Please Help Me

[crazygal]

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Hey all,

I am in need of some help....

The rundown on me....
3.9 GPA overall and science from well-respected mid western university
August MCAT....expecting 9's,10's
some research
4 year division one athlete
typical clinical, volunteer, etc.
Nebraska resident

Here is my list so far....I need to send it in as soon as possible, but it is still too large....any advice would be greatly appreciated 🙂

Thanks so much!!
102 Albany Medical College (Regular M.D.)
120 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
105 Boston University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
186 Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
116 Creighton University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
118 Dartmouth Medical School (Regular M.D.)
833 Drexel University College of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
121 Emory University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
123 George Washington University Sch of Med & Hlth Sci (Regular M.D.)
122 Georgetown University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
132 Jefferson Medical Coll. of Thomas Jefferson Univ. (Regular M.D.)
139 Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medici (Regular M.D.)
817 Mayo Medical School (Regular M.D.)
141 Medical College of Wisconsin (Regular M.D.)
151 New York Medical College (Regular M.D.)
152 New York University (Regular M.D.)
198 Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
110 Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Scien (Regular M.D.)
164 Saint Louis University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
172 Temple University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
156 The Ohio State Univ. Coll. Of Med. & Pub. Hlth. (Regular M.D.)
140 The University of Miami School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
179 The University of Vermont College of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
175 Tufts University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
176 Tulane University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
111 University of Chicago - Pritzker (Regular M.D.)
131 University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
146 University of Minnesota Medical School-Minneapolis (Regular M.D.)
149 University of Nebraska College of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
162 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
182 Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)
106 Wake Forest University School of Medicine

 

[ColoMD]

Your stats seem to make you competitive at most these school. I'd narrow by where you'd like to live for the next 4 years or more. When you look into it, you may decided that you would hate living in Minneapolis all winter long, or that Atlanta isn't quite your style.

 

[crazygal]

Your stats seem to make you competitive at most these school. I'd narrow by where you'd like to live for the next 4 years or more. When you look into it, you may decided that you would hate living in Minneapolis all winter long, or that Atlanta isn't quite your style.

I got rid of Albert Einstein...not sure of the Bronx, and Pritzker......average MCATs are 11's


I still have 30 schools....what would you guys recommend for me numbers wise?? I was thinking 20-25

 

[chitown82]

maybe take out mayo, dartmouth, nyu, and emory?

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Why? She has a 3.9.

 

[crazygal]

Mayo is definitely my reach school.......my sister had retinoblastoma treatment there a few years ago, and I fell in love with the institution.

I also love Atlanta (Emory), and I have two friends at Dartmouth right now who are from Nebraska.

Does anyone know the MCAT averages of NYU??

Also, what would you guys consider a good number of schools for me to apply to?

Thanks again!!

 

[Davina3000]

Don't sell yourself short...keep a fair number of stretch schools. A 3.9 is great and you could suprise yourself and get above 11s on the MCAT...it will be too late to add schools at that point, so if spending a little extra cash doesn't sound terrible, I would keep your stretches.

Miami is the school on your list that is jumping out at me as not making any sense...maybe you have something that is drawing you to that school that isn't obvious from what you told us, I dunno.

You will get secondaries from most, if not all of these schools, so if you don't feel like sending back 30, try to trim it down. The way I did it was compare schools to my state schools. If I didn't think I would choose the school in question over my state school, I crossed it off the list. I was able to do this b/c my state school has a very high acceptance rate (comparatively!!!). I *think* Nebraska would be the same way, but I could be wrong.

 

[crazygal]

Thanks to everyone!

Miami just sounds like a great place to live, and they do accept some out of state...although they prescreen with a 3.6 GPA for out of staters.

 

[Senor.Frog]

Finch and BU and Jefferson.

Finch = they're on probation and with your #'s you should apply for a reach, like Harvard, hey, who knows

BU & Jeff = too many linkage programs and stuff

 

[Senor.Frog]

Doesn't Iowa accept mostly in-staters?