School List help! (3.9gpa April MCAT)

[whenlifegivesyoulemons]

Looking for help on application list of schools:

3.89 cGPA
3.90 sGPA
MCAT 90-100th percentile (took in April, only have percentile data)
- extensive lab research (3 years)
- clinical summer research through harvard medical
- summer internship in London hospital
- volunteer at local womens shelter
- very strong recs
- leadership in extracurriculars

Harvard
BU
U Mass
Tufts
U Rochester
Johns Hopkins
UPenn
Brown
Yale
Georgetown
Dartmouth
Columbia
Cornell
NYU
George Washington
Temple
U Vermont
Drexel
Quinnipiac

looking to add more "safe" schools - suggestions?

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[itsthat1guy]

In what state are you a resident

 

[whenlifegivesyoulemons]

Mass - only 1 in-state (UMass)

 

[whenlifegivesyoulemons]

 

[CaliforniaDreamer]

Clinical Volunteering?

 

[Banco]

Replace Drexel with Jefferson (better school). Get rid of GTown and George Washington (too many apps, low yield). Also get rid of Brown because they prefer their own undergrads.

Look into: Case Western, Ohio State, Pitt, Einstein, Sinai, Emory, UVa, Miami.

 

[GrapesofRath]

Where'd you go for undergrad it definitely matters for admission at higher end schools

Your list is too attached to the Ivy name and is basically all either big name schools or the lower tier schools and nothing in between.


This list will vary significantly when your actual score is announced. If you come back and announce your score ends up being around the 90th percentile(33ish on the old MCAT equivalent) re-adjust the top heavyness of this list. I'm making it with the assumption you end up somewhere in the middle so 95th percentile and around 35 on the old MCAT.

Here is a version of the list I'd recommend

State School UMass

Pick 5
Tufts
Temple
Vermont
Drexel
Jefferson
Quinnipac
Western Michigan
Oakland
Medical College Wisconsin
VCU
Albany
New York Medical College
Loyola
Rush
Georgetown

Pick 8
Boston U
Rochester
Mayo
Einstein
Miami
Ohio State
Sinai
Emory
Case Western
UVA
USC
Colorado
Maryland
Cincinnati

Pick 3-4
Baylor
Pitt
Cornell
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
NYU
Michigan

Pick 4
Columbia
Duke
U Chicago
Yale
Penn
Stanford
Any other top school: Harvard, WashU UCSF and Johns Hopkins will be brutally competitive in particular(although any school in this range is we are splitting hairs here) and might not be worth pursuing without at least a 95+percentile MCAT.

 

[whenlifegivesyoulemons]

Thanks for all the input! Really looking to stay in New England so trying to narrow my choices there but will definitely look into those suggested!