determined, but concerned... please help.

[doingallican]

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Here are some of my basic stats (very brief):

3.6 cum, 3.4 bcpm, 31 mcat at top 20 university.
extensive volunteering, leadership in several university clubs, club athletics, and 3 years of research in university hospital, semester of study abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina (fluent in Spanish).

This is my list... Any thoughts, or recommendations?
GWU
Georgetown
Boston
Tufts
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola-Chicago
New York Medical College
U of Miami
Howard

I reeeaaaalllyy appreciate all of your time and consideration! Thank you so much for your input!!

 

[NotAndrew]

What state do you live in? Whatever the answer may be apply to all of your state schools(unless you live in Cali). Also did you graduate already or do you have more school left?

Some school I would add

Rush
VCU
UMD
SUNY-Upstate or Downstate
Temple
Tulane

 

[virusgirl]

I would add EVMS, Tufts, NYMC, and AMC. If you're up for doing the Texas med school application, I think their schools are fairly accepting of OOS residents.

Your stats are on the low end of what I would consider to be competitive, so you definitely have a chance, but applying to highly competitive schools is likely to not work out for you. I would give Georgetown the axe.

I would also apply to a lot of schools... like 30-35. Go through the MSAR and figure out where your stats are competitive (and of those schools, where your state of residence won't shut you out). Apply broadly, write a dynamite PS and secondary essays, and I think you'll probably get in somewhere.

 

[virusgirl]

Also get some clinical experience! I don't know what type of volunteering you've done, but ideally you want a combination of shadowing/volunteering in a patient setting (hospital, clinic, nursing home, etc.).

 

[MilkmanAl]

The average matriculant has a 3.65/31. The OP's stats are fine, even if the BCPM is a tad low. I agree with the school additions, but there's no way in hell you need to apply to 35 schools. I'd shoot somewhere in the 20-25 range. You also don't need to cut Georgetown.

You're in desperate need of some clinical experience, so get on that immediately. Volunteer as much as possible, get a job, or something. You won't stand a chance without relevant experience.

 

[doingallican]

Thank you so much for all of your help! I really appreciate all of your comments!

To answer some of the questions posed:

I am a Colorado resident, so I am definitely going to be applying to Colorado (I know it's a tough state school, but figured I'd try).

Also, I am a junior, so I have one more semester of GPA to add, but that's it.

I'm not sure what is meant here by clinical experience... The research that I do in the hospital is in an ortho trauma clinic where I meet with patients on a regular basis. Does that count?

Finally, I had been told that it is much harder to get into a state school from out of state, which is why I did not have any on my list... Is this not the case?

Thank you so much again for all of your help!

 

[Mobius1985]

The research that I do in the hospital is in an ortho trauma clinic where I meet with patients on a regular basis. Does that count?

Yes, that does count as clinical experience. You should still try to get in some shadowing of a couple types of physicians.