Please HELP with potential list of schools

[jappeach]

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Hi All,

I am a CA-resident with a 3.53 BCPM and a 33 MCAT with pretty good EC this is the list of schools I was planning on applying-- can you please give me any suggestions? ones to remove or ones to add?

With such borderline numbers, I hope I can get into at least one school!

Greatly appreciated!

Albany
George Washington
Michigan State
NYMC
Tulane
VCU
Albert Einstein
Boston Univ..
Dartmouth
Drexel
Georgetown
Jefferson
USC
Loyola
Penn State
Rosalind Franklin
St. Louis Univ
SUNY- Downstate
SUNY- Upstate
Temple
Tufts
UMDNJ (both of them)
UC Davis
Univ of Colorado
Univ. of Illinois
Univ. of Maryland
Rochester
UVA
Wayne State

 

[postbacker]

Maryland is highly unlikely OOS; suspect the same about Illinois...and Colorado...otherwise, looks good to me...good luck!

 

[LifetimeDoc]

Good God Almighty! Don't apply to Colorado OOS, the tuition is like $70k a year!!! 😱

 

[jappeach]

I know that Maryland has low OOS numbers...but I grew up there, so I was hoping to insert that somewhere in the secondary. Do you think that matters or I should just save my $$?

Thanks for all your feedback

 

[SirTony76]

MCW perhaps?

 

[Vizsla]

I know that Maryland has low OOS numbers...but I grew up there, so I was hoping to insert that somewhere in the secondary. Do you think that matters or I should just save my $$?

Thanks for all your feedback

w/ 3.5, 33 and ties to the state i think you can stand a good enough chance for an interview (make sure to mention that you lived there). I think the others are good choices... y not more cali schools? at least youve got the 3 OOS cali schools on there (nymc, ros franklin, st louis)

 

[prettymonkey]

since when is a 33 a borderline mcat score? 😱

 

[LifetimeDoc]

since when is a 33 a borderline mcat score? 😱

It's borderline for the hyper-competitive "top-tier" (whatever that means) schools that are into the numbers game. The average matriculant MCAT is a 31, and the average for the top schools is like a 34. For applying OOS to state schools, you really need a high MCAT and GPA to get into those types of schools in many cases as they tend to favor in-state residents so the OOS folks need to compete more.

 

[TheRealMD]

since when is a 33 a borderline mcat score? 😱

I think he was talking about his BCPM GPA.

 

[jappeach]

Yeah, my gpa is what i'm worried about, but I was a biomedical engineering major, but I've heard they don't care about that.

I will be applying to all the cali schools as reaches.