School List Help (3.82/518)

[Martin van Nostrand]

My PreMed advisor has advised me to cut down my current school list to ~35 schools. Below I have a short summary of my application and my current school list. Any advice on what school to cut/add, or if I even need to cut any school at all would be greatly appreciated.

Demographics:

• White Male
• CA Resident
• Graduating from Top 25 Undergrad in May
• Psych major

Stats:

• cGPA: 3.82 (4.0 last two semesters)
• sGPA: 3.59 - 3.65, depending on what PSYC courses are counted (my sGPA is by far my biggest concern)
• MCAT: balanced 518 (96th percentile)

ECs (clinical):

• ~150 hours volunteering at city hospital
• ~120 hours volunteering at community medical clinic
• ~80 hours volunteering with school EMT org. Registered EMT-B (great patient contact, over 200 hours nonclinical, also hold an Exec position)
• ~60 hours split shadowing 4 different physicians, various specialities. No primary care yet.

ECs (nonclinical):

• Played a D1 sport freshman year
• ~550 hours split between 4 different psych based labs, 2 poster presentations (1 primary author, 1 secondary), one lab was a paid position at a T10 research school
• ~150 hours volunteering at a local homeless shelter (underserved community)
• ~75 hours at school's Red Cross Club
• ~25 hours as a PreMed "mentor" for underclassmen

Current School List:

Duke

UCSF

Mt.Sinai

UCLA

U Pitt

USC

UC San Diego

Boston U

U Michigan

Case Western

Albert Einstein

U Miami

Emory

Hofstra

Tufts

Georgetown

Thomas Jefferson

Western Michigan U

Rochester

Drexel

Dartmouth

Wake Forest

Tulane

George Washington

Kaiser Permanente

Rush

Rosalind Franklin

Loyola Chicago

MC Wisconsin

U Vermont

Temple

Quinnipiac

Oakland U

New York MC

UC Davis

UC Irvine

Nova

California U of Science & Medicine

Eastern Virginia

Toledo

SUNY Downstate

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