MD Finalizing School List + WAMC, West Coast 518 MCAT + 3.8 Post-Bacc

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My application was just verified and I have received some secondaries from my small initial list. My preview score comes out in one week so I am looking to finalize and add any schools I should consider over the next several days.

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
   1. BCPM Cumulative 3.2; Post-bacc 3.8 (38 credit hours post-bacc, 1.80 freshman year in undergrad w/ 14 credit hours - dropped pre-med)
   2. Cumulative AO: 3.8
   3. Cumulative Total: 3.6 (Upward trend: Fresh: 2.3, Soph: 3.7, Junior: 3.7, Senior: 3.9, Post-Bacc: 3.8)
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts.
   1. 518 (128/131/128/131) first attempt
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
   1. Self: California
   2. Mother: Hawaii
   3. Father: Maryland
4. Ethnicity and/or race
   1. White male (high school and childhood was rural and underserved)
5. Undergraduate institution or category
   1. Georgetown
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
   1. 10,000+ hours full-time post-college jobs in hospital administration and health policy
   2. 700 hours volunteer EMT
   3. 250 hours student worker in an academic hospital
7. Research experience and productivity
   1. 250 hours in basic science lab
   2. 250 hours in clinical setting, senior thesis (just includes the on-site hours)
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. 80 hours with majority EM and primary care, some specialties
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. 400 hours with homeless
   2. 100 hours with special needs youth
   3. 40 hours with 5-10 hours per-week ongoing with homeless and low-income with clothing, food, addiction recovery
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
    1. 2,000 hours part-time job during college to help pay for it
    2. 300 hour internship with government agency focused on health care
    3. 150 hours with public health club
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. N/A
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important
    1. One W in undergrad and one W in post-bacc
    2. I am not in-region for UC Riverside and am not a cultural fit for Loma
    3. My sister lives in Massachusetts

Reach:

• Stanford
• Mayo (AZ)
• Duke
• Cornell
• Mount Sinai
• Michigan (OOS)

Target:

• UC San Diego
• UC San Francisco
• UC Los Angeles
• UC Irvine
• USC Keck
• Kaiser
• Emory
• Miami
• Georgetown
• Tufts
• Boston University
• Pittsburgh
• Brown
• Dartmouth
• University of Maryland (OOS, but father lives here)
• JABSOM (OOS, but mother lives here)

Baseline:

• UC Davis
• Creighton (AZ)
• UMass
• George Washington
• Jefferson
• Wake Forest
• Tulane

Specific Questions:

1. Should I consider OOS but potentially in-region schools like Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Utah?
2. Is it worth even bothering to try Hopkins, Harvard, WashU, Vandy, Yale, Columbia etc. with my stats?
3. What are the odds of not getting into any UC?

 

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You have too many reach schools. You could add these schools:
Arizona (Phoenix)
California University
TCU
St Louis
Rosalind Franklin
Western Michigan
Medical College Wisconsin
Hofstra
New York Medical College
Albany
Temple
Hackensack