Need help shortening my list -- 34/3.80

[OMGMike]

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I am an NJ resident. I am a non-traditional; I was working as a medical records assistant for one year and started a business. Decent amount of clinical work (1000+ hours of clinical volunteering), some shadowing. I have no research experience.

I will be submitting this week. I am hoping to have my secondaries out my the end of August.

I'd like to add a school or two in the west if there are any that actually accept OOSers.


My school list so far:
Dartmouth (reach)
NYU (reach)
Duke (reach)
Quinnipiac-Frank Netter SOM
Georgetown
George Washington
Miami-Miller
Tulane
Boston
Tufts
Rochester
Einstein
Stony Brook
SUNY Downstate
Albany
New York Medical
Hofstra University*North Shore–LIJ SOM
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Toledo
Virginia Tech Carilion
Virginia Commonwealth
Vermont
Marshall-Edwards
West Virginia
Jefferson
Drexel
Wake Forest
UMDNJ New Jersey
UMDNJ-RW Johnson
Rowan University - Cooper Medical
Maryland

Removed:
UC San Francisco (IS preference)
UC Riverside (IS preference)
UC San Diego (IS preference)
North Carolina (IS preference)
Mount Sinai (Low stats)
Buffalo (IS preference)
Oregon (IS preference)
Yale (Low stats)

I picked a lot of Ohio and NY schools because of the whole in-state tuition after a year thing and because they are both close to NJ. The rest I picked based on chances of getting in, tuition, and location.

Any additions or removals you can suggest? I'm just hoping to get into one of my state schools!

 

[NavyDoc23]

Do you have any research experience? How many schools do you want to apply to - do you have a limit? I would take off UNC because of state-biases. I would take off the CA schools too - sorry, but they are very biased towards their state and the few OOS applicants they do accept have very good stats and research experience. Duke might be a stretch, too. I think you have a good shot at the others. Your goal, or "high tier" schools would then be: Yale, Dartmouth, Boston, NYU, and VT.

 

[OMGMike]

Do you have any research experience? How many schools do you want to apply to - do you have a limit? I would take off UNC because of state-biases. I would take off the CA schools too - sorry, but they are very biased towards their state and the few OOS applicants they do accept have very good stats and research experience. Duke might be a stretch, too. I think you have a good shot at the others. Your goal, or "high tier" schools would then be: Yale, Dartmouth, Boston, NYU, and VT.

No research to speak of, unfortunately. I think you are right about UNC. I am shooting for about 20 schools, that's average isn't it? I will probably remove the CA schools as much as I would like to go.

Thanks for the great advice!

 

[OMGMike]

Do you have any research experience? How many schools do you want to apply to - do you have a limit? I would take off UNC because of state-biases. I would take off the CA schools too - sorry, but they are very biased towards their state and the few OOS applicants they do accept have very good stats and research experience. Duke might be a stretch, too. I think you have a good shot at the others. Your goal, or "high tier" schools would then be: Yale, Dartmouth, Boston, NYU, and VT.

Which VT do you mean - Vermont or Virginia Tech? I'm not too keen on Virginia Tech os if it is a reach I will not apply.

 

[Lambda Phage]

Dartmouth is not "high tier" by most metrics.

 

[alpinism]

Neither is VT or BU. NYU is borderline high-tier.

Take off Marshall and WV. They both have a huge preference for IS applicants.

 

[OMGMike]

Neither is VT or BU. NYU is borderline high-tier.

Take off Marshall and WV. They both have a huge preference for IS applicants.

My data says 57.70% IS and 58.70% IS respectively. That doesn't seem huge to me. But my data could very well be wrong.