MD Help me with a school list 2020: 521 MCAT / 3.8 GPA / ORM /

[mr-dookie]

Hey everyone, this is my first post on here and I'm hoping to get some help for the upcoming application cycle in June. I have started to make a rough draft school list, and I would love any tips you guys have for me. My stats are as follows:

1. cGPA: 3.8 sGPA: 3.75
2. MCAT: 521 (130/130/129/132)
3. State of residence: OR
4. White ORM
5. Undergrad: State school (currently a senior
6. Clinical experience: 115 hours at a children's hospital
7. Research: Will be about 250 hours total (maybe 300) with 2 posters and 1 honors thesis
8. Shadowing: 12 hours ortho (have plans over winter break to get around 50 with anesthesiology and primary care)
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 200 hours Special Olympics coach, 50 hours talking to low SES kids about college, 25 on a non-profit board of directors
10. Other extracurricular activities: 400 hours as Scholarship and Recruitment chair for fraternity, IM sports all 4 years
11. Employment: 700 hours as a Student Ambassador for the psych department

In addition to this, I will be getting a job as a scribe in the next couple of months, that will be around 10 hours a week until graduation, then full time during the gap year.

My TENATIVE school list is as follows:

• OHSU (in-state)
• UCSF
• UCLA
• Stanford
• Chicago Pritzker
• Mt. Sinai
• Baylor
• USC
• U Colorado
• U Miami
• USF
• UCF
• Case
• Ohio State
• U Cincinnati
• Einstein
• Tufts
• Gtown
• Temple
• Kaiser

Thanks again for your assistance 🙂

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[Faha]

You have a good list and should receive several interviews. You could add any of these schools:
Washington University
Pittsburgh
U Michigan
Duke
Mayo (both schools)
NYU
Boston University
Brown
Dartmouth

 

[mr-dookie]

Thanks for replying! how many total "top tier" schools should I add to this current list? i honestly didn't expect to score this well on the MCAT and the idea of me applying to t20s is still a little strange.

 

[LeaveNoTrace]

Assuming you get that clinical experience, figure 10 top-20s, 10 midtiers, and your state schools.

 

[mr-dookie]

Thanks for your reply.
any other thoughts? @Goro @LizzyM @gyngyn

 

[Goro]

Hey everyone, this is my first post on here and I'm hoping to get some help for the upcoming application cycle in June. I have started to make a rough draft school list, and I would love any tips you guys have for me. My stats are as follows:

1. cGPA: 3.8 sGPA: 3.75
2. MCAT: 521 (130/130/129/132)
3. State of residence: OR
4. White ORM
5. Undergrad: State school (currently a senior
6. Clinical experience: 115 hours at a children's hospital
7. Research: Will be about 250 hours total (maybe 300) with 2 posters and 1 honors thesis
8. Shadowing: 12 hours ortho (have plans over winter break to get around 50 with anesthesiology and primary care)
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 200 hours Special Olympics coach, 50 hours talking to low SES kids about college, 25 on a non-profit board of directors
10. Other extracurricular activities: 400 hours as Scholarship and Recruitment chair for fraternity, IM sports all 4 years
11. Employment: 700 hours as a Student Ambassador for the psych department

In addition to this, I will be getting a job as a scribe in the next couple of months, that will be around 10 hours a week until graduation, then full time during the gap year.

My TENATIVE school list is as follows:

• OHSU (in-state)
• UCSF
• UCLA
• Stanford
• Chicago Pritzker
• Mt. Sinai
• Baylor
• USC
• U Colorado
• U Miami
• USF
• UCF
• Case
• Ohio State
• U Cincinnati
• Einstein
• Tufts
• Gtown
• Temple
• Kaiser

Thanks again for your assistance 🙂

I recommend:
ORHS
NYU
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
U Chicago
U Penn
Northwestern
UCSF
UCLA
UCSD
Columbia
Harvard
Stanford
Mayo
Cornell
Sinai
BU
U VA
Duke
Baylor
Case
U MI
Albert Einstein
Hofstra
Ohio State
Pitt
U Cincy
USF Morsani
Dartmouth
Rochester
USC/Keck
Western MI
Emory
Jefferson
Miami
SLU
Tufts
U IA
U VM

 

[mr-dookie]

thanks for replying! i appreciate the feedback. is there anything i should be doing to boost my chances before june? besides obviously getting the scribe job

 

[LeaveNoTrace]

You might get more or more varied clinical volunteering, but that is pure icing on the cake: follow through with your plans and you're competitive for Harvard.

 

[mr-dookie]

Ok after talking to a bunch of people and getting separate opinions I am modified my list to this. Please nitpick. I welcome any suggestions on schools I should add/remove, as well as if I should be applying to more schools overall. Thanks again for your help guys 🙂

• OHSU
• WashU
• UCLA
• UCSF
• Vanderbilt
• UChicago
• Northwestern
• Duke
• Mt. Sinai
• Case
• Pitt
• UVA
• Boston U
• Ohio State
• Cincy
• USF
• Einstein
• Hofstra
• USC
• Emory
• Miami
• Colorado
• Tufts

 

[Faha]

You should receive several interviews from you new list.

 

[mr-dookie]

here's an update on my cycle thus far. To be honest I was expecting to get a few more interviews and I am kind of nervous where I stand as of now as the cycle is coming to a close. Does anyone have any insight on if I was missing anything or where I might have messed up?

this was my hours I put on AMCAS, see above for details.
Clinical- 320 hours, 1500 projected
Non-clinical volunteering- 400 hours
Research- 300 hours, 2 posters 1 thesis
Leadership- 400 hours
Other Employment- 1000 hours
Shadowing - 40 hours

My school list was: Columbia, Duke, UCSF, U Chicago, U Penn, Wash U, Case, Mt. Sinai, NYU, Northwestern, UCLA, U Michigan, Pitt, Vandy, Cornell, Einstein, Boston, Emory, Hofstra, Ohio state, Rochester, USC, Virginia, OHSU, Cincy, Kaiser

I recieved 3 II's to Duke, OHSU, and Ohio state. Got post II deferral by Ohio state and am waiting to hear post interview from Duke and OHSU. I have 10 Pre II rejections, which means I haven't heard from 13 schools.

 

[Lifeblood_20]

Hey mr-dookie, sorry that your cycle isn't going as well as you had hoped. However, with 3 interviews, including OSU who has a 75%+ post-II acceptance rate, I'd wager that you will get in. Hang in there.

 

[LeaveNoTrace]

You still might get an interview invite in March. Also, there's a good chance you'll be accepted to one school: interviews three, a doctor you'll be.