Low GPA, High MCAT

[CoastIntoMedSchool]

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1. cGPA 3.46 and sGPA 3.39
2. MCAT 523
3. Caucasian
4. Graduated 2016 from a Top 25 public school, non CA/NY/TX.
5. VA resident
6. Clinical experience: 4000 hours primary care scribe, 200 hours Urology Scribe, 50 hours Orthopedic Surgery Scribe, 50 hours Dermatology scribe. Also have extensive experience training new scribes in these specialties.
7. Research experience and productivity: 2 undergraduate semesters in a neuroradiology lab, no publication.
8. Shadowing experience: None, save for scribing.
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 500 hours with an undergraduate Helpline. 50 hours teaching kids with disabilities how to ride bikes.
10. Currently teach and tutor for ACT/SAT/MCAT (~500 hours total).
11. Student manager of an undergraduate choral group with 15 years of high-level singing experience.
12. Led an undergraduate Moot Court team,finished in the top 10 of a regional tournament, qualified for a national tournament.
13. Anything else not listed you think might be important: I didn't focus much on my studies as an undergraduate, but I've got a decent story of improved commitment to medicine since graduation.

Of note: I'm pretty keen on finding a school with extensive Spanish and French-speaking populations (fluent in both). I've documented patient encounters in Spanish, but not French.

Current list:
UVa
EVMS
VCU
Virginia Tech

USC Keck (top choice)
Boston U
Tufts
Case Western
Miami
Georgetown
GW
UCLA
UCSD
Ohio State
Wisconsin
Einstein
Jefferson

Reach:
NYU
Northwestern
Columbia
Chicago
Harvard

Main Questions: Is there sense in adding more reaches? And are there any schools with an emphasis on hispanic/non-English speaking clinical work that I should be aware of?

 

[Faha]

You could add Mount Sinai, Hofstra, Arizona (Tucson and Phoenix)

 

[CoastIntoMedSchool]

Thanks for the suggestions... I just found the Medical Spanish page on Hofstra's website, it looks like a really cool program that I had been totally unaware of!