Med School List Aid Needed, Non Trad applying June '18 cycle

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Feedback would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance for taking the time to help me out!

ACADEMICS/DEMOGRAPHICS:
3.75 cGPA ;3.87 sGPA
513 MCAT (129 bio/phys, 127 psy, 128 CARS)
California Resident
White Male
Graduated from UCLA June '17, (I will be applying about 2 years after graduating)

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:
Junior Research Specialist, UC Irvine Urology Department (translational graduate research position) 800 hours
EMT, Orange County Accredited, Nationally Registered 180 hours
Lead Volunteer for Wayfinder volunteer program at Ronald Reagan Med Center 250 hours
Medlife mobile medical clinic in Peru, 200 hours

RESEARCH:
Junior Research Specialist, UC Irvine Urology Department
UCLA Neuroscience Lab, (Bench Work)

SHADOWING:
Shadowed ophthalmologist about 20 hours, anesthesiologist about 10, urologist shadowing done through my research position for about 400 hours, shadowed my orthopedist for about 20 hours as well

NON CLINICAL VOLUNTEERING/WORK:
Tutor local elementary, middle, and high school students. Paid and volunteer about 200 hours
Campus Christian Ministry Team Leader about 300 hours
Worked at coffee shop for three years on campus


HOBBIES:
Love to surf, play basketball, hike, work out, also have an unhealthy affinity to video games ahaha

AWARDS/STUFF:
Graduated Cum Laude, Dean's Honor List several quarters, Phi Beta Kappa Honor's Society Member

MISC:
Sigma Chi Fraternity member, held position one year

Rough List of schools I will apply to:

Albert Einstein College of Med
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University
Creighton University School of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Emory University
George Washington University
Hofstra Northwell
Indiana University
Keck School of Medicine USC
Loma Linda University
Loyola University Chicago Stritch
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Irvine
University of California San Diego
University of California Davis
Michigan State University
Oakland University
Penn State
St Louis University of Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
University of Illinois
University of Kentucky
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Frank H. Netter at Quinnipiac U
Jacobs School of Medicine U of Buffalo
Lewis Katz at Temple U
Mayo Medical School
Medical College of Wisconsin
New York Medical College
Thomas Jefferson University, Sidney Kimmel
Oregon University
Tulane University
University of Nevada
University of Washington
Virginia Commonwealth U
Wake Forest
Western Michigan U
Tufts

 

[ciestar]

While I am not great at generating school lists, @Faha is.

Anyway, you have quite a few state schools on there I would remove. Indiana, MSU, Kentucky, Illinois, UWash, just to name a few.

 

[LebronManning]

Yeah you need to take out like 75% of your list lol. I think you will get into UC-Irvine and have a decent shot at UCLA, given you are a good interviewer. You're a fairly competitive applicant; you only need to apply to like 17-22 schools total including the UC's (5-7 safeties, 10 targets, and the UC's), and I think that's on the safer side. If you retook MCAT and got 517+, you'd probably be a shoe in at UCI, great shot at UCLA, with a decent shot at UCSF and other great schools.

You have a bunch of lower tier schools like EVMS, Rosalind Franklin, and low tier state schools on it. Probably just keep a few you like as safeties; you don't need like 20 safeties.

I will be applying about 2 years after graduating

Do you mean attend or apply 2 years after? Applying 2 years after would be applying May 2019, meaning you wouldn't start med school until Aug 2020. Why not just apply this coming cycle (May 2018) to start in Aug 2019.

 

[Faha]

You can remove schools such as Nevada, U Washington, Oregon, U Buffalo, Kentucky, Michigan State that accept few non residents with no connection to the state or region. Otherwise your list is good and you should receive several interviews.

 

[blindmst]

Yeah you need to take out like 75% of your list lol. I think you will get into UC-Irvine and have a decent shot at UCLA, given you are a good interviewer. You're a fairly competitive applicant; you only need to apply to like 17-22 schools total including the UC's (5-7 safeties, 10 targets, and the UC's), and I think that's on the safer side. If you retook MCAT and got 517+, you'd probably be a shoe in at UCI, great shot at UCLA, with a decent shot at UCSF and other great schools.

You have a bunch of lower tier schools like EVMS, Rosalind Franklin, and low tier state schools on it. Probably just keep a few you like as safeties; you don't need like 20 safeties.



Do you mean attend or apply 2 years after? Applying 2 years after would be applying May 2019, meaning you wouldn't start med school until Aug 2020. Why not just apply this coming cycle (May 2018) to start in Aug 2019.

I am applying this coming June, which will be one year after graduating I suppose. My bad 🙂
Thank you for the help!

 

[blindmst]

Thanks for all the help everyone! Stoked people responded haha

 

[Goro]

Feedback would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance for taking the time to help me out!

ACADEMICS/DEMOGRAPHICS:
3.75 cGPA ;3.87 sGPA
513 MCAT (129 bio/phys, 127 psy, 128 CARS)
California Resident
White Male
Graduated from UCLA June '17, (I will be applying about 2 years after graduating)

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:
Junior Research Specialist, UC Irvine Urology Department (translational graduate research position) 800 hours
EMT, Orange County Accredited, Nationally Registered 180 hours
Lead Volunteer for Wayfinder volunteer program at Ronald Reagan Med Center 250 hours
Medlife mobile medical clinic in Peru, 200 hours

RESEARCH:
Junior Research Specialist, UC Irvine Urology Department
UCLA Neuroscience Lab, (Bench Work)

SHADOWING:
Shadowed ophthalmologist about 20 hours, anesthesiologist about 10, urologist shadowing done through my research position for about 400 hours, shadowed my orthopedist for about 20 hours as well

NON CLINICAL VOLUNTEERING/WORK:
Tutor local elementary, middle, and high school students. Paid and volunteer about 200 hours
Campus Christian Ministry Team Leader about 300 hours
Worked at coffee shop for three years on campus


HOBBIES:
Love to surf, play basketball, hike, work out, also have an unhealthy affinity to video games ahaha

AWARDS/STUFF:
Graduated Cum Laude, Dean's Honor List several quarters, Phi Beta Kappa Honor's Society Member

MISC:
Sigma Chi Fraternity member, held position one year

Rough List of schools I will apply to:

Albert Einstein College of Med
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University
Creighton University School of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Emory University
George Washington University
Hofstra Northwell
Indiana University
Keck School of Medicine USC
Loma Linda University
Loyola University Chicago Stritch
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Irvine
University of California San Diego
University of California Davis
Michigan State University
Oakland University
Penn State
St Louis University of Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
University of Illinois
University of Kentucky
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Frank H. Netter at Quinnipiac U
Jacobs School of Medicine U of Buffalo
Lewis Katz at Temple U
Mayo Medical School
Medical College of Wisconsin
New York Medical College
Thomas Jefferson University, Sidney Kimmel
Oregon University
Tulane University
University of Nevada
University of Washington
Virginia Commonwealth U
Wake Forest
Western Michigan U
Tufts

Here's a more realistic list:
UCF (maybe)
Duke (maybe)
U Cincy (maybe)
U VM
Pitt
Mayo
Miami
St. Louis
Albany
Albert Einstein
Rochester
Rush
Rosy Franklin
BU
MCW
Hofstra
NYMC
VCU
EVMS
Wake Forest
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
George Washington
Georgetown
Emory
USC/Keck
Tulane
Dartmouth
Loyola
Netter
Oakland-B
UCI
UCR (IF you're from the Inland Empire)
UCLA
UCD
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)