Preparing School Application List

[tjquinn]

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Hello everyone,

I will just begin this thread with a list of my statistics (as I know this will be important):

sGPA: 3.92
cGPA: 3.95
MCAT: 11V, 12PS, 12BS, S (35 S)

Majors: Biochemistry (BS w/ Departmental Honors), Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology (BS)
Minors: Chemistry, Philosophy


Volunteer:

• Data Analyst (40hrs/week, 5 days a week for a summer)
• Trauma Surgery Department (8hrs/week, 2 days a week for 4 months
• Shadowing (16hrs/week, 2 days a week for 4 weeks)
• Tutoring (10hrs/week, 1 year)
• Africa Trip (This is upcoming from 08/24/09 - 09/19/09, 26 days volunteering in Dakar, Senegal)

Work Experience:

• Tutoring (1 year) ~ Same as above but with non-disabled/international students through the college
• Research Assistant (2 years)
  • Papers - I have 3 papers published where I either write the abstract/conclusions, or I do extensive editing/revisions throughout. I also do a lot of the data in the supplementary data section.
    • Journal of Neuroscience [2nd Author]
    • Proteomics Journal (highly specialized) [3rd Author]
    • Proteomics Book (highly specialized) [2nd Author]
    • Journal of Neuroscience (in press) [2nd Author]
  • Grants - I do a lot of grant editing/revising for my PI. Consequently, I get to learn a lot about cutting edge technology and all of the various projects he is invested in.
• T.A. (Up and coming)
  • Comparative Anatomy - Fall 2009 (Interviewd/Accepted for position)
  • Biochemistry II - Winter 2010 (Interviewd ~ awaiting response)
  • Comparative Anatomy - Winter 2010 (Interviewed/Accepted for position)
  • Biochemistry III - Spring 2010 (Interviewd/Accepted for position)

Letters of Reccomendation:

• My PI (renown in the field)
• Attending Physician whom I shadowed (renown in the field)
• Biochemistry I Professor
• Physics Professor
• English Professor

With that out of the way, I am curious as to what schools I should apply to. I will of course apply to my instate school, University of Washington; however, this also happens to be a difficult school to get into. I have used various school generators to try and help narrow down my selection but I know that my grades/MCAT are above average and, consequently, the generators reccomend applying to all schools (I don't mean to be arrogant, I just am truly struggling to cut back on the school list).

With that said, I do have several schools in mind, but I would love input on other choices so that I can research them and see if they would be a place I would want to go.

University of Washington
University of PA
Harvard
OHSU

... as you can see my list is incredibly small and not entirely reasonable. I would like to bulk this up with rather decent schools (mid-upper tier) as well as with associated safety schools.

I appreciate all of your input, and look foward to working with you all in the future.

 

[tjquinn]

Guju,

Thank you for the heads up, I have deleted the detailed info! I definately do not want anything like that to happen. I am not too concerned with my name (should I be?)

I appreciate your input, I will be researching those schools to see how they look!

Thanks again