Should I bother applying to top 20 schools?

[migosonfire]

Background: Just finished Undergrad, African American
GPA: cGPA: 3.71 sGPA: 3.63 Strong upward trend 3.9-4.0 last 3 years, first year got me a little bit

MCAT: 507 - Really messed up, but too late to retake
ECs:
-Recently went on a mission to Ethiopia to shadow a rural surgeon over 100 hours shadowing
-500 clinical volunteering
-5000 various volunteering in my underserved community over the decade
-200 hours helping Syrian refugees
-100 over hours Chinese students get accustomed to life at my University, was basically like a big brother and tried to help these students.
-300 hours of general research - will be in a lab during my gap year expanding my research during my gap year
- Held down many jobs throughout school and tried to divide my time as much as possible
-Couple of other little things here and there

My Question is I'm below the 10% MSAR for most of them, is it even worth applying honestly

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[gyngyn]

As long as you apply to all the HBCU's and your state schools, you may certainly add some reaches.

 

[Sharknad0]

I say yes, as a URM and with pretty great ECs you have a chance. Do you have shadowing in the US?

 

[Goro]

Background: Just finished Undergrad, African American
GPA: cGPA: 3.71 sGPA: 3.63 Strong upward trend 3.9-4.0 last 3 years, first year got me a little bit

MCAT: 507 - Really messed up, but too late to retake
ECs:
-Recently went on a mission to Ethiopia to shadow a rural surgeon over 100 hours shadowing
-500 clinical volunteering
-5000 various volunteering in my underserved community over the decade
-200 hours helping Syrian refugees
-100 over hours Chinese students get accustomed to life at my University, was basically like a big brother and tried to help these students.
-300 hours of general research - will be in a lab during my gap year expanding my research during my gap year
- Held down many jobs throughout school and tried to divide my time as much as possible
-Couple of other little things here and there

My Question is I'm below the 10% MSAR for most of them, is it even worth applying honestly

YES!!!

 

[Dox4lyfe]

Make sure you apply to enough target schools. After that, shoot for the stars brotha!!