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swanthumb898

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Hey everyone. Hope your days are nice. I think I applied to way too many schools and I wanted to see if you had any advice on schools that are obvious keep or toss?


cGPA: 3.71 (not AMCAS verified yet) MCAT: 508 (130/125/125/128)

NJ Resident, ORM
Flagship State School with its own Medical School
EDIT: Philosophy Major Natural Sciences Minor

Clinical Experience: Volunteer EMT(500 hours)
Research: 11 weeks of full time research in Maternal Fetal Care Unit at Children's Hospital of Colorado (CHCO). Returning to same Position in gap year for longer stretch of time. Pending publication for novel patient assessment device.
Shadowing: 70 hours of in-utero procedures at CHCO; 7 hours of Orthopedic Surgery Shadowing at CHCO; 6 hours of Colon Surgery Shadowing at Temple.
Non-Clinical Volunteering: Volunteer at homeless shelter (10 hours). Pediatric Cancer Philanthropy at UG school (400 hours).
Extracurricular: 18 years of classical and jazz piano study/member of several bands. TA for physics and biology (200 hours). Medic for 100mile biking trip for 15-year olds/counselor at a summer camp for 15 year-olds (800 hours). Pending publication on Cookbook for gourmet healthy college budget foods (100 hours). Club Snowboard (500 hours) and Club Ultimate Frisbee (520 hours)

School List
Albany Medical College
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Drexel University College of Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Frank H. Netter MD School at Quinnipiac University
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo
Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
New York Medical College
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson
University of Colorado School of Medicine
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Wayne State University School of Medicine
 
You have many public state schools on your list that accept few non residents with your MCAT and no connection to the state. Some of your schools are unrealistic far reaches. These are schools from your list where you could receive interviews:
Albany Medical College
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Drexel University College of Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Frank H. Netter MD School at Quinnipiac University
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
New York Medical College
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Wayne State University School of Medicine
You could add these schools
Oakland Beaumont
Rosalind Franklin
TCU-UNT
NOVA MD