competitive or average?

[rockydoc]

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I was browsing MDapps and it seems like a lot of premeds have rediculous ECs (which lasted for like 5 years). I was wondering what makes your ECs competitive.

here's my app.
Edit: I just put up an MDApps profile you can look at instead....please comment

MCAT 12V 9PS 11BS M
GPA 4.0
ECs:
Vol/Comm.: ER volunteer (summer), medical missions trip to Peru (over 2 very busy weeks), YMCAreads (semester),
Clinical exp: EMT, lots of shadowing, and you can count that Peru trip again, work in a radiology depart.
Honors: president's list, alpha chi honor society
Leadership/other: leadership team at my school called (S.L.A.M. "servants leaders and mentors) dorm leader in-charge of 3-4 rooms with freshman mentoring, sigma kappa delta, chemistry/physics lab assistant

Is this competitive or just average.....or worse?

 

[chad5871]

This post is better suited for our "What Are My Chances?" subforum. I am moving it there now.

 

[Scean]

I think you are competitive, albeit not for top notch research institutions with no experience in that area. Stick to a broad app of solid schools and you'll get in. Not sure where you live but seems like a solid state school application.

 

[rockydoc]

Yeah I am def. not applying to top research schools. My residence is in CO but I go to school in Florida ( a tiny private one). My school list is:

Albany
Boston U
Creighton
Drexel
GW
Georgetown
Loma Linda
Loyola
Med Sch Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
St. Louis U
U of Vermont
U of CO
U of South Florida (just b/c my school is freakin close to them and they may recognize it better)
Wake Forest

does this look like a good plan (with good chances)?

much appreciated feedback

 

[Live4Life]

Apply more broadly, a lot of those schools are the private schools that recieve 10k+ applications so it really the luck of the draw to gain an acceptance. You have a solid application, and while the average matriculant stats are similar to yours at those schools, the shear volume of applicants reduces your chances of gaining an acceptance.

 

[rockydoc]

I agree...but what other schools take matriculants with similar numbers, in addition to a significant amount of OOS applicants? OOS is the big problem with that one. I kinda feel that those are just about all of the schools that fit that criteria for me. Are there any others you were thinking about?

 

[3535]

Definitely do New York Medical College

 

[rockydoc]

thanks for the info, I will add NY med...are you a student there?