Help with reapplicant school list (3.6 GPA, 515 MCAT)

[flippermccoys]

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Hey everyone I’m reapplying this cycle with a few more ECs and a better MCAT score, and I was hoping I could get some advice on my school list.


Stats:

Virginia resident

sGPA- 3.66

cGPA- 3.60

2017 MCAT - 507

2018 MCAT - 515 (127/130/128/130)


During undergrad:

I shadowed 3 physicians (orthopedics, family practice, rad onc)

Volunteered at an organization similar to Ronald McDonald House (medical patients can stay there during treatment)

Volunteered at an animal shelter

Helped create/run a biology research lab on a certain amphibian species

Lifeguarded over the summer


After graduation (and since my last application):

Worked as a medical scribe at a urologist’s office for 4 months

Started volunteering at a hospice center

Got trained as a certified phlebotomy technician

Working as a phlebotomist at a blood bank

Will be taking a 1 year Master’s program at EVMS from Fall-Spring


Here’s my list:


1. Drexel

2. NYMC

3. Virginia Commonwealth University

4. George Washington University

5. Georgetown

6. Temple

7. University of Vermont

8. Thomas Jefferson

9. Brown

10. Eastern Virginia Medical School

11. Emory

12. Albert Einstein

13. Case Western

14. Columbia

15. Mt. Sinai

16. Vanderbilt

17. Washington U in St Louis

18. UCLA

19. University of Virginia

20. Dartmouth


I know there are some reaches in there but is it *too* top heavy? Are there any schools that anyone suggests I should remove or add to my list?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Master Thinker]

Brown takes most of their students from their undergrad or other Ivys. UCLA takes very few OOS. Columbia, Vandy, and WUSTL stats are very high. I am just another premed though...

 

[Faha]

You can remove Washington U, Vanderbilt, Mount Sinai and Columbia which are reaches. UCLA accepts few non residents. You could add these schools:
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Wake Forest
Seton Hall
Quinnipiac
Oakland Beaumont
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin