School List Help

[Adpotential2025]

I have been bombarded with 37 secondaries in the span of 10 days and I am at a point where I can't even think clearly and it has been getting way too stressful so I decided to prioritize around 25 schools and then see what happens after I get these out of the way. I need your help with my school list which I feel is a little bit top heavy but maybe that's just me. I have already submitted the first 15 schools on that list and working on the last 11.

Tufts School of Medicine

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

UMich

Sidney Kimmel at Jefferson

USF

Mount Sinai

UChicago

URochester

Zucker/Hofstra

Drexel

UMass

Cornell

Georgetown

Northwestern Feinberg

NYU

Ohio State

Pitt

Brown

Stanford

EVMS

Quini

George Washington

BU

UCLA

USC

NYMC

Backstory: Lived overseas for entire life and moved to the USA alone for college and to pursue medical school. Have a genuine story and reason to pursuing medicine fueled by the civil war I lived through back in my home country.

Male

Graduated from a regular tier state school.

State: MA

517 MCAT, 3.98 GPA

Graduated with Honors and Distinction in Biology

URM/ORM (never truly know what that means)

Clinical Volunteering (200 hospital, 700 COVID testing clinic while overseas during COVID)

Non clinical volunteering 1300 (very lengthy experience that I have been heavily involved in since 2017 takes 1000 these and 300 on experiences in the US)

Tutoring (150 hours)

Research (2000 hours, senior thesis, 2 posters, no pubs)

Shadowing (100 hours, 4 specialties)

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[Goro]

Delete EVMS, NETTER, DREXEL,

What exactly was your nonclinical volunteering?

 

[Adpotential2025]

Delete EVMS, NETTER, DREXEL,

What exactly was your nonclinical volunteering?

Working with displaced families back home since 2017 (Prepared winter clothing packages, prepared meals, food pantry, raised funds for victims of recent earthquake that hit, etc.)
Working at a homless shelter in Boston (prepared meals for the homeless)
Volunteering at Boston Celtics games to raise funds for their foundation (pretty much sold raffle tickets at the games nothing too crazy)

 

[Goro]

Make sure to take breaks to give your mind some rest.

 

[Adpotential2025]

Make sure to take breaks to give your mind some rest.

Will do! Just spent the last two days talking to friends and family and walking around the city because it got way too much for me especially with having COVID. Now hopefully I have a more manageable list. And since you think the list I have is not crazy and makes sense I feel a lot better. Hopefully can get this last 10 schools submitted in the next two weeks and get these secondaries out of the way! Truly appreciate the help and words of wisdom!!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

We told you so. 30 is my preferred upper limit and you should spend one day per secondary. You gotta grind it out now.

 

[Adpotential2025]

We told you so. 30 is my preferred upper limit and you should spend one day per secondary. You gotta grind it out now.

100%, it was so much easier to add 40 schools on my primary but the reality is, I don't think I have the bandwidth to complete all these secondaries. Now, I know better, I have submitted the first 15 on my list and I am now working on wrapping up the last 10 on my list. Hopefuly my list covers all the bases and gives me a good enough chance at atleast one of the schools I applied to.