Should I apply to more schools?

[.....J]

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Hey Y’all, I’m a non-Canadian, Asian, international applicant. I’m have submitted to 20 schools and plan to submit 24 in total. I’m sincerely worried if I am applying to enough schools, so would you guys give me some suggestions? (Need I apply to more? Which tier? And any schools you know that accept international students)

My stats
overall GPA: 3.7; Science: 3.53

I did horribly sophomore year but did really well afterwards

MCAT: 514 (130/123/132/129) and I took MCAT three times and my highest CARS score is 126

I graduated from UCLA with a major in molecular biology and two minors in theater and environmental engineering. I have more than 300 hospital volunteering hours, did lots of acting and community service. Spent two years in a research lab and is the second author on a Cell paper.

Schools I already applied to:

Sidney Kimmel MC
Saint Louis
West Virginia (rejected)
Georgetown
WashU in Saint Louis
UCLA
Stony Brook
USC
Case Western
Emory
Geisel
Stanford
Tulane
Mount Sinai
Harvard
Pittsburg
Vanderbilt
SUNY
BU Med
UCSD

Schools I’m still working on:



Penn State
Loma Linda
Brown
Columbia

Thank you all for reading through my long post and please let me know what you all think!!

 

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Hey Y’all, I’m a non-Canadian, Asian, international applicant. I’m have submitted to 20 schools and plan to submit 24 in total. I’m sincerely worried if I am applying to enough schools, so would you guys give me some suggestions? (Need I apply to more? Which tier? And any schools you know that accept international students)

My stats
overall GPA: 3.7; Science: 3.53

I did horribly sophomore year but did really well afterwards

MCAT: 514 (130/123/132/129) and I took MCAT three times and my highest CARS score is 126

I graduated from UCLA with a major in molecular biology and two minors in theater and environmental engineering. I have more than 300 hospital volunteering hours, did lots of acting and community service. Spent two years in a research lab and is the second author on a Cell paper.

Schools I already applied to:

Sidney Kimmel MC
Saint Louis
West Virginia (rejected)
Georgetown
WashU in Saint Louis
UCLA
Stony Brook
USC
Case Western
Emory
Geisel
Stanford
Tulane
Mount Sinai
Harvard
Pittsburg
Vanderbilt
SUNY
BU Med
UCSD

Schools I’m still working on:



Penn State
Loma Linda
Brown
Columbia

Thank you all for reading through my long post and please let me know what you all think!!

You may need more schools closer to your GPA and MCAT range.
Get the MSAR and see the median MCAT and GPA. Stats would be slightly more forgiving if you were URM which you are not.
Im also a premed so I have no true insight on this but faculty members like
@Goro can better advise...
They may also say some of the schools on your list are donations. ... but hey
Shoot your shot!

 

[Toutie]

You have way too many top schools on your list for your stats. You need to get the MSAR and choose schools that better match your stats and that also take internationals.