3.84/516/OH/ORM. Critique my list?

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Finishing up secondary’s looking for feedback on my school list.

ORM, Ohio resident “top 15” undergrad
MCAT: 516 (131/127/130/128)
sGPA: 3.81
cGPA: 3.84
Clinical Volunteering: 180 hours, mostly hospice
Non-clinical volunteering: 200 hours, mostly tutoring
Shadowing: 80 hours including primary care
Paid Clinical: Just started scribing full time for my gap year, maybe doesn’t count as clinical since it’s virtual?
Leadership: President of a tutoring organization within my college, lots of minor stuff
Research: 1 pub - first author review article in a mid impact journal. Few hundred hours doing monotonous wet lab stuff.
Interest in primary care.

List:
All of my state schools
TCU-UNT
Western Michigan
Creighton
Georgetown
George Washington
Wake Forest
Hofstra
Miami
St. Louis
Tufts
USF
Indiana
SUNY Downstate
Colorado
Kaiser Permanente
Hofstra
NYU-LI
Albert Einstein
Pittsburgh
Dartmouth
Emory
Rochester
Boston
USC Keck
Case Western
Michigan

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You have a good list and should receive several interviews. You do not need to apply to DO schools.
 
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Finishing up secondary’s looking for feedback on my school list.

ORM, Ohio resident “top 15” undergrad
MCAT: 516 (131/127/130/128)
sGPA: 3.81
cGPA: 3.84
Clinical Volunteering: 180 hours, mostly hospice
Non-clinical volunteering: 200 hours, mostly tutoring
Shadowing: 80 hours including primary care
Paid Clinical: Just started scribing full time for my gap year, maybe doesn’t count as clinical since it’s virtual?
Leadership: President of a tutoring organization within my college, lots of minor stuff
Research: 1 pub - first author review article in a mid impact journal. Few hundred hours doing monotonous wet lab stuff.
Interest in primary care.

List:
All of my state schools
TCU-UNT
Western Michigan
Creighton
Georgetown
George Washington
Wake Forest
Hofstra
Miami
St. Louis
Tufts
USF
Indiana
SUNY Downstate
Colorado
Kaiser Permanente
Hofstra
NYU-LI
Albert Einstein
Pittsburgh
Dartmouth
Emory
Rochester
Boston
USC Keck
Case Western
Michigan
Fine list; delete IU, SUNY DS, TCU/UNT, Georgetown, George Washington, Kaiser

and add UCSF, Case, U WI, U VM.
DO schools? ONLY if you get no love by T-giving
 
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@Goro why no DState btw, seems like their pretty OOS friendly?
OOS friendly doesn't simply mean that there are OOSer's in the Class. It's a classification that results when you compare the %'s of people from NY vs OOS who not only get II, but also accepts.

IS apps: 2304
OOS: 3274

IS IIs: 750
OOS IIs: 316

IS seated: 179
OOS accepts: 21

Your odds as a NYer getting an II are ~33%; from OOS < 10%
Your odds as a NYer to SUNY DS are 7.8%; < 1% from OOS

That's not OOS friendly in my book.
 
ive actually been looking into this a lil bit. i think the usnwr data is pretty interesting to look at. suny downstate doesnt share data with usnwr but upstate does and i imagine they would be pretty similar.

the msar makes schools seem way less OOS friendly than some actually are. for example, upstate had 2389 OOS apps and 221 II (10% is not bad, basically same as every other school for a CA applicant). MSAR would show only 35 enrolled, which makes it seem like there is a huge bias against accepting OOS apps. But really they accepted 117/221 which is good.
 
ive actually been looking into this a lil bit. i think the usnwr data is pretty interesting to look at. suny downstate doesnt share data with usnwr but upstate does and i imagine they would be pretty similar.

the msar makes schools seem way less OOS friendly than some actually are. for example, upstate had 2389 OOS apps and 221 II (10% is not bad, basically same as every other school for a CA applicant). MSAR would show only 35 enrolled, which makes it seem like there is a huge bias against accepting OOS apps. But really they accepted 117/221 which is good.
Yea, I think it's difficult to predict the ratio of OSS accepted/matriculated for public schools like Downstate that don't report on USNWR. I get the impression they like their OSS applicants to still be from the NYC area (NJ, CT, etc.). However, I had already completed their secondary by the time Goro gave me the advice so if I get an interview there I'll let you know haha.
 
I always wished that people would update these, so these were my cycle results:
Applied: All mentioned above (including all that goro told me to delete and add) and also Baylor

Interviews:
Western Michigan (Telephone only)
Toledo - Did not attend
Wright State - Did not attend
NYU-LI - Waitlist
Baylor - Waitlist
Kaiser Permanente - Waitlist
Pittsburgh - Waitlist
Ohio State - Waitlist
TCU-UNT - Waitlist
NEOMED - Accepted from Waitlist
Hofstra - Accepted
Cincinnati - Accepted

Thanks for all of the advice @Goro and @Faha your advice I read on these threads were invaluable for me over the last few years!
 
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I always wished that people would update these, so these were my cycle results:
Applied: All mentioned above (including all that goro told me to delete and add) and also Baylor

Interviews:
Western Michigan (Telephone only)
Toledo - Did not attend
Wright State - Did not attend
NYU-LI - Waitlist
Baylor - Waitlist
Kaiser Permanente - Waitlist
Pittsburgh - Waitlist
Ohio State - Waitlist
TCU-UNT - Waitlist
NEOMED - Accepted from Waitlist
Hofstra - Accepted
Cincinnati - Accepted

Thanks for all of the advice @Goro and @Faha your advice I read on these threads were invaluable for me over the last few years!
Congrats! What do you think was the biggest thing that made you stand out to get 12 interviews?
 
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