School list!

[WUgrl]

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i know you are all probably sick of these posts, but if anyone's bored, here are my stats and potential school list:
3.71 gpa, 3.57 bcpm from wash u
36P mcat
lots of research, 1 summer of shadowing & volunteering, play piano

Schools:
1. Wash U
2. Johns Hopkins
3. Duke
4. U Penn
5. Baylor
6. Vanderbilt
7. Emory
8. Northwestern
9. Mayo
10. Case Western
11. UVA
12. Wisconsin
13. U Alabama-Birmingham
14. USC
15. Wake Forest
16. UT Memphis

Any comments? Am i being too optimistic? Any other suggestions? Thanks! 🙂

 

[cabnd]

i know you are all probably sick of these posts, but if anyone's bored, here are my stats and potential school list:
3.71 gpa, 3.57 bcpm from wash u
36P mcat
lots of research, 1 summer of shadowing & volunteering, play piano

Schools:
1. Wash U
2. Johns Hopkins
3. Duke
4. U Penn
5. Baylor
6. Vanderbilt
7. Emory
8. Northwestern
9. Mayo
10. Case Western
11. UVA
12. Wisconsin
13. U Alabama-Birmingham
14. USC
15. Wake Forest
16. UT Memphis

Any comments? Am i being too optimistic? Any other suggestions? Thanks! 🙂

Good mix of schools. I think you should make one addition.....UCLA!!!

 

[WUgrl]

thanks...yeah im still thinking about ucla and a few others...trying to keep my list down as much as i can!

 

[IndyZX]

No way, you're set! Great applicant!

 

[jpro]

With those stats you can pick and choose. You will most likely get interviews everywhere you apply, and may even turn some down.

 

[jpro]

No way, you're set! Great applicant!

That link is great. 👍

hahahahaha

 

[adamj61]

I would give up on Mayo...since I have been here I was told you need a letter from someone at Mayo, and its 40 out of 6,000. Other than that, rock on.

 

[WUgrl]

thanks for the advice! yeah i wasn't really sure about mayo - it just seemed like a unique and interesting place so i thought i might try...another question - im thinking about deferring for a year, and i've heard some schools are really strict about the types of things they'll allow you to do. i took a lot of french in high school and some in college, but i didn't really have time to keep it up after sophomore year...basically i really want to travel, refresh my french and learn other languages - would med schools generally look down upon going to europe for a few months for a language program, like a "learn spanish in spain" kind of thing? personally i think this would be really beneficial to my med school preparation, especially if i were learn spanish...are there any schools that are really picky about this or particularly anti-deferral that anyone knows of? thanks...

 

[Kazema]

This thread might help:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=93308&highlight=Defer

This one too, about languages:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=129365

 

[isosceles]

I would give up on Mayo...since I have been here I was told you need a letter from someone at Mayo, and its 40 out of 6,000. Other than that, rock on.

i know of someone who got in there without an internal reference. did they change their policy? anyone there know?

 

[Dr. Chiquita]

i know you are all probably sick of these posts, but if anyone's bored, here are my stats and potential school list:
3.71 gpa, 3.57 bcpm from wash u
36P mcat
lots of research, 1 summer of shadowing & volunteering, play piano

Schools:
1. Wash U
2. Johns Hopkins
3. Duke
4. U Penn
5. Baylor
6. Vanderbilt
7. Emory
8. Northwestern
9. Mayo
10. Case Western
11. UVA
12. Wisconsin
13. U Alabama-Birmingham
14. USC
15. Wake Forest
16. UT Memphis

Any comments? Am i being too optimistic? Any other suggestions? Thanks! 🙂

Hey WUgrl,

Everything looks good! Excellent undergrad/GPA/MCAT/EC's. But still, aren't you a little bit worried that your list might be a little bit top-heavy? Maybe you might want to add more "safety schools" then can drop out of them once you get into one of those fine schools on your list. Just my 2 cents. Good luck!

 

[jwin]

wu girl, i applied in 2003 and since i had similar stats from wash u (36 3.65 gpa), i thought i would share my list with you.

harvard, hopkins, duke, upenn, wash u, ucsf
case, emory, northwestern, u chicago, stanford
indiana, slu, tufts, tulane, jefferson

i got interviews offers from case, emory, chicago, wash u, slu, indiana, and tulane

but then i got a merit scholarship early from my state school so i only went on a few of the interviews (waitlisted at chicago and wash u but withdrew)

 

[leechy]

thanks for the advice! yeah i wasn't really sure about mayo - it just seemed like a unique and interesting place so i thought i might try...another question - im thinking about deferring for a year, and i've heard some schools are really strict about the types of things they'll allow you to do. i took a lot of french in high school and some in college, but i didn't really have time to keep it up after sophomore year...basically i really want to travel, refresh my french and learn other languages - would med schools generally look down upon going to europe for a few months for a language program, like a "learn spanish in spain" kind of thing? personally i think this would be really beneficial to my med school preparation, especially if i were learn spanish...are there any schools that are really picky about this or particularly anti-deferral that anyone knows of? thanks...

if your foreign language skills are strong, you could do a fulbright teaching assistantship in france... not too difficult to get and it looks good on one's resume. applications due in october. provided that the med school allows deferral, i don't think they'd particularly care what type of experience you were having... 🙂

 

[Newquagmire]

if your list of schools is in order of preference, i think you'll be alright because i would think you'd get into washu. why in the world you want to stay in st louis is beyond me.

 

[WUgrl]

thanks for the input everyone! no it's not really order of preference....just trying to find a variety of schools i could see myself at...i would kinda like to get away from st. louis, but it would be hard to turn down wash u if i did get in...just want to see what happens!