Refining my School List

[Chinnyyip]

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I'm an Asian Canadian recently graduated from the University of Toronto. I'm applying for the second time and would like some advice on which schools I should apply to since I only heard from Nova last cycle 😕

Overall GPA: 3.47, Science (w/o BCP): 3.11, BCP: 3.46, Non-Science: 3.62, BCP+Science: 3.39
I'm taking a few summer courses (done by the end of July) and hopefully they'll bring my overall and BCP above 3.5

DAT: 21 TS, 20 AA, 20 PAT, 18 RC

I'm thinking of applying to these schools:

University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni
Southern California
Connecticut
Nova
Midwestern - Illinois
Indiana
Louisville
Maryland
Boston
Detroit Mercy
UMichigan
Minnesota
New Jersey
NYU
Buffalo
Case Western
UPenn

Any schools I should add/remove?

Any advice is greatly appreciated! 🙂

 

[Paperclipz]

did you apply late in the cycle? your scores and gpa look fine so I don't know why you wouldn't have heard of any others.

 

[Chinnyyip]

Thanks, my applications were mailed out to schools by June 22nd. Is that late?

 

[periopocket]

I think your list looks perfect! GL

 

[Paperclipz]

I think this time you will definitely have a shot. Send it out the first week and your list of schools looks great! Good luck

 

[Chinnyyip]

Thanks a lot for the feedback! 🙂

 

[Chinnyyip]

temple and pittsburgh were also listed as being canadian friendly in one of the stickies. would they be worth a try as well?

 

[KittySquared]

^Definitely.

 

[doc toothache]

Claiming June as late, is a bit a stretch.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=1005151
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=942453

 

[Chinnyyip]

Thanks for the helpful stats
Should I remove the schools with a GPA avg that is higher than mine and also give preference to within-state applicants? I know that GPA isn't the whole story, but my ECs are not so good that it would compensate for my lower GPA.

These schools from my list give preference to within state:
UCONN 3.54 ogpa, 3.5 sgpa
Louisville 3.56 ogpa, 3.44 sgpa
Maryland 3.6 ogpa, 3.5 sgpa
Michigan 3.57 ogpa, 3.49 sgpa
Minnesota 3.6 ogpa, 3.52 sgpa
Temple 3.51 ogpa, 3.41 sgpa

Basically my question is how close within their average should I be to justify applying?