updates.

Unfortunately Colorado only has one- and I submitted that early in September. Thanks for the advice. I definitely have updates worthy of sending.

 

[lall]

You'll get interviews, you just have to wait a bit. Your ECs are above average, though stats are not, so thats probably why you've been waiting longer.

How confident are you in your writing skills and how well you represented yourself in secondary essays?

If you haven't added Dartmouth, you should. They're really into those that did service work abroad.

 

[ct303]

You'll get interviews, you just have to wait a bit. Your ECs are above average, though stats are not, so thats probably why you've been waiting longer.

How confident are you in your writing skills and how well you represented yourself in secondary essays?

If you haven't added Dartmouth, you should. They're really into those that did service work abroad.

Thanks for the reply- and the encouragement! That was what I figured on the EC/stats.
I feel like my personal statement and descriptions were really well done.
The only question mark is how my letters of rec. are. I have one from my leader throughout my two-year mission, and a letter from the Board of Directors from the nonprofit organization. I know those two are great. My research supervisor I am pretty sure wrote a great one, and my two faculty members I hope are good lol.
Thanks! Any other schools that like that? Or wouldn't be too late to add?

 

[Ismet]

So I applied to 40 schools- ended up sending in 36 secondaries.
The earliest I sent in secondaries was beginning of August with the last one submitted the second week of September.

I haven't received any interviews yet though. I have received a few post-secondary rejections from 4 of the schools but I am wondering if I should add more schools before the deadline. I know that it is a little late now and might be a pain, but what is your opinion? If I add schools, which ones would be good to add? Am I just over-reacting?

3.65cGPA/3.30 sGPA
31 MCAT (PS:11, VR:10, BS:10)
CO resident

ECs include 2 years of research- clinical with physicians from an Illinois medical school, other psychology research, a publication and a presentation, 2 year service mission to Cambodia, founded and lead a nonprofit organization (distributed 3500 pairs of glasses in August in Cambodia), some clinical volunteering, and other church volunteer leadership.

Did you apply to schools that are in your stat range? The sGPA might explain the lack of II, especially if you applied on the higher side.

You'll get interviews, you just have to wait a bit. Your ECs are above average, though stats are not, so thats probably why you've been waiting longer.

How confident are you in your writing skills and how well you represented yourself in secondary essays?

If you haven't added Dartmouth, you should. They're really into those that did service work abroad.

ECs really aren't above average, and ECs don't make up for lackluster grades. The research is definitely good, the service trip can be interpreted differently by different people depending on what he did and what he says about it, and there's not much else. "Some" clinical volunteering probably won't cut it unless he had a lot of clinical contact in his role in research.

Any shadowing? How many hours of clinical experience?

 

[ct303]

Did you apply to schools that are in your stat range? The sGPA might explain the lack of II, especially if you applied on the higher side.



ECs really aren't above average, and ECs don't make up for lackluster grades. The research is definitely good, the service trip can be interpreted differently by different people depending on what he did and what he says about it, and there's not much else. "Some" clinical volunteering probably won't cut it unless he had a lot of clinical contact in his role in research.

Any shadowing? How many hours of clinical experience?

Ya the majority of schools are in my stat range. Makes since about the sGPA though.

Part of the research was clinical- wrote two papers on toxicology. The other research was psychology research.
Shadowing was about 50-100 hours. Clinical experiences have been throughout my other ECs too- eye screenings, etc.