My list is too long, can you help me scratch some schools?

[beaverfetus]

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I applied to 28 schools, and I have 6 interviews set up so far. I've come to the conclusion that I need to calm down and scratch some schools if I plan on learning anything/ passing my courses this semester. Can you please help me find some schools to kill? Idealy I want to attend a prestigious school in an urban location on the east coast. Location can be trumped by prestige. I also want to specialize in some type of surgery, so primary care is not my thing. Any school in NYC will not be dropped, and I'm going to attend the interview's I've scheduled...If you see a school that I haven't done a secondary at I'd be particularly inclined to drop it. Appilcation fee/ travel expenses aren't really considerations for me. thank you in advance.


here's the list:


Boston University
Brown University
Columbia University -
Cornell University -
Dartmouth College
Emory University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University -
Northwestern University
Stanford University
University of Chicago - application on hold
University of Maryland
University of Michigan -
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
Yale University
Mount Sinai
Wash u

Interview's
Case Western Reserve University -
George Washington University -
Tufts University
University of Pittsburgh -
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University

Haven't done secondaries yet:

emory
stanford
dartmouth
brown
colombia
harvard

 

[ADeadLois]

Idealy I want to attend a prestigious school in an urban location on the east coast.

Yes, and so do a majority of medical school applicants.

You have interviews at some very solid schools already. Honestly? I would maybe submit secondaries to as many of the schools as you feel like doing. You have such a comprehensive list of good schools that it's hard to say which ones are better than others. Since you got a ton of interviews already, I'm sure your stats are good. Throw in a few safety schools and you'll be fine.

 

[beaverfetus]

Yes, and so do a majority of medical school applicants.

You have interviews at some very solid schools already. Honestly? I would maybe submit secondaries to as many of the schools as you feel like doing. You have such a comprehensive list of good schools that it's hard to say which ones are better than others. Since you got a ton of interviews already, I'm sure your stats are good. Throw in a few safety schools and you'll be fine.

Thanks for the response. I'm actually planning on elminating some of the "safer" schools on my list that I'm not interviewing at yet. With 6 interview's I think applying to a school just for an increased chance of getting in seems nonsensical. The problem is, all of the school's on my list seem pretty attractive to me. Can anyone venture some more specific advice? Anyone visit one of these school's and get a bad impression?

 

[inrevertias]

Take off Brown. A large proportion of their class is from their undergrad-med program if I remember correctly.

 

[Chuckwalla]

Yes, and so do a majority of medical school applicants.

I agree, join the club.

 

[beaverfetus]

Take off Brown. A large proportion of their class is from their undergrad-med program if I remember correctly.

aren't they also more primary care focused? I'm not sure where I'm getting that from...

 

[honker]

I applied to 28 schools, and I have 6 interviews set up so far. I've come to the conclusion that I need to calm down and scratch some schools if I plan on learning anything/ passing my courses this semester. Can you please help me find some schools to kill? Idealy I want to attend a prestigious school in an urban location on the east coast. Location can be trumped by prestige. I also want to specialize in some type of surgery, so primary care is not my thing. Any school in NYC will not be dropped, and I'm going to attend the interview's I've scheduled...If you see a school that I haven't done a secondary at I'd be particularly inclined to drop it. Appilcation fee/ travel expenses aren't really considerations for me. thank you in advance.


here's the list:


Boston University
Brown University
Columbia University -
Cornell University -
Dartmouth College
Emory University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University -
Northwestern University
Stanford University
University of Chicago - application on hold
University of Maryland
University of Michigan -
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
Yale University
Mount Sinai
Wash u

Interview's
Case Western Reserve University -
George Washington University -
Tufts University
University of Pittsburgh -
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University

Haven't done secondaries yet:

emory
stanford
dartmouth
brown
colombia
harvard

If you want to pare down your list to focus on more likely successes and save some money, eliminate Stanford, Harvard, JHU,and Wash U.,and Yale.
Your GPA is a liability at these highly selective schools.

 

[skypilot]

I guess if I had to drop schools I would drop those that are a great distance since travel time can eat into your schedule.

Other than that, each interview takes about a day so I wouldn't begin to drop schools until you have at least 10 interviews set up. It is ok to drop a school after they have already granted you an interview.

 

[DoctaJay]

I would drop the state schools below. All of them are good, but most of them don't compare in prestige to some of the schools you've already gotten invterviews to. All in all, I would say, that with 6 interviews already, you should put the cap at 10 schools, so only choose 4 more.

University of Chicago - application on hold
University of Maryland
University of Michigan -
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester

 

[NovemberWhiskey]

I would drop the state schools below. All of them are good, but most of them don't compare in prestige to some of the schools you've already gotten invterviews to. All in all, I would say, that with 6 interviews already, you should put the cap at 10 schools, so only choose 4 more.

University of Chicago - application on hold
University of Maryland
University of Michigan -
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester

Jay, you realize that Mich and Penn are some of the highest ranked schools in the country right?

Beaver, I would drop Harvard and Stanford... A white guy with no EC's and a low(er) GPA is (unfortunately) not what they are looking for. I am also not going to turn the secondaries in...

 

[beaverfetus]

If you want to pare down your list to focus on more likely successes and save some money, eliminate Stanford, Harvard, JHU,and Wash U.,and Yale.
Your GPA is a liability at these highly selective schools.

I already said money isn't an issue, and my gpa has been over a 3.8 since freshman year. Dropping reaches makes no sense for me; I'm worried about having to miss too much school to attend interviews at schools that I wont end up matriculating at. If I got a interview from stanford I could stand to miss a day.

 

[beaverfetus]

well I think i'm going to drop:

brown- because it takes too many undergraduates from brown, and according to their match list they are pretty primary care oriented

dartmouth- the teaching hopsital is "rural", not what I'm looking for

harvard- very selective, and I would need to take another semester of calculus for an outside shot

 

[Falco2525]

I would drop the state schools below. All of them are good, but most of them don't compare in prestige to some of the schools you've already gotten invterviews to. All in all, I would say, that with 6 interviews already, you should put the cap at 10 schools, so only choose 4 more.

University of Chicago - application on hold
University of Maryland
University of Michigan -
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester

uhhhh the University of Chicago is Private not public and is prestigious...but okay

 

[Law2Doc]

I would drop the state schools below. All of them are good, but most of them don't compare in prestige to some of the schools you've already gotten invterviews to. All in all, I would say, that with 6 interviews already, you should put the cap at 10 schools, so only choose 4 more.

University of Chicago - application on hold
University of Maryland
University of Michigan -
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester

Penn isn't a state school (it's a private ivy), and is currently ranked third by US News...🙄

 

[Severus]

Penn isn't a state school (it's a private ivy), and is currently ranked third by US News...🙄

NOT PENN STATE!!!!

it's such a great t-shirt, really...

 

[riceman04]

Jay, you realize that Mich and Penn are some of the highest ranked schools in the country right?

Beaver, I would drop Harvard and Stanford... A white guy with no EC's and a low(er) GPA is (unfortunately) not what they are looking for. I am also not going to turn the secondaries in...

you ever flown on that 752 (757-200 series)? What about the 300 series?

NW airlines is so cheap with their airline purchases...they still fly DC-10's...in Europe...what the hell!!!!!!!!

It is all about Continental!