Finalizing school list! 3.71, 518

[jayz313]

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Hi everyone! Submitted my primary a few weeks ago and secondaries are currently trickling in. However, I'm a bit worried that my list may be a bit top-heavy. All and any advice on this would be appreciated!



sGPA: 3.71
cGPA: 3.71 (upward trend)
MCAT: 518 (129/127/130/132)
NY Resident, ORM
Ivy League undergrad

Research: 1500 hours (2 clinical experiences with one pending pub, several posters, and senior honors thesis)
Clinical: 200 hours clinical volunteering, 100 hours shadowing
Non-clinical: 250 hours various local philanthropic organizations dealing with homelessness, hunger, etc,


Leadership: Founder of medtech company, TA, editor for a few on campus papers, Business Manager of consulting firm, Eagle Scout


MD:


Top/High: Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Duke, Columbia, Northwestern, Cornell, Sinai, NYU, Emory (I added about 3-5 of these as sort of a "why not?")

Mid: Dartmouth, BU, Brown, Einstein, Rochester, Georgetown

Target: Upstate, Downstate, Buffalo, Stony Brook

(Absolutely no idea about the new NYU Long Island school)


As I indicated above, I originally had around 15 schools and thought it was fair to be a bit optimistic when I got my MCAT back so I tacked on a few more reach schools. I'm hoping that my targets in the SUNY schools will be enough of a "cushion" to let me focus on the other schools. Thoughts on this?

 

[Goro]

Hi everyone! Submitted my primary a few weeks ago and secondaries are currently trickling in. However, I'm a bit worried that my list may be a bit top-heavy. All and any advice on this would be appreciated!



sGPA

: 3.71


cGPA

: 3.71 (upward trend)


MCAT

: 518 (129/127/130/132)
NY Resident, ORM
Ivy League undergrad



Research

: 1500 hours (2 clinical experiences with one pending pub, several posters, and senior honors thesis)


Clinical

: 200 hours clinical volunteering, 100 hours shadowing


Non-clinical

: 250 hours various local philanthropic organizations dealing with homelessness, hunger, etc,


Leadership:

Founder of medtech company, TA, editor for a few on campus papers, Business Manager of consulting firm, Eagle Scout


MD:


Top/High: Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Duke, Columbia
,

Northwestern,

Cornell, Sinai, NYU, Emory (I added about 3-5 of these as sort of a "why not?")

Mid: Dartmouth, BU, Brown, Einstein, Rochester, Georgetown

Target: Upstate, Downstate, Buffalo, Stony Brook

(Absolutely no idea about the new NYU Long Island school)


As I indicated above, I originally had around 15 schools and thought it was fair to be a bit optimistic when I got my MCAT back so I tacked on a few more reach schools. I'm hoping that my targets in the SUNY schools will be enough of a "cushion" to let me focus on the other schools. Thoughts on this?

Fine list. But delete Brown, as they highly favor their own UGs.
Add Hofstra, NYU.LI, Case, Pitt, Duke, WashU, Jefferson

 

[jayz313]

Fine list. But delete Brown, as they highly favor their own UGs.
Add Hofstra, NYU.LI, Case, Pitt, Duke, WashU, Jefferson

Great, will look into those schools. Appreciate it!