School List- 22F CA ORM, 515, 3.86

[mrorangeowl]

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Hello all! I am a recently graduated neuroscience major looking for help in building my school list. I am hoping to apply to 25-30 schools for financial reasons. Let me know what suggestions you may have for my school list please. Here are some relevant facts:

GPA: cGPA 3.86 sGPA 3.85

MCAT: 2nd attempt 515 (128/129/127/131), 1st attempt 508

Hours: 900 Clinical Hours (paid and not paid), ~1000 Research, 222 hours of non-clinical volunteering, 85 shadowing hours

Research-related things: 3 publications (1 in Nature, 1 is a micropublication), 4 posters presentations, 2 awards (one prestigious award for my undergrad for humanitarianism, senior thesis award), 2 research grant awards

Misc things: Dean's list a few semesters (4 semesters), recipient of important scholarship in SoCal, history of homelessness/housing insecurity mentioned in my app

LOR: Committee letter 4 other LORs, including 1 from PI. Should be pretty strong.

School List: I know that there are some big reaches, hoping to add some more suited schools so looking for any advice

albert einstein
ucsf
tufts
new york medical college
univ of colorado
dartmouth (geisel)
ucsd
ucla
emory
quinnipac
hofstra
yale
stanford
harvard
duke
brown
uc irvine
weill cornell
icahn mount sinai
usc
uchicago pritzker
loma linda
boston univ
case western reserve
university of pittsburgh
university of virginia
university of wisconsin - Madison (OOS unfriendly?)
UMiami Miller
East Virginia
Albany ?
Jefferson ?

 

[Goro]

ucsf
tufts
new york medical college
univ of colorado
dartmouth (geisel)
ucsd
ucla
emory
quinnipac
hofstra
duke
brown
uc irvine
icahn mount sinai
usc
loma linda (ONLY if you're SDA or a deeply Christian person.)
boston univ
case western reserve
university of pittsburgh
university of virginia
university of wisconsin - Madison
UMiami Miller
East Virginia
Albany
Jefferson

U Rochester
Western MI
U VM
U Cincy
UCD
SLU
CREIGHTON
WAKE
MAYO

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Above is a more reasonable list.

 

[pigsinacloth]

You might as well add some of the low yield schools as well just to give yourself a slightly better chance at the A as long as you don't think you will get burned out writing more secondary essays.

Loyola
RFU
Drexel
Thomas Jefferson

 

[chilly_md]

Thread moved to WAMC forums

 

[Mr.Smile12]

What did you do for 222 non-clinical hours?

Your original list has too many reaches. Goro gave you suggestions that are more reasonable targets.

 

[mrorangeowl]

What did you do for 222 non-clinical hours?

Your original list has too many reaches. Goro gave you suggestions that are more reasonable targets.

Hi, thank you for the response. I did some English-language teaching to non-English speakers and some care package and recruitment for said care package creation for a club.