General Help with school list please! Applying this cycle

[Goro]

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ORM, DC Resident
Cum GPA: 3.97; BCPM GPA: 3.96
Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude
MCAT: 518 (128/129/129/132)
Gap year: NIH IRTA fellow, multiple sclerosis research

Research: 750 hrs Parkinson’s research in at well-known primate center
-completed senior thesis with highest honors
-co author on 2 abstracts
-orally presented poster at Society for Neuroscience conference

Shadowing: 160 hrs
-with neurologists in a movement disorders clinic

Volunteering: 200 hrs
-cancer clinic, ER, public health global brigades trip

Other:
-Wrote and edited for undergraduate medical journal (4 semesters)
-summer intern at health technology start up and wrote intro and discussion for 3 research studies on eye movements as bio markers for traumatic brain injury (one will published this summer)
-proficient in French (studied abroad twice)

Potential school list:
WashU
Penn
Columbia
Harvard

Northwestern
Cornell
Mt. Sinai
Duke
Michigan
Boston U
Case
Baylor
UCSF or UCLA (worth it OOS?)
Pitt
Emory
Tufts

Einstein
Thomas Jefferson
Georgetown
Rush
Drexel
Temple
GW

I suggest getting in some service to others less fortunate than yourself. No more shadowing either. 160 hrs is overkill. The overseas mission will likely be viewed as medical tourism, and so suggest getting in a little more clinical exposure as well.

Suggest these schools:
NYU
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
U Penn
Northwestern
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
U MD
USC/Keck
Western MI
Emory
Jefferson
Miami
SLU
Tufts
U IA
U VM

 

[Goro]

Thanks so much! Would you say it’s not worth it to apply to UCLA or UCSF out of state? And what about Drexel, Temple, and Rush—why weren’t those on the suggested list?

UCLA and UCSF are service loving schools.

Rush LOVES service

Drexel/Temple and other Albany class schools will resource protect you. They figure, based upon historic norms, that will will go elsewhere.

 

[Goro]

Great thanks! And it’s not too much of a reach to apply to so many top tier schools?

Nope. Just balance them out with some Keck and Einstein class schools.