MD URM 3.7 510 - is this list okay?

[treesarefrends]

Hi,
I just got my MCAT score yesterday and would appreciate any insight into building a realistic school list. I'm a bit at a lost right now. My WARS was 80 and I feel like it's too high...

1. ⁠State/Country of Residence: Born + raised in Puerto Rico - currently working in Boston
2. ⁠Ties to other States/Regions: GA, MA, PR
3. ⁠Year in School: 2018 - but finished coursework this spring
4. ⁠Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Public Health + Gender Studies
5. ⁠Graduate Degrees (if applicable): N/A
6. ⁠Cumulative GPA: 3.74
7. ⁠Science GPA: around 3.6 (Strong upward trend)
8. ⁠MCAT Score(s): 510 (127/129/127/127)
9. ⁠Research Experience: 3000+ hrs working as a clinical research coordinator in palliative care, 850 hrs on thesis on Latinx women's health, 150 hrs as a research assistant on a transcultural psychiatry lab
10. ⁠Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. First author, second author, etc.): 2 publications (1 co-first author, 1 second author just got accepted) working on one more first-author right now and have multiple posters as first and second author at national conference
11. ⁠Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): 3000+ hrs working as a clinical research coordinator in palliative care, 70 as a hospital volunteer
12. ⁠Physician Shadowing: 55 (Ob-Gyn, Psychiatry, and Radiation Oncology) wanted some primary care but COVID
13. ⁠Non-Clinical Volunteering: 500 hrs as a sexual health educator/peer counselor, 400 hrs with Red Cross, 60 with Big Brothers Big Sister, 200 hrs teaching/mentoring other URM in STEM
14. ⁠Other Extracurricular Activities: was part of student health advisory board on campus and participated in a play to raise funds for a local NGO
15. Other jobs: marketing job through college but didn't talk about this in my app, camp counselor at a camp for low-income students
16. ⁠Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N (URM)
17. ⁠Specialty of Interest (if applicable): unclear yet
18. ⁠Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Y
19. ⁠Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): Not particularly but strong interest in working with underserved

School list: Is it too low yield? Prefer to stay in the East Coast but open to other regions like South and Midwest.

Georgetown

GW

Tulane

Tufts

Boston University

Emory

UMiami

Duke (mega reach!!)

Cornell (mega reach!!)

Michigan (mega reach!!)

Dartmouth

Drexel

Rush

Loyola Stritch

Temple

Jefferson

Einstein

Vermont

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[Faha]

Remove the reaches and consider adding any of these schools:
Quinnipiac
Hofstra
Seton Hall
Mount Sinai
USF Morsani
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Central Florida
NOVA MD
TCU-UNT
Rosalind Franklin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State

 

[treesarefrends]

Remove the reaches and consider adding any of these schools:
Quinnipiac
Hofstra
Seton Hall
Mount Sinai
USF Morsani
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Central Florida
NOVA MD
TCU-UNT
Rosalind Franklin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State

Thank you so much!!!