Should I not apply this year?

[MarqU]

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Hi! Here's some of my statistics- please let me know what you think 🙁

Going to be a junior at Brown University. Regular GPA and sGPA: Around a 3.66/3.67 by the end of the year. Concentration: Neuroscience.
MCAT score: Haven't taken it yet, but at least going for a 34.
URM
Residential state: New York.

Some extracirriculars:
-Part of the pre-med groups on campus
-Clinical-based research for a year
-Neurobiology research this summer
-Volunteering at a hospital over 100 hours, worked at free clinics (a pretty decent amount of volunteering basically- lots of exposure with patients)
-Planning on shadowing a physician this year, have done a little bit of shadowing when volunteering however
-Leader of a dance group, plays the violin (was in the orchestra), leader of an outdoors group, leadership in a sorority house

Is there anything else I can do? Can you please give me suggestions for schools? (Just trying to get into 1!!!)
Here's some I was thinking:
All of the SUNY schools, Tufts University, Temple University, Hofstra University... can't seem to find any more. Please give me some suggestions if possible. Thank you so much!

 

[1289]

by "this year" i assume you mean next summer. being URM and already having that great GPA you're going to be really successful next cycle as long as you can get an mcat 28+. and you have a multitude of schools available to you as a NY res, look into NYMC, NYU, rochester, albany.

 

[Charles Darwin]

When are you taking the MCAT? If your test date is in August you may want to consider applying for this cycle.

 

[1289]

When are you taking the MCAT? If your test date is in August you may want to consider applying for this cycle.

op is going to be a junior. unless they're graduating early, cant really apply this cycle.

 

[Charles Darwin]

op is going to be a junior. unless they're graduating early, cant really apply this cycle.

Ah, I didn't read that.

Carry on, OP. Looks good so far. 👍

 

[MarqU]

Thanks so much for your input and motivation. And yes, sorry, I meant to say next cycle! Sorry!

I was mostly just wondering if my GPA was on the "low-end" of the spectrum, or if it is competitive for medical school. Does my concentration matter in any way? (It's rigor?) Other than that, thanks so much for your input!!