Med School List Help. 3.95 sGPA 510 MCAT

[king17887]

Hey everyone! I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a critical review of my med school list. I just want to make sure I'm doing well with targeting schools that I will fit best in. Thanks in advance!



Stats: Resident of AL,
cGPA: 3.97, sGPA: 3.95
MCAT: 510
Research: 1600 hrs - 1 Publication
Hospice: 180 hrs
Shadowing: 110 hours; 4 different specialties.
TA: 600 hrs
Community Volunteering: 150 hrs
Children's Hospital Vol.: 30 hrs
WARS: 70

List:

UAB
University of South Alabama

Einstein
Drexel
Emory
Dartmouth
Temple
Medical College of Wisconsin
SUNY - Downstate of NY
University of Illinois
University of Maryland
Wisconsin Madison
West Virginia
UNC - Chapel Hill
Penn State
Rush
Wake Forest
University of Indiana
Toledo
Vermont
Duke

Let me know if you think I should add/remove anything from the list!

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[MyOdyssey]

Hey everyone! I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a critical review of my med school list. I just want to make sure I'm doing well with targeting schools that I will fit best in. Thanks in advance!



Stats: Resident of AL,
cGPA: 3.97, sGPA: 3.95
MCAT: 510
Research: 1600 hrs - 1 Publication
Hospice: 180 hrs
Shadowing: 110 hours; 4 different specialties.
TA: 600 hrs
Community Volunteering: 150 hrs
Children's Hospital Vol.: 30 hrs
WARS: 70

List:

UAB
University of South Alabama

Einstein
Drexel
Emory
Dartmouth
Temple
Medical College of Wisconsin
SUNY - Downstate of NY
University of Illinois
University of Maryland
Wisconsin Madison
West Virginia
UNC - Chapel Hill
Penn State
Rush
Wake Forest
University of Indiana
Toledo
Vermont
Duke

Let me know if you think I should add/remove anything from the list!

You have a huge number of state schools from states other than your own. Most state schools give a heavy preference to their in state residents. If you exclude those and reaches like Duke and Emory, you have very few match schools on your list.

I suggest trying to target private med schools where your stats fit. Are you applying to all your state medical schools? You should.

You should use this time to do a lot of clinical volunteering. 30 hours is too few. Shadowing is not a substitute for that.

 

[Faha]

Schools such as U Wisconsin, Illinois, UNC, SUNY Downstate, Maryland, Toledo accept few non residents with no connection to the state or region. Duke, Emory and Dartmouth are reaches. You could add these schools:
Rosalind Franklin
TCU-UNT
NOVA MD
George Washington
Jefferson
Seton Hall
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac
Oakland Beaumont

 

[king17887]

Schools such as U Wisconsin, Illinois, UNC, SUNY Downstate, Maryland, Toledo accept few non residents with no connection to the state or region. Duke, Emory and Dartmouth are reaches. You could add these schools:
Rosalind Franklin
TCU-UNT
NOVA MD
George Washington
Jefferson
Seton Hall
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac
Oakland Beaumont

MSAR shows they're quite OOS friendly, though. Should I still not waste my time? And a lot of schools you listed are low yield and I'm worried about having too many low yield schools on my list. How many is too many? Thanks for your insight.

 

[king17887]

You have a huge number of state schools from states other than your own. Most state schools give a heavy preference to their in state residents. If you exclude those and reaches like Duke and Emory, you have very few match schools on your list.

I suggest trying to target private med schools where your stats fit. Are you applying to all your state medical schools? You should.

You should use this time to do a lot of clinical volunteering. 30 hours is too few. Shadowing is not a substitute for that.

Noted, thank you! Also, I have 180 hospice hours which counts as clinical. Is the 220 okay?

 

[MyOdyssey]

Noted, thank you! Also, I have 180 hospice hours which counts as clinical. Is the 220 okay?

I think that's slightly above average with average being about 150 clinical volunteering hours for those not taking a gap year.

 

[Faha]

OOS friendly is relative. Those OOS numbers include those who attended the undergraduate school (all schools give a preference to their own undergraduates), legacies, former residents, veterans, URM. Low yield schools are not low yield for an applicant with a MCAT of 510. If your MCAT was 522 it would be low yield.

 

[king17887]

OOS friendly is relative. Those OOS numbers include those who attended the undergraduate school (all schools give a preference to their own undergraduates), legacies, former residents, veterans, URM. Low yield schools are not low yield for an applicant with a MCAT of 510. If your MCAT was 522 it would be low yield.

If I were trying to keep my list below 23 which schools would you remove and add?

 

[Faha]

Keep these
UAB
University of South Alabama

Einstein
Drexel
Temple
Medical College of Wisconsin
West Virginia
Penn State
Rush
Wake Forest
University of Indiana
Vermont
Add the ones I suggested