SCHOOL LIST HELP 3.60 cGPA and sGPA, 520 MCAT

[Walter Raleigh]

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I am a White male from New York; I want to stay in the Northeast for medical school.
ECs:
820 hours research with 3 poster presentations
400 hours on ambulance corps as attendant
100 hours volunteering in local emergency room
130 hours nonclinical volunteering - mentoring students, soup kitchens, miscellaneous stuff.
300 hours as private MCAT tutor.
50 hours shadowing local doctors - radiology, emergency medicine, physiatry.
1400 hours as triathlete
MCAT: 130/130/130/130

School List:
Albert Einstein
Boston University
Columbia
Dartmouth
Harvard
Icahn
New York Medical College
Penn State
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Stony Brook
SUNY Upstate
Tufts
Yale

 

[Faha]

You could add Hofstra, Jefferson, Rochester.

 

[vrazzles]

You should consider shadowing some primary care.

Your non-clinical volunteering is a bit weak. I think you'll be just fine though.

 

[premedalt]

Did you retake your 518/519 MCAT score?

WAMC top 20s 3.6/519

 

[Walter Raleigh]

Did you retake your 518/519 MCAT score?

WAMC top 20s 3.6/519

No, I didn't - just keeping stats a little vague for anonymity; does it really matter if I have a 519 or a 520? Retaking a 97th percentile MCAT score is a stupid move 99 times out of 100 - even if you get a perfect 528, you look like someone that's got an unhealthy amount of perfectionism.

As for the nonclinical volunteering: I'll have another hundred hours of that by matriculation time.

 

[Walter Raleigh]

No, I didn't - just keeping stats a little vague for anonymity; does it really matter if I have a 519 or a 520? Retaking a 97th percentile MCAT score is a stupid move 99 times out of 100 - even if you get a perfect 528, you look like someone that's got an unhealthy amount of perfectionism.

As for the nonclinical volunteering: I'll have another hundred hours of that by matriculation time.

@Goro: any opinion on this school list?

 

[premedalt]

No, I didn't - just keeping stats a little vague for anonymity; does it really matter if I have a 519 or a 520? Retaking a 97th percentile MCAT score is a stupid move 99 times out of 100 - even if you get a perfect 528, you look like someone that's got an unhealthy amount of perfectionism.

As for the nonclinical volunteering: I'll have another hundred hours of that by matriculation time.

You also changed your state of residence from Oregon to New York. If you're looking for help with your school list, realize that the state you live in makes a big difference.

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[Walter Raleigh]

Agreed on state of residence. Let's say I'm in NY, have lived there my entire life. What does my school list then look like?

 

[Goro]

I am a White male from New York; I want to stay in the Northeast for medical school.
ECs:
820 hours research with 3 poster presentations
400 hours on ambulance corps as attendant
100 hours volunteering in local emergency room
130 hours nonclinical volunteering - mentoring students, soup kitchens, miscellaneous stuff.
300 hours as private MCAT tutor.
50 hours shadowing local doctors - radiology, emergency medicine, physiatry.
1400 hours as triathlete
MCAT: 130/130/130/130

School List:
Albert Einstein
Boston University
Columbia
Dartmouth
Harvard
Icahn
New York Medical College
Penn State
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Stony Brook
SUNY Upstate
Tufts
Yale

Walt, work on the self esteem and aim a bit higher. Rock star and all that. List assumes you scored 517 or higher.

NYU
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
Northwestern
U Chicago
U Penn
Columbia
Duke
Harvard
Sinai
Cornell
Stanford
U MI
U VA
BU
Case
Mayo
Pitt
UCSF
Hofstra
Ohio State
U Cincy
USC/Keck
USF Morsani
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
Emory
Rochester
Jefferson
Miami
U IA
U VM
Western MI
All SUNYs

 

[Walter Raleigh]

@Goro: thank you very much for the school list. Does your advice and school list change any with the addition of two pieces of information:

1) I graduated from college in May 2017; this is my first of two gap years.
2) I did not compete in triathlon as part of a college team or as part of any other team; I trained and competed as an individual.

Also: for those top 20s, my GPA is at or below the 10th percentile. Are my ECs really exceptional enough to justify the rockstar list you've suggested? If they are: thanks! I am quite flattered.

 

[vrazzles]

Goro: thank you very much for the school list. Does your advice and school list change any with the addition of two pieces of information:

1) I graduated from college in May 2017; this is my first of two gap years.
2) I did not compete in triathlon as part of a college team or as part of any other team; I trained and competed as an individual.

You're fine dude. Your neuroticism is showing.

I don't really think your ECs are amazing, but they check the boxes.