Need help with school list (3.8/517)

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Hello everyone, I was just wondering if I could get some feedback on my school list. Mainly I’m trying to figure out how good my MCAT is in reference to top 20s

• Biomedical engineering major at large state school
• cGPA: 3.84 w/upward trend (3.99 over last two semesters)
• sGPA: 3.78
• MCAT: 517 (128/129/130/130)

ECs:

• Clinical volunteering: 120 hours, expecting ~70 more this summer
• Shadowing: 20 hours, general internal medicine
• Non-clinical volunteering: volunteer org co-founder (>50 members), executive committee VP and president past two years, 800 hours over past 6 years
• Research: 600 hours, one middle author publication in top-quartile cell bio journal
• Teaching/tutoring: 360 hours tutoring high school students in religious studies as well as AP math and science classes
• Other: freelance photography/graphic design, roughly 20 hours/month for 2 years

Note: am a PA resident and I’d like to stay in the general northeast region

Super-reach:
Penn
Yale
Cornell
Columbia

Reach:
Feinberg
Sinai
Pitt
Boston
UVA
UMich

Target/Safety:
Temple
Jefferson
Drexel
Penn State
Geisinger
Tufts
Maryland
Einstein
SUNY Downstate
Hofstra
Albany
VCU
Cooper
Rutgers NJMS
Rutgers RWJ
Netter
Georgetown

Does this seem reasonable? Too many top tier? Too many low-yield? I’m open to any feedback, so thanks in advance!

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[Faha]

You can remove the NJ schools since they strongly prefer NJ residents. You could add Rochester and Case Western.

 

[YouGetOnlySoftClap]

You can remove the NJ schools since they strongly prefer NJ residents. You could add Rochester and Case Western.

I have strong ties to NJ (800 non clinical hours all in NJ), which I know doesn’t completely make up for OOS, but I’ll take my chances.

 

[Goro]

Hello everyone, I was just wondering if I could get some feedback on my school list. Mainly I’m trying to figure out how good my MCAT is in reference to top 20s

• Biomedical engineering major at large state school
• cGPA: 3.84 w/upward trend (3.99 over last two semesters)
• sGPA: 3.78
• MCAT: 517 (128/129/130/130)

ECs:

• Clinical volunteering: 120 hours, expecting ~70 more this summer
• Shadowing: 20 hours, general internal medicine
• Non-clinical volunteering: volunteer org co-founder (>50 members), executive committee VP and president past two years, 800 hours over past 6 years
• Research: 600 hours, one middle author publication in top-quartile cell bio journal
• Teaching/tutoring: 360 hours tutoring high school students in religious studies as well as AP math and science classes
• Other: freelance photography/graphic design, roughly 20 hours/month for 2 years

Note: am a PA resident and I’d like to stay in the general northeast region

Super-reach:
Penn
Yale
Cornell
Columbia

Reach:
Feinberg
Sinai
Pitt
Boston
UVA
UMich

Target/Safety:
Temple
Jefferson
Drexel
Penn State
Geisinger
Tufts
Maryland
Einstein
SUNY Downstate
Hofstra
Albany
VCU
Cooper
Rutgers NJMS
Rutgers RWJ
Netter
Georgetown

Does this seem reasonable? Too many top tier? Too many low-yield? I’m open to any feedback, so thanks in advance!

I suggest:
NYU
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
Northwestern
U Chicago
U Penn
Columbia
Duke
Harvard
Sinai
Cornell
Stanford
U MI
U VA
BU
Case
Mayo
Pitt
UCSF
Hofstra
Ohio State
U Cincy
USC/Keck
USF Morsani
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
Emory
Rochester
Jefferson
Miami
U IA
U VM
Western MI
Your state school