MCAT 29 - 3.53 BCPM 3.62 overall

I hope you are from a "good" state?

 

If you are not SDA or from the IE, you are much more likely to be accepted OOS.
Would you care to share your list?
Is this your first application?

 

7th Day Adventist.
I count 7 schools where you have a fair chance of an interview. That's a little scanty for a CA applicant with your stats. Rutgers has never taken a CA applicant to my knowledge and you are an extreme long shot for many others on your list (including IS schools). It would be reasonable to identify another handful of schools where you might get an interview, stat.

 

I see this theory every day that I screen. It makes me sad. We don't need your secondary fee as much as you do. Screening is not random, like the lotto.
A "reach" is a school where you have at least a 5-10% chance and a reason to believe that you will be considered for more than a moment...
I know it's too late this cycle for the schools where you have already submitted a secondary. I hope this observation won't be needed in the future.

 

Heed the very sound counsel of my very wise colleague gyngyn. Your MCAT is below avg and will hurt except at the bottom ot the low-tier schools.

Of your list, you best chances are:


Loyola university
FIU
Temple University
Penn state
Nymc
Jefferson
Georgetown
Ucf
Drexel


For next years cycle, invest in MSAR and target schools whose median MCAT score is closest to your own.

You're fine for any DO program, and so TUCOM-CA and Western are in your backyard.

 

How would one go about identifying those reach schools where you'd have a 5-10% chance? For example, I have a 29 mcat also and a gpa of 3.88. What kind of schools would be my reaches? Would I just disregard gpa and look for ones with a 10th percentile mcat that matches mine?

OP - Have you considered adding Rosalind Franklin or Rush?

 

This would be a fine way to identify appropriate reaches. Make sure that you are not marginalized for another common reason, though (%OOS, mission...).