please help with my list of schools

[Idioteque]

3.8 GPA, 3.72 BCPM; mcat - 35S (12P, 12V, 11B)

research here and there, other bs activities: service, writing, playing go

i go to penn state which might hurt me at the top schools even though the honors college here plays up their rep (most likely bs)

ok, my list so far:

Penn St.
Jefferson
Mt Sinai
NYU
Temple
Pritzker
UPenn
Pitt
Cornell

I'd like to add maybe 3-4 schools and i'm not into drexel or the jersey schools. any suggestions? Thanks in advance

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[kevster2001]

How about Columbia and Northwestern, in the same cities you're applying to.

 

[MT2117]

Are you restricted to certain regions?? What about GW, Georgetown, Albert Einstein, BU, Tufts, etc.

 

[diosa428]

I think you should add more mid-tier schools. You only have NYU (which is quite hard to get into), Mt. Sinai, and Pitt, but I think you have a great shot at some mid-tiers and some reaches. I'm going to say your reaches are Pritzker (b/c they are really hard to get into, despite the fact that they are not "top tier", whatever that means), UPenn and Cornell. I don't really know about Penn St., but Jefferson and Temple are probably good safeties, and, to be honest, with your numbers, you probably won't get very far going w/schools that have numbers significantly below your averages b/c they'll just reject you, assuming you'll get accepted somewhere else.

I don't really know which schools you should add, it seems that you're focusing on northeast and chicago - is there a reason for that? Or are you willing to go elsewhere? I agree w/the suggestions above - Northwestern, BU, Tufts, etc. You could also consider adding Case Western, Emory, Tulane, URochester... just depends upon where you're interested in going.