MD CA Resident- 3.70cGPA, 3.73sGPA, 512 MCAT

[djsbaseball2014]

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I have posted before i wanted to get some feedback on my finalized list, should I leave it as is or add in more top tiers? take away some? looking for last minute feedback

Male, 21, CA, Mexican, attend a UC, 4th year Neuroscience Major
cGPA:3.70 (projected: i had a very strong upward trend=2 years of 3.92-4.0)
sGPA: 3.73
MCAT: 512 (130/125/130/127)
Substantial life experience in that i was born premature, have a hypoplastic lung, had an infection in the other lung and some how made it out lol more to it but theres a good reason for why medicine!
EC's:

• President of schools cooking club, host food demos and got funding of $20,000 from head of UC system to address food insecurity on campus and community. We also collaborate with other orgs and do PB&J drives fro homeless around the area (2 years-300 hours)
• Member of neuroscience program that teaches elementary and high school students about the brain (1 year-100 hours)
• Private tutor for high school students, paid work experience (4 years- 1,000 hours)
• Medical Scholars Program Tutor, organic chemistry (1 year- 120 hours)
• Mentored at my old high school, gave talks about college, tutored STEM and AP classes (2 years- 120 hours)
• EMT-B certified
• 50 hours shadowing (ENT, Anesthesia, OBGYN) will get about 20 more hrs of primary care shadowing
• about 150 hours volunteering at local hospital
• 3 months at free health clinic (30-40 hours)
• 2 years psychology research with a poster presentation that won first place at school research symposium, co-author in school journal (Great LOR- 850 hours)
• 1 year neuroscience research with prof who taught me (Great LOR- 120 hours)
• Health Coach at clinic through university's medical school: advise patients with hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia about healthy lifestyle choices, volunteer clinical experience (1 year- 300 hours)

Gap year (potential plans): substitute teach (for money), continue tutoring, paid clinical research

School List:
UCR
University of Arizona
Wake Forest
Loyola Stritch
UC Davis
Virginia Commonwealth
University of Colorado
Indiana University
Creighton
Temple
Drexel
Penn State
Tufts
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of Miami
University of Massachusetts
UCI
University of Central Florida
Hofstra
Geisel SOM at Dartmouth
USC
UCLA
UCSF
Mayo Clinic
U Pitt

 

[Detective SnowBucket]

*I have no qualifications beyond reading the MSAR 😉 *
It looks like your 'backups' are mostly low-yield schools (eg Temple with >10,000 applications). Take that into account when you decide on what your safety/target/reaches are so that there isn't a majority of low-yields in any.

 

[djsbaseball2014]

@Detective SnowBucket I was actually considering Temple a "target" school based off of stats, the list broken up top is "safety", then "target" and the last 5-6 are "reach" safety is strictly stats based or ties to the school/area in the case of UCR and Davis which they value highly as well as my stats being over the median

 

[Detective SnowBucket]

Sorry, I meant to give Temple as an example of low-yield rather than safety. Sorry for any confusion.

 

[Detective SnowBucket]

Just from my personal experience, don't apply to USF for no other reason than Florida sucks. Trust me, FL resident.