ok, so for the regular SDNers, you all know my sotry, and my stats. After all this time, I have to realize that I was a "weak" applicant and although I have great EC, clinical, letters of rec, life stories, but not so great GPA/MCAT (science 3.1, overall 3.4/26P) alot of schools gave me the boot. I don't blame them..they don't know that their missing :wink: . So unless a miracle happens and UCLA/DREW hooks it up with an acceptance, I will have to reapply next year. So here is a hypothical situation that I need your help on. So, I'll retake the MCAT this august and most likely score around the 28-32 range (with a high verbal!). I'll be doing a post bac, so most likely my science gpa for the post bac classes will be around 3.5+. I have excellent letters of rec and will get another one from my PI in human genetics. EC...forget about it, they're cool. So I was thinking of applying to these schools next year:
California: all the UCs, USC, Stanford
D.C: George Washington, Howard
Georgia: Emory, Moorehouse
Illinois: University of Illinois, Pritzker, Norhtwestern, Finch, Rush, Loyola stritch
Massachusets: Boston U
Michigan: U. Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State
Missouri: St. Louis, Wright U
NY: Columbia, Cornell, NYMC, NYU
North Carolina: Wake Forest
Puerto Rico: Ponce School of Medicine, U. Puerto Rico
Vermont: U. Vermont
Virginia: VCU
this year I applied to 20 schools, and I only received 1 interview. So what do you think, is this a good range? I know it's a lot of schools, so this is where you guys come in with your advice. I will like to narrow it down to 20-25 schools, but I also want to keep a good range of reach schools to "guaranteed" (if there is such a thing schools). I am a california resident, non-URM according to AMCAs, but I am latino and will apply disadvantaged. anyways, your advice will be greatly appreciate it, thank you,
California: all the UCs, USC, Stanford
D.C: George Washington, Howard
Georgia: Emory, Moorehouse
Illinois: University of Illinois, Pritzker, Norhtwestern, Finch, Rush, Loyola stritch
Massachusets: Boston U
Michigan: U. Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State
Missouri: St. Louis, Wright U
NY: Columbia, Cornell, NYMC, NYU
North Carolina: Wake Forest
Puerto Rico: Ponce School of Medicine, U. Puerto Rico
Vermont: U. Vermont
Virginia: VCU
this year I applied to 20 schools, and I only received 1 interview. So what do you think, is this a good range? I know it's a lot of schools, so this is where you guys come in with your advice. I will like to narrow it down to 20-25 schools, but I also want to keep a good range of reach schools to "guaranteed" (if there is such a thing schools). I am a california resident, non-URM according to AMCAs, but I am latino and will apply disadvantaged. anyways, your advice will be greatly appreciate it, thank you,