Need some help narrowing down my school list

[Jsmith34]

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Hey everyone, I have posted one of these What are my chances threads? before but now that I have my MCAT score I would appreciate help narrowing down my school list. Any help would be tremendously appreciated!

Psychology (BA)/Biochemistry (BA) Double Major
The University of Toledo

3.99 cGPA, 3.98 sGPA
37S MCAT- 12 PS, 11 VR, 14 BS

Research Experience

Biochemistry/Enzymology Lab
- One 4th Author Publication (Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disorders)
- One 3rd Author Publication ( in press)
- 1 3rd author poster presentation, 1 2nd author poster presentation, and 1 1st author poster presentation at the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference
- Recipient of $2700 URSCAP grant from university
- Starting my own project now and PI is motivated to publish results (with me as 1st author) by next summer
- Letter of Rec from PI

Personality Assessment Lab
- Worked with Psych. graduate students and prof. to develop a survey assessing clinical training in graduate programs
- Doubtful that any publication or presentation will come of it by next year however but it is possible
- Letter of Rec from prof.

Volunteer/Shadowing Experience

- 250 Hours Clinical Volunteering
- 150 Hours Volunteering at Hannah's Socks, an organization that collects socks and undergarments to distribute to the unhoused in the area
- 150 Hours Volunteering at Food for Thought, an organization that helps feed the unhoused

Extracurricular Involvement

- Student Government Senator (College of Arts & Sciences) 2 years
- Served as Recording Secretary- 1 year
- Delegate to Arts & Sciences Faculty Council- 1 year

- Big Event Director of Residence Life Recruitment- 1 year
- Big Event was a university-wide movement (800 students involved) that performed odd jobs for the neighboring community on a Saturday in March

- Colleges Against Cancer- 3 years
- Organization was responsible for promoting cancer awareness and prevention on campus as well as organizing Campus Relay for Life
- Am currently serving as President/Chair of the organization for the 2012-13 school year

- Relay for Life
- Served as team captain for the 2011 RFL- raised $600 for cancer research

- Volunteer note taker for the Office of Accessibility- 2 years

Tutoring Experience

- Supplemental Instruction Leader (Gen. Bio 2)- 2 years (four semesters)
- Probable letter of Rec. from supervisor

- Residence Hall Peer Mentor
- Served as an in-hall Bio, Chem., Calc., and Anatomy tutor during the 2011-2012 school year

Future Goals

- Currently only have 20 hours shadowing a cardiothoracic and neurosurgeon but goal is to get 100 by next June, which shouldn't be a problem
- Currently applying to teach for Kaplan or Princeton Review MCAT in the spring

School List

Yale
Georgetown
Emory
Northwestern
University of Chicago
Johns Hopkins
Harvard
University of Michigan
Columbia
Cornell
Case Western
OSU
Vanderbilt
University of Connecticut
Loyola
Boston University
St. Louis University
Dartmouth
Mt. Sinai
University of Pittsburgh

Questions
- Specifically I need help narrowing down my school list to 15 schools
- I definitely feel like my list is top-heavy so I could use help narrowing down specifcially the top tiers

Thanks so much for any advice!!!!

 

[Moosepig]

My goodness! Do you sleep? Those are insane stats and ECs. I agree the list is a bit top heavy. You need to drop 5 to get to 15, if I were you I'd put the top tiers in a bag and pull out five.

I think you'll have a good cycle though.

 

[darkjedi]

When you're talking about top-tiers, its such a crap shoot that you should just apply to as many as you have the time/energy/money for. Your stats are clearly in-line for top-tier, but because of how random the process is, you need to give yourself as a shot as possible at getting into at least one school.