MD Help w/MD school list? High GPA/MCAT

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[Walter Raleigh]

You look like what @Goro would call a rock star, so aim high. You've got stellar grades, a near-perfect MCAT, and very good ECs. Pick your state schools and any other California schools you like, including Stanford.

 

[precisiongraphic]

What is your cGPA/sGPA on a 4.0 scale?

If you indeed have a 3.9+ GPA then you have a shot at all the California MD schools and a handful of top-20. Your goal is to look at all these schools and see if you fit the mission and then craft your Personal Statement and secondaries to highlight your strengths and your "fit" with the mission of each school. Use the MSAR and all applicable school application sites to suss out their wants/needs in potential students. Then decide how many schools you want to apply to and pick those outside of California with care.

Hi everyone, just looking for a suggested school list for the upcoming application cycle in 2018. I hope to stay within CA so I will definitely be applying to almost all CA schools.

cGPa: 4.94 (sGPA: 4.86ish?)
MCAT: 527 (132/131/132/131)
California resident
ORM
Top-tier public university for undergrad
Not planning to take a gap year

200 hrs - scribing
400 hrs - volunteering in hospital and surveying patients for clinical research org; leadership position

1000+ hrs - working in basic science research lab; 2 posters; several research scholarships

600 hrs - volunteering and organizing free clinical services and English lessons for underserved community; leadership position
500 hrs - teaching science to minority students in summer program

100 hrs - MCAT instructor
50 hrs - mentoring younger undergrad students

30 hrs? - shadowing various physicians (not including scribing)

Have won a couple small scholarships at my school as well.

Not sure exactly what I want to do after medical school but I’m thinking of research or teaching as an attending physician. Might consider some public health work too.

 

[Goro]

Agree with Walt. Start with the California schools including Stanford and Keck and then work your way outward

Hi everyone, just looking for a suggested school list for the upcoming application cycle in 2018. I hope to stay within CA so I will definitely be applying to almost all CA schools.

cGPa: 4.94 (sGPA: 4.86ish?)
MCAT: 527 (132/131/132/131)
California resident
ORM
Top-tier public university for undergrad
Not planning to take a gap year

200 hrs - scribing
400 hrs - volunteering in hospital and surveying patients for clinical research org; leadership position

1000+ hrs - working in basic science research lab; 2 posters; several research scholarships

600 hrs - volunteering and organizing free clinical services and English lessons for underserved community; leadership position
500 hrs - teaching science to minority students in summer program

100 hrs - MCAT instructor
50 hrs - mentoring younger undergrad students

30 hrs? - shadowing various physicians (not including scribing)

Have won a couple small scholarships at my school as well.

Not sure exactly what I want to do after medical school but I’m thinking of research or teaching as an attending physician. Might consider some public health work too.

 

[Goro]

Hi everyone, just looking for a suggested school list for the upcoming application cycle in 2018. I hope to stay within CA so I will definitely be applying to almost all CA schools.

cGPa: 4.94 (sGPA: 4.86ish?)
MCAT: 527 (132/131/132/131)
California resident
ORM
Top-tier public university for undergrad
Not planning to take a gap year

200 hrs - scribing
400 hrs - volunteering in hospital and surveying patients for clinical research org; leadership position

1000+ hrs - working in basic science research lab; 2 posters; several research scholarships

600 hrs - volunteering and organizing free clinical services and English lessons for underserved community; leadership position
500 hrs - teaching science to minority students in summer program

100 hrs - MCAT instructor
50 hrs - mentoring younger undergrad students

30 hrs? - shadowing various physicians (not including scribing)

Have won a couple small scholarships at my school as well.

Not sure exactly what I want to do after medical school but I’m thinking of research or teaching as an attending physician. Might consider some public health work too.

I suggest the following:
Wash U
U Chicago
NYU
U Penn
Vanderbilt
Columbia
Sinai
Cornell
Northwestern
Case
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
JHU
U VA
U MI
U AZ
U VM
U WI
U Cincy
Ohio State
U IA
UCSF
UCLA,
UCSD,
UCI,
UCR (IF you’re from the Inland Empire)
Miami
Tulane
Albert Einstein
Emory
BU
USC/Keck
Mayo
Rochester
Dartmouth
Duke
Pitt
Hofstra

 

[shizdawiz]

What is your cGPA/sGPA on a 4.0 scale?

If you indeed have a 3.9+ GPA then you have a shot at all the California MD schools and a handful of top-20. Your goal is to look at all these schools and see if you fit the mission and then craft your Personal Statement and secondaries to highlight your strengths and your "fit" with the mission of each school. Use the MSAR and all applicable school application sites to suss out their wants/needs in potential students. Then decide how many schools you want to apply to and pick those outside of California with care.

Sorry was a typo - just updated my post. Yes that was on a 4.0 scale!

 

[shizdawiz]

I suggest the following:
Wash U
U Chicago
NYU
U Penn
Vanderbilt
Columbia
Sinai
Cornell
Northwestern
Case
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
JHU
U VA
U MI
U AZ
U VM
U WI
U Cincy
Ohio State
U IA
UCSF
UCLA,
UCSD,
UCI,
UCR (IF you’re from the Inland Empire)
Miami
Tulane
Albert Einstein
Emory
BU
USC/Keck
Mayo
Rochester
Dartmouth
Duke
Pitt
Hofstra

Are these schools listed in any particular order?

 

[Goro]

Are these schools listed in any particular order?

No

 

[Walter Raleigh]

Sorry was a typo - just updated my post. Yes that was on a 4.0 scale!

When I first saw that 4.xx GPA, I wondered if you were a California resident from a very famous engineering school on the East Coast that calculated GPAs on a 5.0 scale.