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Hey all, so I didn't get much luck in responses from my last thread. Check out my MDApplicants profile. I'm a PA resident and live in Philadelphia, so I'm obviously applying to all of the Pennsylvania schools.
I have a long list that is top heavy for my stats/scores, but I think I have respectable ECs, excellent research experience, and a few stellar LORs so I've decided to just give them all a shot. Can't hurt trying? Ideal location is important for me, which is probably staying in the NE U.S. to be near my family or moving to California (where a lot of extended family and friends live). Some of my advisers have recommended Chicago schools, but I'm not so sure about living in the Mid-West and unsure if I should apply to additionally ultra-competitive schools if I'm not really confident I'd go there over lesser schools closer to the coast.
---> Reach/Dream Schools
Columbia
Cornell Weill (Top Choice)
Emory
Georgetown
Harvard
Mt. Sinai
NYU
Stanford University (Top Choice)
UC-SF
University of Pennsylvania (Top Choice)
Yale
Brown? (not sure if I should add)
---> Upper Match Schools
Boston University
Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University (yay jews!)
George Washington University
Jefferson Medical College (Top Choice)
Penn State University
Tufts University
USC-Kent (should this be a reach?)
---> Lower Match
Temple University
Drexel University
I have a long list that is top heavy for my stats/scores, but I think I have respectable ECs, excellent research experience, and a few stellar LORs so I've decided to just give them all a shot. Can't hurt trying? Ideal location is important for me, which is probably staying in the NE U.S. to be near my family or moving to California (where a lot of extended family and friends live). Some of my advisers have recommended Chicago schools, but I'm not so sure about living in the Mid-West and unsure if I should apply to additionally ultra-competitive schools if I'm not really confident I'd go there over lesser schools closer to the coast.
---> Reach/Dream Schools
Columbia
Cornell Weill (Top Choice)
Emory
Georgetown
Harvard
Mt. Sinai
NYU
Stanford University (Top Choice)
UC-SF
University of Pennsylvania (Top Choice)
Yale
Brown? (not sure if I should add)
---> Upper Match Schools
Boston University
Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University (yay jews!)
George Washington University
Jefferson Medical College (Top Choice)
Penn State University
Tufts University
USC-Kent (should this be a reach?)
---> Lower Match
Temple University
Drexel University