Chances for Ivies and some others?

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Hi guys! I will be a reapplicant this upcoming cycle. My school had a 7 year accelerated (3+4) program that fell through. Everyone is saying it's not personal, just that the dental school we were in the program with decided to remove all articulations they had, they no longer wanted to accept 3rd years.

I'm going to be a traditional applicant with these stats:

3.5 sGPA, 3.6 cGPA
DAT (AA, TS, PAT, Reading, any section below 17): 22, 21, 21, 30, none
19 in both chemistry sections though
Minimal research freshman year (SEA-Phages, published author, presented a poster at a science festival)
200 hours total between shadowing and volunteering in dental clinic
100 miscellaneous volunteer hours
Biology major, microbiology minor, some unique classes like Acting, Anthropology, possibly adding a social sciences minor
State of residency: NJ

My two reach schools are UPenn and Columbia. I'm not optimistic at all about Harvard, but my dentist is a Harvard grad who wrote my LOR, and I'm wondering if I should try Harvard out at all. I feel like my GPA and DAT are not Ivy worthy.

I'm applying to UPenn bc I am SUPER close to it, have visited a bunch, and my undergrad has a really good relationship with them. Columbia because I fell in love with the campus and I really regret not doing more research and I want to do some in dental school, and Columbia just feels like such a good fit for what I want to do (leaning towards specializing but I'm still open to anything).

I'm also a fan of Tufts, WesternU, and obviously Rutgers, my state school. I kind of feel like I'm barely making the minimum/averages for these schools though, and I just want to know how hopeful I should be about even being accepted this time around

I'm not going to bring up my 3+4 program during the upcoming cycle at all, but will it be clear to schools that this is what happened when they see that I'm a reapplicant? It shouldn't look bad right?

Thank you!

 

[Alaskan _Polarbear]

I say you have a pretty good chance of getting into Tufts and Rugters ! Columbia really likes high DAT scores so its a chance too !
Regardless of if you're going to be a reapplicant I think this only applies when you actually sent in an application, but if you never did then I'm pretty sure you would not be a reapplicant.

Maybe if you have time bring up your volunteer hours too if you don't have any other unique clubs that demonstrate dexterity.

 

[rk1229]

I would give Harvard a shot! You never know what could happen, I've definitely seen crazier things happen here on SDN. The worst thing that could happen if you don't get an interview is you lose $100 or so. Good luck!