School List Help

[crazyasian]

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So I'm planning on applying to 20+ schools to ensure that I get in. If you could tell me how i fare and maybe some advice on my schools I would really appreciate it. I will be doing a study abroad in Europe from June 28th-august 3rd so I'm am a little worried about secondaries. If anybody knows of competitive schools for me with easy secondaries then I'm more than happy to put another one in the pot. I'm Asian American and live in Utah.
My stats are 3.83 undergraduate GPA with BS in Microbiology. 25 1st time on mcat and 2nd time a 31 ( 9/11/11 stupid physical) on my Mcat I've done a lot of ec's (at least i feel i have).

1. I've been a red cross instructor since 2008 (150+ hrs)
2. Hospice volunteer since 2006 (3 hrs a week since starting)
3. martial arts 10 hrs a week since 2003 (2nd degree bb) and taught at my studio every weekend for a summer
4. managed a 30+ hr a week job since 2005, where im a manager and i fix computers
5. researched 3 semester with an oral presention, and 2 poster presentations at various conferences
6. webmaster for various ppl, companies etc (~50 hrs previous 4 yrs)
7. spent my last spring break in sf with habitat for humanity building houses for a week
8. vp of habitat for humanity for 1 semester (~ 3hrs/week)
9. Early college ambassador for a yr and early college club VP (~4hrs/ week)
10. ogden youth guild for 2 yrs (2hrs/ week or about 50 hrs total)
11. physician shadowing for about 50 hrs
12. linger longer committee at my church 2 hrs per week started beginning of this yr
13. first assistant at my church (3 hrs/week) for a yr
14. study abroad in France
15. big brothers big sisters since 05 (15hrs-30hrs/week depending on how conservative i want to be)
16. CIO search committee for my school over a 3 month period about 5hrs/week during most of it for ~60hrs
17. sexual assault counselor since 2010, I am on call 2x a week for a total of 48hrs of on call time/week or 6hrs per month of actual counseling time
18. domestic violence counselor started this month not sure how much time it will take up but im on call 24hrs/week
    
19. youth city council mayor for 2 yrs (well i was doing it 4 yrs but only 2 of it was during my college ~2hrs/week total conservatively 150hrs over 2 yrs)
    

Reach Schools
Mayo
Columbia
Hawaii (parents were legacy so only 1 tie to state)
Oregon (girlfriend possibly my fiance is planning on going here)
University of California San Francisco

Competitive
Georgetown
Tulane
Drexel
Albany Medical College
Vermont
University of Utah
Medical college of Wisconsin
Virginia commonwealth
Toledo


Safety schools
Rosalind
Creighton
Wright
Oaklanduniversity
Lomalinda

 

[crazyasian]

anybody?

 

[Swiss Medical]

hold on a sec...Let me put out my msar.....

Edit:
Let's see...

I would put boston on your list...small applicant pool.
VCU....oos friendly
Virginia commonwealth...oos friendly
FIU
Florida Atlantic
George Washington

I also want you to consider regional ties and proimity, so that imcludes..
Univ of Arizona
Univ. of colorado...

I would also add University of Mass.
New York medical

In regards to your list, I want to ask why rosalind Fanklin is a safety school for you??

 

[crazyasian]

Other than a counselor telling me it would make a good safety school...none. Thx for the post I actually did add Arizona and VCU. I was told by my counselor that Colorado never accepts students from Utah. Although I sometimes question my pre-med adviser. I would love to go to colorado because of its proximity to utah.

 

[bassvp]

Other than a counselor telling me it would make a good safety school...none. Thx for the post I actually did add Arizona and VCU. I was told by my counselor that Colorado never accepts students from Utah. Although I sometimes question my pre-med adviser. I would love to go to colorado because of its proximity to utah.

I'm not sure that that is correct. It just seems that 25% of the class is OOS any given year, but I'm not sure why they wouldn't allow Utah unless they're mad at Utah only accepting applicants with STRONG Utah ties.

 

[sector9]

Cross off Oregon- they'll only consider OOSers with a 32 or higher on MCAT

I'm not sure why Swiss Medical wants you to add U Mass when they only accept Massachusetts residents. Utah =/= Massachusetts, Swiss Medical

Columbia, Mayo, and UCSF are definitely reaches for you due to the lowish MCAT and the low research (compared to their expectations as high research schools). I would advise you against applying to UCSF due to their CA preference and the other reasons I just described. The others are high reaches that might not be worth applying to