School list feedback (514/4.0/URM)

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twodozendonuts

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Hii! Here's what my app looks like. I plan to apply to 25-30 schools.

State: TN

School: low tier public

URM Status: Yes, African American Female

Major: Biochemistry

GPA/sGPA: both 4.0

MCAT: 514

ECs:

1. Paid Clinical


500 hours as a CNA in a nursing home

2. Clinical Volunteering

50 hrs Hospice volunteering at the same nursing home

3 &4. Research

200 hours in an organic chemistry lab- 1 poster and presentation

Anticipated 120 hours this summer in a bio-physics lab

Non-clinical Volunteering

5.
200 hours at at Red Cross as a blood donor ambassador

6. 100 hours at a food bank

7. 150 hours crocheting baby beanies for a hospital

8. Teaching/Tutoring (70 hrs Physics tutor, 70 hrs chemistry tutor, 50 hrs Lab instruction intern)

General leadership

9.
Volunteer coordinator for a minority-focused pre-med student org

10. President/vice president of an Ethnic student organization

11. 1600 hrs as a Resident Assistant in a dorm

12. vice president of a student org that does creative projects for people with disabilities

13. Shadowing

50 hrs with a gastroenterologist, 16 hours with an emergency physician

Other Employment

14. 350 hrs Warehouse equipment quality control

15. Awards

Gilman scholar, departmental merit scholarships

Personal statement

background of growing up in a third-world country, focus on service to underserved communities

Random things that could be a factor

First generation, disadvantaged status and immigrated to the U.S as a pre-teen (now a citizen)

School list

  • Target
  • Drexel,
  • ETSU
  • george town
  • UCSD
  • UCLA
  • UChicago
  • Emory
  • George washington
  • Georgetown
  • Temple
  • pennstate
  • Tufts
  • wake forest
  • virginia commonwealth vcu
  • penn state|
  • Albert Einstein|
  • rush|
  • NYMC
  • UT memphis
  • Tufts
  • Safety
  • Meharry
  • Morehouse
  • howard
  • Reach (please tell me if I'm being delusional)
  • Boston
  • NYU grossman
  • Vandy
  • case western
  • Yale
  • Harvard
  • Stanford
  • Duke
  • johnhopkins
  • Brown|
  • Columbia
 
I suggest these schools with your stats:
ETSU
U Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Howard
Meharry
Morehouse
Emory
Miami
Duke
U Virginia
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
Pittsburgh
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
NYU (free tuition)
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Brown
Harvard
Boston University
Tufts
Case Western
Cincinnati
U Michigan
Northwestern
U Chicago
Washington University (in St. Louis)
Stanford
Mayo
 
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