School List Help, 514 4.0

[premedapplicant7777]

Any help with my list would be appreciated!

Year in school: Finishing junior year
cGPA: 4.00
sGPA: 4.00
MCAT: 514 (127/128/129/130)
Race: White
Undergrad: Not a top undergrad

Clinical Experience Volunteering/Non-Volunteering (~150 hours total)
- Emergency Room volunteer for two summers (120 hours)
- Volunteer in inpatient care unit (~20 hours)
- Nursing home volunteer (~20 hours)

Research Experience and Productivity
-1 year of biology research (~600 hours)
-research fellowship through national organization
-two campus research awards
-3 poster presentations, 1 at national conference
-no publications

Shadowing Experience and Specialties (~70 hours total)
-family medicine
-internal medicine
-general surgery
-orthopedics
-dermatology
-physical therapy

Non-Clinical Volunteering (~500)
-youth athletic camp volunteer for three years
-helped organize food drives and Christmas present drives for underprivileged families

Extracurricular Activities/Leadership/Work Experience
- Captain of Division I athletic team (600 hours per year)
-teaching assistant for undergraduate science lab for one year (180 hours)
-officer for undergraduate medical club for two years

Relevant Honors/Awards
- five biology department and honors college scholarships
- Dean's List for all completed semesters
-National Merit Scholar

Immediate family member in medicine: yes
Specialty of interest: potentially surgery or internal medicine
Interest in rural medicine: potentially

Current School List
-State schools
-Wake Forest
-University of Iowa
-Tulane
-Tufts
-Penn State
-University of Pittsburg (reach)
-Mayo (HUGE reach)
-University of Michigan (HUGE reach)
-Georgetown (HUGE reach)

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[Saturday’s Child]

-University of Pittsburg (reach)
-Mayo (HUGE reach)
-University of Michigan (HUGE reach)
-Georgetown (HUGE reach)

I don’t know if Georgetown would be considered a huge reach with your stats, they look to be solidly in range. If I remember correctly, their average GPA was in the 3.7’s and MCAT was <515. I think they’re more of a service-oriented school that really emphasizes the importance of students aligning with their mission, so they’d only be a reach for you if you couldn’t somehow demonstrate you were extremely service oriented.

 

[premedapplicant7777]

I don’t know if Georgetown would be considered a huge reach with your stats, they look to be solidly in range. If I remember correctly, their average GPA was in the 3.7’s and MCAT was <515. I think they’re more of a service-oriented school that really emphasizes the importance of students aligning with their mission, so they’d only be a reach for you if you couldn’t somehow demonstrate you were extremely service oriented.

Thanks you for the feedback! It is much appreciated! I see that Georgetown gets tons of applicants, but their stats aren't incredibly high. Do you know why their stats (MCAT and GPA) aren't higher?

 

[Goro]

I suggest the following:
Mt Sinai
Case (maybe)
U VM
U IA
U Toledo
USF Morsani
OH State
UCF
U Cincy
Miami
St. Louis
Albany
Albert Einstein
Rochester
Rush
Rosy Franklin
NYMC
EVMS
Wake Forest
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
Tulane
USCKeck
Dartmouth
Seton Hall
MCW
Loyola
Emory
BU
Duke
Pitt
Hofstra
Tufts
Oakland-B
Western MI
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Nova MD
CUSM IF you're from CA
Kaiser IF you're from CA
Your state school(s).

 

[Saturday’s Child]

Thanks you for the feedback! It is much appreciated! I see that Georgetown gets tons of applicants, but their stats aren't incredibly high. Do you know why their stats (MCAT and GPA) aren't higher?

No problem. And like I said, I think it is possible that they look more at fit than stats, so maybe the people who go there didn’t have incredible numbers but were really in line with the school’s mission. I’m sure you can look on their admissions page to get a better idea of what that mission is exactly.

 

[premedapplicant7777]

I suggest the following:
Mt Sinai
Case (maybe)
U VM
U IA
U Toledo
USF Morsani
OH State
UCF
U Cincy
Miami
St. Louis
Albany
Albert Einstein
Rochester
Rush
Rosy Franklin
NYMC
EVMS
Wake Forest
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
Tulane
USCKeck
Dartmouth
Seton Hall
MCW
Loyola
Emory
BU
Duke
Pitt
Hofstra
Tufts
Oakland-B
Western MI
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Nova MD
CUSM IF you're from CA
Kaiser IF you're from CA
Your state school(s).

Thank you so much for your feedback! I'll look into adding a few more of these schools.