Am I applying to enough schools?

[freaker]

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Are these eight enough?

Tennessee resident, 3.75 undergrad gpa, 3.5 science, English and art history major w/minor equivalency in French, 35O, one semester of law school at 3.0, worked for an Australian international law firm in London, worked for another firm in Cali, lifeguard for years, see note on volunteer experience below.

I'm thinking of applying to

UT-Memphis
ETSU
Alabama-Birmingham (top-choice)
Emory (advantage in that it's my college alma mater and am a southerner)
Tulane
Wake
Ohio State
Cincinnati

Schools I'd also consider (and am definitely open to suggestions)

Vandy
MCO
Colorado
UVA
VCU
Creighton

I'd like to stay in the south, though I'm willing to relocate where I can pick up in-state tuition after a year.

Red flags in my app:

1) dropped out of law school after a semester

2) haven't had any science courses in several years

3) letters of rec from science professors are going to be weak. I'm meeting with them, but seeing as I took most of my science classes with either profs who knew very little English or while I was abroad, my options are limited (plus no science courses in several years, again).

4) Clinical exposure may be weak: I have lifeguarded for several years, volunteered a summer at a children's hospital, and am currently volunteering 15+ hours per week in a children's hosptial and am participating in a program that allows me to dress down in scrubs and see surgical procedures throughout the hosptial for 5 hours/week. Shadowed two doctors, one for about 3 months, the other for a few days.

 

[skypilot]

I would apply to 12 schools. Don't count on the schools with low tuition as an out of state resident. Everybody else has that idea too! I would add a few more private schools in your area that like out of staters. 🙂

 

[efex101]

You should be fine specially with the TN schools *but* if you can apply to more I would also suggest adding schools. You just never know here are the stats for TN 598 applied 227 matriculated to a state school and 61 to an out of state school. So about half of those applying go in somewhere. Matriculants from TN had a 3.58 overall gpa and the mcat scores were like 9.3 ...you will be fine.

 

[samurai_lincoln]

Why not South Alabama, since you are already applying to UAB? The South Carolina schools or Kentucky/Louisville are other suggestions, since you want to stay in the south. I would think that your numbers give you at least a shot at Baylor as well, and that place is a bargain.

Careful with Colorado... you can gain state residency after first year, but from what I hear, the nonresident tuition will be jacked up to $70k+ this coming year 😱 due to the state budget shortfall and construction of the new Fitzsimmons campus.

 

[freaker]

The South Carolina schools or Kentucky/Louisville are other suggestions,

I would love to apply to the South Carolina schools, but you don't get residency there after a year and out-of-state tuition is 48k. Charleston is a cool town, but still... I guess I can look in Kentucky and Louisville, though I don't think they admit many out-of-staters.

Didn't know about Colorado jacking the fees up again. It used to be a bargain at 56k (lol). Then 65. Now 70?

South Alabama will definitely go under consideration. I don't think they admit many out-of-staters (will check stats again), but I like Mobile.

 

[Premedtomed]

You can apply to UK only if you have strong ties with Kentucky. (I am a KY resident who is applying there) U. of Louisville accepts around 12-14 out of staters.

 

[mellantro]

i don't understand why you aren't applying to more top tier schools, unless you are looking regionally. your background seems really interesting and different, and i think you stand a good shot at some of the more reach schools. i mean save for your law school gpa, your grades/mcat are pretty impressive.

you will be targeted on the --why did you drop out of law school-- front i.e. are you indecisive, but don't worry b/c tons of former law students and financial people have gotten into med school, so it's not like there is no precendent for it.

 

[Andrew_Doan]

I'd apply to 15 schools. You can always turn down interviews. Apply to some more top 10 programs.