Canadian re-applicant - which schools?

[med8866]

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I have a 36 T and 3.7 cgpa (probably 3.8 scgpa) and am earning an Msc in 2011.

I am a middle-eastern female and immigrated to Canada in high school - but am fluent in many languages.

ECs: abroad volunteering in ER and shadowed a physician for 2 months, speak 5 languages, 3 years of hospital volunteering at 3 different hospitals, various students clubs, waterpolo intramurals, swim instructor and life guard, charity fashion show model, dance chorus for a show that took ~200 hours, professional dancer, a few significant scholarships and oral and 2 poster presentations, 1 "potential" publication by the time I matriculate, 2 years of undergrad research and 2 years of full time research in the masters'.

Schools:

Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Tufts, Case Western, Boston U, Pritzker, Vanderbilt, Jefferson, EVMS, Darthmouth and Einstein.

I don't want to apply to a huge number of schools and I think 13 is adequate. However, should I lower the number of "reach schools" and aim for more mid-tier ones? If so, which ones?

The first time that I applied to the US with a 32Q on the MCAT and in my last year of undergrad I was accepted at SLU but for monetary reasons couldn't go there. This time I am applying to schools that don't ask for 300 k in an escrow account.


I would appreciate any comments/ critisisms, etc.

 

[klmnop]

You're competitive for most of these schools... your GPA may be a bit behind but not too far.

I am assuming you are a Canadian citizen/resident. If so it will make it that much tougher. Only 13% of foreign residents that have applied over the last 10 years have matriculated... on average of about 129 students for the entire US accounting for the entire world.

Regardless, I would throw on some ultra-safety schools. Cheaper schools you would never go to unless you were rejected at all of the above. Put at least 3 to 5 of these because like I said, you are already at a disadvantage as a foreign applicant... plus it can't hurt.

 

[med8866]

Thanks for the advice! Yes I have dual citizenship (my home country and Canada).

Which cheaper schools do you recommend? I can't go for NYMC (it wants an escrow account from Canadians as well). I am including EVMS (which I hear is pretty easy to get into?).
Should I include Drexel, SUNY upstate, etc.?

Are you Canadian and did you make it in the US? I heard the reason the number of CND matriculants is so low in the states is mostly bc they get acceptances from Canadian schools at the same time and/ or can't afford to go.
I don't have my hopes too high for Canada but I will be applying here as well.

 

[klmnop]

Thanks for the advice! Yes I have dual citizenship (my home country and Canada).

Which cheaper schools do you recommend? I can't go for NYMC (it wants an escrow account from Canadians as well). I am including EVMS (which I hear is pretty easy to get into?).
Should I include Drexel, SUNY upstate, etc.?

Are you Canadian and did you make it in the US? I heard the reason the number of CND matriculants is so low in the states is mostly bc they get acceptances from Canadian schools at the same time and/ or can't afford to go.
I don't have my hopes too high for Canada but I will be applying here as well.

I'm dual (US/Canada) with a US residency and Canadian Undergrad.
Check out the MSAR book and the AMCAS website for facts on Canadian applicants, I don't know which schools are Canadian friendly. Most likely private, northern ones near the border.

True the cost is a major factor for stellar Canadian applicants not going to US schools, but regional selectivity is another reason. Just as Canadian schools have a high preference for local applicants, so do American schools. Many Canadian applicants to US schools are either A) the best of the best who have a shot a great private schools, or B) the worst Canadian applicants who are not competitive for Canadian schools.

The statistics by themselves are incomplete and thus difficult to justify, but based on your self admission of the escrow account being a limiting factor, it seems financial stipulations are also your enemy so that makes the 13% statistic all the more accurate.