Hi everybody,
I'm currently a senior (planning on taking a gap year) and I roughly put together a school list using MSAR, but I'm having a hard time narrowing down the list. Any suggestions or advice would be great!
CA resident
cGPA: 3.52
sGPA: 3.42
(upward trend with 3.75+ starting my junior year)
MCAT: 515 (93rd percentile)
At top 20 university, not URM. I am unsure if I will decide to check that I am a disadvantaged applicant. My family has had very difficult financial situations (bankruptcy, losing home) starting my senior year of high school to sophomore year of college. Currently doing better, but family income is still >$30,000. I don't know if I would like to check that I am disadvantaged because I do not want my situations to be an "excuse" for my poor grades freshman and sophomore year. I'm hoping that they can gather that I am disadvantaged by looking at my application and personal statement. (Thoughts?)
500+ volunteer hours (soup kitchens, homeless shelters, tutoring at inner city after-school programs)
100+ clinical hours (abroad)
~50 hrs. shadowing
~400 clinical hours
2 years of research, 1 poster presentation (first author)
4 great LORs (2 science, 1 personal from PI, 1 non-science)
My list is quite long, but I am thinking of applying to somewhere between 25-30. I did get the Fee Assistance Program to help with application fees.
-Boston University
-Rosalind Franklin
-Creighton
-Drexel
-EVMS
-Emory (reach)
-Frank H. Netter at Quinnipiac
-GW
-Georgetown
-Hofstra
-Keck
-Temple
-Loyola Chicago
-MCW
-New York Medical College
-Rush
-Thomas Jefferson
-Toledo
-Tufts
-Tulane
-USF
-UCSD
-UCI
-UCLA
-UCR
-UCSD
-University of Miami Leonard M. Miller
-Rochester
-University of Vermont
-UW (dream school)
-Virginia Commonwealth
-Virginia Tech
-Wake Forest
-Western Michigan Homer Stryker
I'm currently a senior (planning on taking a gap year) and I roughly put together a school list using MSAR, but I'm having a hard time narrowing down the list. Any suggestions or advice would be great!
CA resident
cGPA: 3.52
sGPA: 3.42
(upward trend with 3.75+ starting my junior year)
MCAT: 515 (93rd percentile)
At top 20 university, not URM. I am unsure if I will decide to check that I am a disadvantaged applicant. My family has had very difficult financial situations (bankruptcy, losing home) starting my senior year of high school to sophomore year of college. Currently doing better, but family income is still >$30,000. I don't know if I would like to check that I am disadvantaged because I do not want my situations to be an "excuse" for my poor grades freshman and sophomore year. I'm hoping that they can gather that I am disadvantaged by looking at my application and personal statement. (Thoughts?)
500+ volunteer hours (soup kitchens, homeless shelters, tutoring at inner city after-school programs)
100+ clinical hours (abroad)
~50 hrs. shadowing
~400 clinical hours
2 years of research, 1 poster presentation (first author)
4 great LORs (2 science, 1 personal from PI, 1 non-science)
My list is quite long, but I am thinking of applying to somewhere between 25-30. I did get the Fee Assistance Program to help with application fees.
-Boston University
-Rosalind Franklin
-Creighton
-Drexel
-EVMS
-Emory (reach)
-Frank H. Netter at Quinnipiac
-GW
-Georgetown
-Hofstra
-Keck
-Temple
-Loyola Chicago
-MCW
-New York Medical College
-Rush
-Thomas Jefferson
-Toledo
-Tufts
-Tulane
-USF
-UCSD
-UCI
-UCLA
-UCR
-UCSD
-University of Miami Leonard M. Miller
-Rochester
-University of Vermont
-UW (dream school)
-Virginia Commonwealth
-Virginia Tech
-Wake Forest
-Western Michigan Homer Stryker