Submitted 74 primaries... Which schools should I submit secondaries to?

[yourmcatbuddy]

Hi all,



I have currently submitted secondaries to these schools:

NYU Long Island

University of Michigan

University of Massachusetts

Cornell

Icahn (Mount Sinai)

Thomas Jefferson University (Kimmel)

University of Miami (Miller)

University of Virginia

Northwestern University (Feinberg)

University of Utah

Georgetown University

University of Cincinnati

University of South Florida

University of Central Florida

University of Rochester

Duke University

University of Chicago (Pritzker)

Boston University

University of Pittsburgh

University of California--Los Angeles (Geffen)

Washington University (St. Louis)

Dartmouth College (Geisel)

George Washington Univeristy

Mayo Clinic

Columbia

NYU Grossman

Einstein

Harvard

Ohio State

Kaiser Permanente

Brown University

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Yale University

Case Western University

Stony Brook

SUNY Upstate

University of California--Irvine

Stanford University

University of Alabama--Birmingham

Emory University

Hofstra University

Tufts University

Chicago Medical School (Rosalind Franklin)

Vermont

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

University of California--San Francisco

Albany

Here are the schools I have submitted primaries to but not secondaries, please let me know which ones you think I should do:

Johns Hopkins

UPenn Perelman

Mercer University

Penn State

Rush

Saint Louis University

University at Buffalo (Jacobs)

University of Illinois

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Virginia Tech

Wake Forest

West Virginia University

Drexel University

University of Maryland

Oakland

Creighton

Quinnipiac University

University of Arizona--Phoenix

Temple University

Tulane

University of California--San Diego

Oregon

University of Minnesota

Vanderbilt University

University of Colorado

University of Southern California (Keck)

University of Iowa

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[monkeym8]

goodness gracious

 

[yourmcatbuddy]

@LizzyM would really appreciate your review, if you get a chance

 

[wysdoc]

Well, do Mercer as your last Georgia school

Leave off Minnesota, UCSD, UA Phoenix, Oregon, UNC Chapel Hill, Buffalo as being not so friendly to OOS or out of region applicants

 

[yourmcatbuddy]

Well, do Mercer as your last Georgia school

Leave off Minnesota, UCSD, UA Phoenix, Oregon, UNC Chapel Hill, Buffalo as being not so friendly to OOS or out of region applicants

Thanks so much! Do you think I should replace these with any other schools? and any thoughts on the submitted schools and the other ones?

 

[wysdoc]

Thanks so much! Do you think I should replace these with any other schools? and any thoughts on the submitted schools and the other ones?

no, don't add more!

oops, I see what you meant, which of the remaining 73 should you write

 

[Faha]

You could add Mercer, Wake Forest, Drexel, Oakland, Temple

 

[Mr.Smile12]

300 non clinical volunteer (foreign experience)
300 clin volunteer (foreign experience)
300 hours leadership (foreign experience)
100 hours U.S. shadowing and 100 hours foreign shadowing
600 hours tutoring/teaching

So you have no community service in the United States? You just started scribing.

 

[yourmcatbuddy]

So you have no community service in the United States? You just started scribing.

tutoring and through some clubs in school, also hospital volunteering that started a couple months ago

I'm trying to continue balancing volunteering with my upcoming scribe role and also classes but would appreciate any thoughts on the app

 

[yourmcatbuddy]

would really appreciate any thoughts you have as well @Goro

I've been really worried about my clinical experience being mainly foreign and I'm striving to prioritize that now through my ongoing volunteer work and upcoming scribe role

 

[MyOdyssey]

What classes are you taking?

 

[Goro]

Filling out > 40 secondaries is foolish. You'll burn yourself out and the quality of your writing will go downhill. Fast.
You'll need to have service to other less fortunate than yourself here in the US.

Here's a more realistic list

Mercer University
Saint Louis University
Wake Forest
Drexel University
Oakland
Creighton
Temple University
Vanderbilt University
University of Colorado
University of Southern California (Keck)
University of Iowa

 

[yourmcatbuddy]

Filling out > 40 secondaries is foolish. You'll burn yourself out and the quality of your writing will go downhill. Fast.
You'll need to have service to other less fortunate than yourself here in the US.

Here's a more realistic list

Mercer University
Saint Louis University
Wake Forest
Drexel University
Oakland
Creighton
Temple University
Vanderbilt University
University of Colorado
University of Southern California (Keck)
University of Iowa

thank you, is it okay if I'm getting that experience now?

 

[Goro]

thank you, is it okay if I'm getting that experience now?

Taking a gap year?

 

[candbgirl]

thank you, is it okay if I'm getting that experience now?

Okay isn’t the word. It is what you have decided to do. Some ADCOMS will try to understand and it will give you something to update once you get 100+ hours. But understand, most of your fellow applicants will have everything already. Projected hours are just that projected and don’t count for much. People know that projected hours might or might not happen.

 

[LizzyM]

Stop. Take a look at how this cycle plays out. You've already applied to some schools where your GPA and/or averaged MCAT are well below the average for that school. You've also applied with almost no US experience yet you think you want to attend school and train in the US. On what do you base that decision?

Let's see how this application cycle plays out. Don't throw anymore time and money into this cycle aside from attending interviews.