School list help --> not sure if too top heavy

[fishrfriendsnotfood]

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3.9X GPA and 510 MCAT (124 CARS) from a top 20 university in north



State of residence: PA

Current Academic Standing: junior

List:

Temple

Jefferson

PSU

Drexel

UPenn (reach)

Pitt (reach)

Rutgers Robert Wood

Cooper

Miami

GW

Georgetown

NYMC

SUNY Downstate

Tufts

Wake Forest

VCU

UMD

Emory

Miami

Albert Einstein (reach)

Loyola Chicago

Rosalind Franklin

Ohio State

Brown

Dartmouth

Michigan (reach)

Tulane

UMass

Stony Brook

Sinai (reach)





As for my ECs ... will be a bit vague because of anonymity, but definitely have some unique activities and a good story.



Leadership: leader in multiple orgs/TA/etc

Research: 1000+ hours (multiple pubs, several conference posters and presentations) through multiple labs

Clinical and non-clinical: prob will be 150-200 in clinical by app time and 200+ in nonclinical

Shadowing: 150+ hours

Recs: very confident will be great



Sorry if this isn't the proper format ... would like to know if my list is too top heavy and if i should apply to other schools. Thanks!!

 

[965978]

How can I say this in the nicest way possible.....?

Everyone thinks their EC's are unique and interesting

 

[965978]

I'd remove the following, mostly cause you’re OOS:

UMass
UMD
Brown
SUNY Downstate

ADD:
SLU
Tulane
Quinnipac
Creighton
Seton Hall
TCU

When it comes to the reaches (keep in mind, Emory, Brown, and Dartmouth are likely also reaches for you), you have quite an uphill battle with a 510 and lower than average CARS. I really hope you ECs actually are unique and interesting.

 

[Goro]

3.9X GPA and 510 MCAT (124 CARS) from a top 20 university in north



Shadowing: 150+ hours

Recs: very confident will be great

Sorry if this isn't the proper format ... would like to know if my list is too top heavy and if i should apply to other schools. Thanks!!

Here is a more realistic list:
U Toledo
Miami
Tufts
George Washington
Georgetown
SLU
Albany
Rosy Franklin
NYMC
MCW
VCU
EVMS
Wayne State
Wake Forest
Netter
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
Tulane
Loyola
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
Oakland-B
Seton Hall
Nova MD
TCMC

Any DO program. I can't recommend Touro-NY, Nova, Wm Carey, LUCOM, for different reasons. MSUCOM? Read up on Larry Nasser and you decide. LMU has an accreditation warning, which concerns me.

 

[DrFortiusNatando]

Definitely agree with GORO. The state schools for which you would be OOS (SUNY, Stony Brook, UMASS, UMD, Rutgers etc) are just so low yield that you should not waste your time and money, especially if you are ORM. While some of these schools do take more OOS than some others, for their OOS acceptances, they are taking a lot of high stat and/or otherwise unique and diverse students to balance out their in-state applicants.

If you are ORM and coming directly from UG, you will have to have really strong PS and secondaries so that a holistic review of your application will reveal a compelling reason to accept you.

And do not be afraid to take a gap year. You want your first application to be your best application. Moreover, it is incredibly hard to go to classes, write papers, take exams, do your EC's and research, while applying and going on interviews, and most students do better in interviews when they are out in the real world and have real world experiences from which to draw. What is the rush?

 

[965978]

Definitely agree with GORO. The state schools for which you would be OOS (SUNY, Stony Brook, UMASS, UMD, Rutgers etc) are just so low yield that you should not waste your time and money, especially if you are ORM.

OMG I said that xD

 

[B4y 4RE4 N4Tiv3]

take out Emory, all your section scores have to be at least 125 for all sections