MD Overview of App and School List

[5yewy5r]

Hi all, wanted feedback on my app overall to calm/worsen my nerves as well as help on a school list. I have 31 total right now but I suspect it is too top heavy, I want to cut down to 20-25.

Background: MA resident, graduated from top 20 undergrad a year ago as science major, been doing bench research while volunteering/other ECs since. Non-clinical is still pretty weak tho imo. Obviously I am trying but I expect my essays to be run of the mill at best, I think I have fairly strong LoRs.

WARS score ~80
LizzyM ~80

Cumulative/science GPA - 3.78 / 3.70
MCAT – 100th percentile

Research
>2,000 hours total from a few different labs with 1 co-author pub, 1 poster

Clinical
~500 hours scribing for outpatient

Non-clinical
~50 hrs paid tutor (individual)
~100 hrs soup kitchen
~15 hrs with local program helping 1st gen high school student with college application

School list (31 total):
Roughly ordered by competitiveness of school

Harvard (lol)
UCSF
WashU
Columbia
UChicago
Duke
Yale
Michigan
UCLA
NYU
Emory
Vanderbilt
Pitt
Cornell
Northwestern
Mt. Sinai
Case Western
Baylor
UVA
Tufts
Temple
UMass
Ohio State
Rochester
Dartmouth
Einstein
Hofstra
OHSU
UConn
U of Maryland
Indiana

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Where is your state of residence?

 

[5yewy5r]

Where is your state of residence?

Sorry I did not include, I am a MA resident. I think the UCs I plan to apply to are not too unfavorable for OOS?

 

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You should receive several interviews from your list. You could add Boston University. You could remove some of the state public schools where you are not a resident such as Maryland, Indiana, UConn, OHSU