cGPA: 3.82, sGPA: 3.81, MCAT 516 School List Please Help!

[yung aquafina]

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Indian CA resident, applying now as a junior
Major: Neuroscience
Minor: Archaeology, Biophysics

ECs
- On-Campus EMT: Over 1000 hours of responding to calls on campus, been on executive board for past 2 years
- Research: ~2 years of neuroscience research, 1 publication and 1 poster presentation
- Shadowing: over 150 hours shadowing pathologist, cardiologist, and general surgeon
- Indian Dance team: competed nationally and done performances on campus, president for past 2 years
- Religious group: co-founded a religious group on campus to raise awareness about my religion and share its community aspects
- a chemistry class TA
- a biology class TA
- Volunteer work in Honduras on medical brigade for one week (plan to go again next year)
- Train people on campus for sexual assault awareness (~ 50 hours of this)
- Volunteer at elementary schools conducting vision tests so underprivileged kids can get prescriptions for glasses (~ 50 hours of this)
- I also work as a DJ for events on campus and produce music as a hobby
- I also do graphic design work - designed brochures and information resources to promote students to get Meningitis vaccinations


My current school list:
Albert Einstein
Boston University
Case Western
Drexel
Emory
Dartmouth
GWU
Georgetown
USC
New York Medical College
Rush
Tufts
UMiami
Tulane
SLU
Wake Forest
UC Davis, Irvine, LA, San Diego, Riverside, SF
NYU
Northwestern
Wash U
Cornell

Please let me know if this list seems appropriate and if I should add/take anything away. I appreciate any and all advice! Thank you so much everyone.

 

[GrapesofRath]

GW Drexel NYMC and Rush are going to be rather low yield options and your stats are getting close to their 90th percentile. I'd scratch.
Your MCAT is scraping near WashU's 10th percentile. Another one I'd ditch.
Some clinical experience outside of shadowing and EMT work would also help.

I see about 8 maybe 9 schools on your current list you can go in saying you have a reasonable shot at getting a II. Perhaps call them "targets" if you really want. Not terrible but you can get that number higher. Medical College of Wisconsin, UIC and both Arizona schools would get that number closer to a dozen which is more ideal. Jefferson Oakland and Cincinnati work well here also.

 

[randomuser17]

GW Drexel NYMC and Rush are going to be rather low yield options and your stats are getting close to their 90th percentile. I'd scratch.
Your MCAT is scraping near WashU's 10th percentile. Another one I'd ditch.
Some clinical experience outside of shadowing and EMT work would also help.

I see about 8 maybe 9 schools on your current list you can go in saying you have a reasonable shot at getting a II. Perhaps call them "targets" if you really want. Not terrible but you can get that number higher. Medical College of Wisconsin, UIC and both Arizona schools would get that number closer to a dozen which is more ideal. Jefferson Oakland and Cincinnati work well here also.

Hi @GrapesofRath , Could you elaborate on what you meant by 90th percentile? If this applicant is in their 90th percentile, wouldn't those schools be great schools to apply to?

P.S I just posted a WAMC thread, if you could help me/provide advice on my thread I would appreciate it!