Extra schools to add for a CA ORM (3.95/525)? (Very burnt out)

[KendallJennerSniperLady69]

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Hi all,
So far I have applied to 27 schools. My plan was to apply to 35, but unfortunately, I really underestimated my ability to write these secondaries, and I'm very burnt out at 27, and the burn out has been exacerbated by a health emergency in my family adding to the stress of working 50hrs/wk+apps. It is also starting to get later in the app process (Labor Day is here).

As a CA ORM, I was aiming for at least 30 schools, and I wanted to see if the following were okay adds (interested in the schools as much as some I have removed/low burden secondaries enabling timely submission).

I am worried because I have cut 2 mid-tier schools out of my list and only 1 T20, making the proportion of T20s higher... I am thinking of adding Stony Brook, NYMC, and U Indiana to my list. Are these schools okay for someone with my stats and coming from out of state?

I have applied to the following already:

University of Rochester Medical School

CWRU School of Medicine

David Geffen SOM at UCLA

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

UC Davis School of Medicine

UCSD School of Medicine

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College

Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Washington University in St. Louis SOM

Baylor College of Medicine

UCSF School of Medicine

Vanderbilt University SOM

Stanford Medical School

Keck School of Medicine

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Yale School of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Michigan

Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

UC Irvine

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

California Northstate University College of Medicine

I decided not to continue with these (burdensome secondaries that I do not have the capacity to complete right now without completely BSing them. JHU I do not have the correct letters for, and also I do not think I have the capacity to turn in a 10K character secondary right now in a timely manner):

SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

University of Florida College of Medicine

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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[Faha]

NYMC will yield protect with your stats. You could add these schools instead:
U Virginia
Ohio State
Cincinnati

 

[KendallJennerSniperLady69]

NYMC will yield protect with your stats. You could add these schools instead:
U Virginia
Ohio State
Cincinnati

Hi Faha,

Thanks for the guidance!

OSU is actually still on my list of remaining schools to apply to. I cannot guarantee that I can come around to finishing secondaries for Cincinnati and UVA this month though.

Any thoughts on Stony Brook or U Indiana?

@Goro, so sorry to be tagging you on Labor Day, but would you happen to know whether these schools (U Indiana, Stony Brook) would be receptive to an application from an OOS applicant with my stats?

 

[Goro]

Hi Faha,

Thanks for the guidance!

OSU is actually still on my list of remaining schools to apply to. I cannot guarantee that I can come around to finishing secondaries for Cincinnati and UVA this month though.

Any thoughts on Stony Brook or U Indiana?

@Goro, so sorry to be tagging you on Labor Day, but would you happen to know whether these schools (U Indiana, Stony Brook) would be receptive to an application from an OOS applicant with my stats?

Stony Brook is doable, but I'm not sanguine about IU. You deserve better than CNU, as well. Consider U VM, U IA, U CO, Emory, Rochester, Hofstra, and the schools on Faha's list.