Nontrad School List Help - 2024

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CARTguru

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Hey guys, hoping to get some input on my tentative school list.

Stats:

GPA: science/overall ~3.6

MCAT: 511

6 gap years

7500 clinical hours as an EMT and medical scribe

800 volunteer hours

- 2 free clinics serving low income/ethnically diverse populations

- volunteer coordinator/grant writer for nonprofit organization addressing inequities in resources available to young adults with cancer

6000 research hours focusing on T cell engineering for cancer therapies: worked at two T20 institutions

- 7 posters

- 1 first author paper in Nature Communications

- 2 conference poster presentations: 1 regional and 1 international

- Coauthor on textbook chapter outlining CAR T cell toxicities

- various awards at internal competitions and at a state wide research conference

150 shadowing hours: spent time with 8 different specialties

Xfactor: CEO of small start up designing an app to bridge the gap between non-profit organizations and volunteers

Red Flags: 2 misdemeanors from 2015/2016 but have highlighted my growth since these occurrences

Pennsylvania resident with strong ties to Virginia

School list:

1) Temple

2) Baylor

3) Case Western

4) Drexel

5) Duke

6) Georgetown

7) Harvard

8) Hopkins

9) UT Houston - McGovern SOM

10) Penn State

11) Stanford

12) UCLA

13) U Chicago

14) U Michigan

15) UT Austin - Dell SOM

16) UTSW

17) University of Virginia

18) Vanderbilt

19) University of Houston

20) Cornell

21) Yale

22) Dartmouth

23) George Washington University

24) Mt Sinai - Icahn SOM

25) UTSA

26) University of Pittsburg

27) VCU

28) UT John Sealy SOM


Sorry for the extensive post, but wanted to give you all a great idea of my application and my strengths/weaknesses. Hoping to sculpt my narrative around my research experience and time spent helping traditionally marginalized communities. I know this is a bit top heavy but hoping to get some feedback as I finalize my school list.


Thank you for all your help and I will do my best to respond to any comments below!!
 
Have you started working on filling in your application portals already?
All the Texas schools use TMDSAS, a separate application system from AMCAS. It's a system that values early submission of the primary app, so try to be ready to roll before the end of July.
You'll need to take CASPer and Duet, and for TMDSAS you need the extra step of logging in to your MCAT portal and giving permission to release your MCAT scores to TMDSAS.
 
Have you started working on filling in your application portals already?
All the Texas schools use TMDSAS, a separate application system from AMCAS. It's a system that values early submission of the primary app, so try to be ready to roll before the end of July.
You'll need to take CASPer and Duet, and for TMDSAS you need the extra step of logging in to your MCAT portal and giving permission to release your MCAT scores to TMDSAS.
I am about 75% done with both my AMCAS and TMDSAS applications, with the plan of submitting both in the next week. I have sat for my CASPer exam, but I still need to transmit my MCAT to TMDSAS so thank you for the reminder!
 
Many of the schools on your list are unrealistic with a MCAT of 511 and a GPA of 3.6 . I suggest these schools with your stats:
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Commonwealth Geisinger
Pittsburgh
New York Medical College
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Dartmouth
Tufts
Brown
Hackensack
Georgetown
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Virginia Tech
Eastern Virginia
West Virginia
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
St. Louis
Creighton
TCU
Tulane
Belmont
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
 
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