Help with list! Need Additional Schools! URM 515 3.75 3.64

[ChanceTheDoctor]

Background: African-American Male. Southern-California. Lower Ivy League
GPA: Undergrad cGPA: 3.75 BPCM 3.64 (Upward trend, cGPA 3.9 BPCM 3.85 after freshman year)
Major: Human Biology w/ Health Policy minor
MCAT: 515 MCAT 129 126 128 132
EC:
-Shadowing: 75 hours
-Minority Mentorship program: 1 year
-Teaching Assistant: 1 semester
-Research Lab: 1.5 years (not published lol)
-Clinical Research: Summer
-Residential Advisor: 2 years
-Abroad research and volunteering in Dominican Republic: Summer
-In-patient volunteer: 1 year
-VP of Intercultural/Multicultural Board: 2 year
-Community center volunteer halloween event coordinator: 1 every 3 years
-Hobbies (Tennis Photography): 4 years
-Fraternity: 3 years

List(I feel like everything is a super reach! Need some suggestions!!)

- Albert Einstein
- Baylor
- Columbia
- Drexel
- Emory
- Harvard
- Howard
- Mount Sinai
- Keck/USC
- Perelman/UPenn
- SUNY Upstate
- Stanford
- Tufts
- UC San Diego
- UC San Francisco
- UC Riverside
- UC Irvine
- UC Davis
- UCLA (Geffen)
- UCLA (Drew)
- University of Washington
- Weill Cornell
- Yale

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[gyngyn]

Your list is fine as is.

 

[NeuroSoph75]

If you want to expand you could add some more mid-tiers such as:

Dartmouth
BU
Case Western
Rochester
Jefferson

Good luck!

 

[NeuroSoph75]

Also, Baylor has a heavy in-state preference and I believe University of Washington does as well, might want to check MSAR.

 

[gyngyn]

Also, Baylor has a heavy in-state preference and I believe University of Washington does as well, might want to check MSAR.

They do, but there are so few African American men in the applicant pool that OP is a strong candidate at these schools too.

 

[libertyyne]

Yup, 515 means you are good anywhere. That is like 2 sd's above the AA median.