Help Selecting Schools

[Darthritis]

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Hi guys, I'd really appreciate your help selecting schools. Location doesn't matter to me at all. Even an estimate of how many per "tier" I should apply to would be helpful...I'm not even sure if MSTPs have tiers heh

GPA: ~3.5
MCAT: 36R
Research: 4 yrs, 10 pubs (7 are 2nd or 3rd author, 3 are first author)
School: top 10 school...not sure if this matters

I'm looking at some programs on the west coast right now. So far I have:

UCSF
UCSD
UCLA
UTSW
UChicago
Northwestern
U of Washington

Thanks guys I appreciate any help sorting this out.

 

[Darthritis]

ok I looked at a few more programs. Here is my list so far:

UCSF
UCSD
UCLA
UTSW
UChicago
Northwestern
U of Washington
Wash U
Harvard
UPenn
Johns Hopkins
Baylor
Stanford
Duke
USC
Yale
Georgetown
Emory
UIC
U of Michigan
Columbia
NYU
Case Western

So that's my list so far. Gotta trim down from 23 because that's an insane amount of secondaries. Anywhere I def shouldn't apply with my scores? Thanks.

 

[Neuronix]

So that's my list so far. Gotta trim down from 23 because that's an insane amount of secondaries. Anywhere I def shouldn't apply with my scores? Thanks.

This post also applies to you: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=8481095&postcount=145

Nobody here can tell you which schools you have no chance at. But this should give you some idea about "tier". It's about as much as I can tell you, anyways.

 

[Darthritis]

thanks man, I see you post a lot of helpful stuff here.

 

[Shifty B]

I think you should be ok with that list of programs or slightly fewer. Your GPA is probably the weakest part of your application, and if you go to a big name undergrad then that definitely helps. It's definitely better to do too many secondaries though and then turn down interviews than later wish you had more interviews.

 

[Darthritis]

Thanks for the advice, it will help me survive the rush of secondaries...submitting in 2 days...ahh

 

[Darthritis]

yeah so I'm trying to finish this AMCAS monster and cut it down to 20 schools, but looking at their average GPAs they all seem to be reaches to me. After factoring in location it helped, but now I'm stuck with a bunch of impossible to get into schools. Do any of these places have GPA cut offs? Also 20 schools is so much money man...geez