MD Chance me for next cycle? Need help trimming school list

[chinesedude]

NY Resident, Asian, non-trod(?), went top 25 school in Midwest

3.7 cGPA, 3.6 sGPA, poor freshman year
MCAT: balanced 518 (May 2016)

Above average EC's while in school - was a TA and an instructor for courses, research, volunteering, etc.

Taking my first gap year off serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Thailand.

In my second gap year, I will be working in a private clinic as a medical assistant (2000 hours)

Albany Medical College
Albert Einstein
Boston U
Case Western
Columbia
Duke
Emory
Geisel (Dartmouth)
Georgetown
Hofstra
Icahn
Keck
Lewis Katz (Temple)
NYMC
Sidney Kimmel (TJ)
SUNY Buffalo
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Stony Brook
SUNY Upstate
Tufts
UMich
UPitt
URochester
Weill Cornell
Yale

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[NeuroSoph75]

How much patient contact/physician shadowing will you have when you apply? Did your volunteering include nonclinical volunteering?

 

[chinesedude]

How much patient contact/physician shadowing will you have when you apply? Did your volunteering include nonclinical volunteering?

2000 hours as a medical assistant
300 hours clinical volunteering
300 hours nonclinical volunteering

 

[NeuroSoph75]

I would start by cutting the schools that receive tons of applications/where your MCAT is well above the median: Drexel, Commonwealth, Temple, Loyola, Penn State, Georgetown, GWU, Tufts, Jefferson. Also, I think Rutgers heavily favors in state students.

 

[Faha]

Where is your state of residence?

 

[chinesedude]

Where is your state of residence?

NY

 

[Faha]

You can cut the 2 Rutgers schools since you are not a NJ resident. Harvard and Penn are reaches with your GPA.

 

[chinesedude]

Thank you. @gyngyn @Goro anything else? Add or remove?

 

[Goro]

Cut Brown, they highly favor their own.