Need help deciding OOS schools for this cycle

[Cubandood]

---

Members don't see this ad.

cGPA: 3.95
sGPA: 3.96
MCAT: 511 (130/125/128/128)
State of residency: Florida
Ethnicity: Hispanic (Born in Cuba)
Undergrad: public Florida university

Clinical experience:
100 hrs volunteer at hospital
1,500 hours as medical scribe

Research experience:
300 hours. Was a research assistant in a lab for my public university for two semesters. Did all the basic procedures like PCR, blotting, etc but never got my own project. Just assisted around the lab during my time here. Built a good understanding of lab techniques but that's about it.
*Plan on doing some clinical research during gap year

Shadowing experience:
80 hours shadowing cardiologist
20 hours shadowing general surgeon in his outpatient clinic.

Nonclinical volunteering:
550 hours volunteering at an immigrant resource center giving conversational English classes and citizenship test training classes to immigrants.

Teaching experience:
260 hours as a learning assistant for different professors in my uni. (three semesters)
800 hours as a TA

I am planning to apply to all Florida MD programs, but I would like some help deciding which OOS schools would be the best to apply to given my profile. Thank you for your help.

 

[candbgirl]

What Hispanic group to you represent?

 

[Cubandood]

What Hispanic group to you represent?

I was born in Cuba.

 

[candbgirl]

I was born in Cuba.

I’m pretty sure Cuban is not considered URM. Mexican, Puerto Rican and Native American are the usually accepted URM groups. Some schools consider other groups based on the needs of the communities they serve.

 

[Cubandood]

I’m pretty sure Cuban is not considered URM. Mexican, Puerto Rican and Native American are the usually accepted URM groups. Some schools consider other groups based on the needs of the communities they serve.

I see. Well I wasn't relying on my URM status to get me into med school alone since I feel my stats and experiences are good enough to get in to some mid-tier schools, but I do hope schools see the cultural diversity I would add.

 

[candbgirl]

And they might. Do you speak fluent Spanish? That’s always a welcome skill. You might want to get some primary care shadowing done. Many ADCOMS look for that. Good luck.

 

[Cubandood]

And they might. Do you speak fluent Spanish? That’s always a welcome skill. You might want to get some primary care shadowing done. Many ADCOMS look for that. Good luck.

Yes, very fluent in Spanish. Thanks for the shadowing advice, that’s a good point.

As for the schools, I’m hoping to get a list of some schools I should be looking at given my profile. A sort of starting point to help make my list.

 

[Faha]

You could receive interviews at these OOS schools with your stats:
Boston University
Tufts
Brown
Quinnipiac
New York Medical College
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
Georgetown
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Oakland Beaumont
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
St. Louis
Creighton
Tulane

 

[Cubandood]

You could receive interviews at these OOS schools with your stats:
Boston University
Tufts
Brown
Quinnipiac
New York Medical College
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
Georgetown
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Oakland Beaumont
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
St. Louis
Creighton
Tulane

Thank you so much.

 

[Cubandood]

I scored a WARS score of 79 which suggests I don't apply to any low yield schools such as:
Jefferson, Tulane, Tufts, Georgetown, Brown, BU, Loyola, Rosalind Franklin, Drexel, Commonwealth, Temple, GWU, NYMC, Penn State, Albany, Rush.

Instead it suggests that 70% of my schools should be from category 3 and 4 such as:
UTSW*, UVA, Ohio State, USC-Keck, Rochester, Dartmouth, Einstein, Hofstra, UNC*, USF-Morsani, Wayne State, Creighton, Oakland, SLU, Cincinnati, Indiana, Miami, Iowa, MC Wisconsin, Toledo, SUNY Downstate, Stony Brook, VCU, Western MI, EVMS, Vermont, WVU, Wisconsin, Quinnipiac, Wake Forest, Maryland

@Faha, I see on the list you provided that many of these schools fall under low yield catergory. Would you suggest I still include some of these just to be safer? There's always the possibility that I was too generous when calculating this score of course, so I'd rather see what you have to say. Am I interpreting the suggestions wrong or should my WARS score be lower?

Hey @Goro, would like to hear your thoughts on this as well please.

 

[Goro]

I scored a WARS score of 79 which suggests I don't apply to any low yield schools such as:
Jefferson, Tulane, Tufts, Georgetown, Brown, BU, Loyola, Rosalind Franklin, Drexel, Commonwealth, Temple, GWU, NYMC, Penn State, Albany, Rush.

Instead it suggests that 70% of my schools should be from category 3 and 4 such as:
UTSW*, UVA, Ohio State, USC-Keck, Rochester, Dartmouth, Einstein, Hofstra, UNC*, USF-Morsani, Wayne State, Creighton, Oakland, SLU, Cincinnati, Indiana, Miami, Iowa, MC Wisconsin, Toledo, SUNY Downstate, Stony Brook, VCU, Western MI, EVMS, Vermont, WVU, Wisconsin, Quinnipiac, Wake Forest, Maryland

@Faha, I see on the list you provided that many of these schools fall under low yield catergory. Would you suggest I still include some of these just to be safer? There's always the possibility that I was too generous when calculating this score of course, so I'd rather see what you have to say. Am I interpreting the suggestions wrong or should my WARS score be lower?

Hey @Goro, would like to hear your thoughts on this as well please.

Asked and answered in the other thread