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[Medologist342]

Just reading through your template, it goes without saying your stats are above the median at any school in the country. Your clinical experience is also fine, but I'm unsure about your shadowing experience. Perhaps it is valid, but personally I would try and accumulate 40-50 hours shadowing a primary care/internal medicine doctor to be on the safe side.

Secondly, the non clinical work you list is a bit unclear. It would help if you could describe what you did through Sigma Alpha Epsilon to help classify if it truly is service oriented in any way. If not, it would be in your best interest to get hours with a food pantry/soup kitchen.

Finally, you have no research at all, so schools like Harvard, Stanford, JHU, and really most of the T20s on your list are just donations imo despite your stats.

**I'm applying this cycle, so I most definitely am not the best person to take advice from, but I'm just pointing out potential flaws I see in your application especially in relation to your proposed school list. I'd wait for the experts to come in and give you the real advice though.

 

[MyOdyssey]

How many gap years have you accumulated so far?

The lack of research hours will hurt at many of the schools that also value high stats.

Consider adding Northwestern and UChicago, which are also stats oriented schools.

 

[toastedbutter]

Tyry networking with Uconn and see if you can get a meeting with an admissions officer or representative there. If they see that someone with really high stats is specifically interested in their program, doing some networking may help you in the process.

 

[Faha]

Schools such as Penn State, Vermont and Tulane will "yield protect" with your stats. I suggest these schools with your stats:
UConn
Yale
Dartmouth
Brown
Tufts
Boston University
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
NYU
Columbia
Cornell
U Penn
U Virginia
Duke
Emory
Vanderbilt
Washington University (in St. Louis-they like high MCAT applicants)
Northwestern
U Chicago
U Michigan
Case Western
Cincinnati
Mayo
UCSF
Kaiser

 

[midnightmd2]

Would you be absolutely opposed to taking another year off to get research experience? It could make the difference for you at the T20s, if you were interested in that

 

[lacrossegirl420]

Your stats are obviously great. If you’re aiming for T10 schools your research background will basically disqualify you. If you’re okay going anywhere, a lot of lower-ranked schools might yield-protect you. Overall I’d suggest casting a wide net. Good luck!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I'm aiming for any school I can get into (since no research), but feel like I have to aim top-heavy cuz of stats. Just worried because I want to do emergency medicine/IM due to my background and I don't need to go to a crazy school to do that.

For what it's worth, med students from the brand schools do match to EM/IM. 🙂 I get your point.

You need to find schools that will be supportive of your goal. I should ask you if you are applying HPSP? You can't count on a full COA scholarship, even with your stats. HPSP can get you some extra opportunities, especially with EM/IM.

 

[Goro]

OP, you have a number of schools that will resources protect you out, rightly figuring from historical norms that you'll go elsewhere.
IF you can make friends with anybody in an MPH program, so as to get actual public health research, that will go down better than merely talking
the talk.

Rock stars gotta aim high. I suggest:
Columbia (
Cornell
Duke
Harvard
JHU
Mayo
Northwestern
NYU
U Chicago
U Penn
U VA
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
Case
Hofstra
Stanford
Baylor
BU
Pitt
Sinai
U MI
USF Morsani
UTSW
Brown
Kaiser (only 50 seats!)
Rochester
SUNY-SB
U AZ-P (favors westerners)
USC/Keck
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
Emory
NYMC
Ohio State
U Cincy
U IA
U MA
UCSF
Creighton
Gtown
Hackensack Meridian
Jefferson
Miami
NYU-LI
SLU
Tufts
U CO
U VM
UCF
UCLA [likes disadvantaged]
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
VCU
Western MI
Your state school(s)
Yes, it's a long list. Your job is to cull it down, based upon your needs/interests.

 

[LeaveNoTrace]

Yeah, your lack of research isn't quite as bad as you might think with your solid ECs. Good luck.