help me whilst you judge me (yet another school list)

[mr. sparkle]

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I hope you're not tired of school lists...
So, after being stuck on five waitlists for a very very very very long time (very), i've decided to go ahead and reapply this year.

BCPM: ~3.63, All others: ~3.58, Total: ~3.62
B: 12, V: 10, P: 12, Wr: M

I'm a NY resident, graduated from the upstate ivy. (I transferred there sophomore year from Stony). Last year, my stats were pretty much the same, my GPA a little less. I applied to 13 schools, and got 7 interviews. Of these, after interview I was rejected at 2 schools, and I was waitlisted (hold-ed) at Stony Brook, Downstate, Upstate, Mt. Sinai, & Duke. I have a fair amount of research, ECs, and volunteering under my belt, and am going to be working at the NIH this coming year.

My school list for this year:
Boston University
Case Western
Duke
George Washington University
Georgetown
Keck
Loyola
Medical College of Wisconsin
Mount Sinai
Penn State
Rosalind Franklin
Saint Louis
Downstate
Stony Brook
SUNY Buffalo
SUNY Upstate
Tufts
University of Maryland
Virginia Commonwealth
Wake Forest

Aside from the schools I was waitlisted at, I am applying for the first time to all of these schools.

What does everyone think? Also, I hope I'm not running too late...[Many thanks in advance].

 

[PineappleGirl]

Have you looked into University of Vermont?

 

[UCLAstudent]

Your list looks pretty good, but with those stats, I think that you should add a few more "reach" schools.

 

[PineappleGirl]

Maybe Dartmouth as a reach.

 

[mr. sparkle]

Have you looked into University of Vermont?

i applied to Vermont last year. they didn't show me any love 🙁
(maybe it was the two speeding tickets i have and forgot to report to them...we will never know...)

i also had a few reach schools last year (like Cornell, Yale, NYU)...I guess I've just become a bit cynical about this whole process this time around...but i guess i will give Dartmouth a shot.

thanks for your suggestions everyone 🙂

 

[zurned]

Wow, ur stats look amazingly similar to mine. I'm from NY and go to stonybrook, but no ivy transfer for me. My BCPM is 3.58 and overall is 3.62. MCATS is V:10 P:11 B:12 W:O

Here's where I applied to. I wanna stay instate, but applied to outta state schools just in case and also to see more places. Hope this helps since our stats are kinda similar.

Albany Medical College -
Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University -
Columbia University -
Drexel University -
Eastern Virginia Medical School -
Georgetown University
George Washington University -
Mount Sinai School of Medicine -
New York Medical College -
New York University -
Pennsylvania State University -
SUNY Buffalo
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Stony Brook -
SUNY Upstate
Temple University -
University of Pittsburgh -
University of Rochester -
University of Virginia -
West Virginia University -

 

[zurned]

hold on, ur a 2nd time applicant?!?!?!? O crap, thats not good for me. I thought that unless something goes horribly wrong, I was pretty much in.

 

[mr. sparkle]

hold on, ur a 2nd time applicant?!?!?!? O crap, thats not good for me. I thought that unless something goes horribly wrong, I was pretty much in.

hey zurned,

don't worry. i think my health committee at my undergrad screwed me over, because i was a transfer. (my sophomore gpa there was like a 3.2 overall).

as far as your list goes, i steered away from west virginia because they didn't seem to take that many out of staters. i might consider eastern virginia, but they seem to prefer students headed into primary care. (just my interpretation of msar).

 

[mr. sparkle]

bump ^^

 

[Law2Doc]

bump ^^

I think your list looks fine --were you a late applicant? If not, with 7 interviews and no love I think the interview is one part of the application process you really need to find a way to practice. (If you made it to an interview your committee didn't screw you over too bad -- the spot was yours to win). See if you can get into some mock interviews, go over potential interview questions with friends and family, and use videotape or a mirror to see how you are projecting yourself. If you think it might be worth it, check out some public speaking type classes such as Dale Carnegie or Toastmasters etc. so you get more comfortable speaking in front of strangers. Interviewing is a learnable skill, and one that shouldn't be neglected in the process. Lots of us used the interview to our advantage in the process.

 

[epalantequevoy]

I think your list looks fine --were you a late applicant? If not, with 7 interviews and no love I think the interview is one part of the application process you really need to find a way to practice. (If you made it to an interview your committee didn't screw you over too bad -- the spot was yours to win). See if you can get into some mock interviews, go over potential interview questions with friends and family, and use videotape or a mirror to see how you are projecting yourself. If you think it might be worth it, check out some public speaking type classes such as Dale Carnegie or Toastmasters etc. so you get more comfortable speaking in front of strangers. Interviewing is a learnable skill, and one that shouldn't be neglected in the process. Lots of us used the interview to our advantage in the process.

i agree 100%.

 

[mr. sparkle]

thank you for the tips.
i hadn't thought my interviews went that bad, but it's something i will consider.