Finalizing School List Help

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thekewlone

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Hi! I've been researching with reddit, admit.org, SDN, and MSAR for the past two days straight and I am cooked. I've come up with a more or less final medical school list. I have posted before here but would appreciate a comprehensive and final look. I did prefer staying closer to GA to an extent and removed some schools due to extreme cold weather. Goal is applying to around 30 MD schools. I'd appreciate some blunt feedback and suggestions. Any that I should remove or add because of stats, extremely specific mission, or OOS?

cGPA: 3.74 | MCAT: 510 |ORM? Yes, Asian | Resident: GA, born in NY | Taking a Gap Year
  • 200 clinical volunteering hours (free clinic, hospital, hospice)
  • 1000 research hours (no publications. posters and school related awards)
  • 70 hours shadowing in primary care/internal medicine
  • 400 hours (paid + volunteering, i need to sort through them) working with ESL and managing program. Technically tutoring but more extensive than that
  • club leadership for 2 clubs
  • Spanish language
  • LORS: 2 very strong ones from research professor and volunteer coordinator. I think my academic ones are at least good based on feedback from professors.
SCHOOL LIST (MD)
  1. Drexel University College of Medicine
  2. Eastern Virginia Medical School
  3. Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
  4. Indiana University School of Medicine
  5. Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
  6. Loma Linda University School of Medicine
  7. Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
  8. Tulane University School of Medicine
  9. Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama
  10. University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine
  11. Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
  12. Medical College of Wisconsin
  13. Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
  14. Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
  15. Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
  16. Albany Medical College
  17. SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine
  18. Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  19. Wayne State University School of Medicine
  20. Emory University School of Medicine (state)
  21. Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University (state)
  22. Mercer University School of Medicine (state)
  23. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  24. University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
  25. Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
  26. Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
  27. University of Illinois College of Medicine
  28. University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  29. Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
  30. Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine
  31. George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
  32. Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
  33. Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU
  34. Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
SCHOOL LIST (DO)
  • Will Decide Later
 
You asked for blunt…. I wouldn’t recommend applying this cycle as you don’t appear to have any longitudinal non-clinical volunteering with the less fortunate. If you apply, I would remove Pitt, Emory, Michigan, etc as your stats are not competitive. Many of the state schools you’ve included accept OOS applicants with higher stats.
 
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You asked for blunt…. I wouldn’t recommend applying this cycle as you don’t appear to have any longitudinal non-clinical volunteering with the less fortunate. If you apply, I would remove Pitt, Emory, Michigan, etc as your stats are not competitive. Many of the state schools you’ve included accept OOS applicants with higher stats.
the 400 hours things has been with a nonprofit with underserved over the past 6 years (i probably have 600 hours total but didnt count the ones from high school) (1/2 split paid 1/2 split volunteering)? is that not good enough? thanks for feedback tho!
 
You asked for blunt…. I wouldn’t recommend applying this cycle as you don’t appear to have any longitudinal non-clinical volunteering with the less fortunate. If you apply, I would remove Pitt, Emory, Michigan, etc as your stats are not competitive. Many of the state schools you’ve included accept OOS applicants with higher stats.
which schools lean on accepting oos students with higher stats that i should avoid (other than pitt and michigan)? i tried using msar to craft the list but i guess i missed some
 
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