WAMC: 3.59/518, ORM (3.85 SMP)

[jelly1349]

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Hello!

Thank you for helping me out! I am having trouble coming up with a good school list given my experience at an SMP, if you could give me some recs I would greatly appreciate!

• State/Country of Residence:
• Ties to other States/Regions: No
• Ethncity?:
• Year in School:
• Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Biology
• Graduate Degrees (if applicable):
• Cumulative GPA:
• Science GPA:
• MCAT Score(s):
• Research Experience: 2 years of clinical research with one 2nd-author pub and one acknowledgement in journal. 2 years of basic science research. Will have 1 year of clinical research while I apply with hopes to publish or present posters
• Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): 2nd author publication
• Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): clinical research was paid for 2 years and worked with patients; will be a scribe this year
• Physician Shadowing: only shadowed my PI and her colleagues a few times? maybe 30 hours. should I do more shadowing before applying in June? I've been very busy with SMP coursework
• Non-Clinical Volunteering:
• Other Extracurricular Activities:
  • will hopefully be a TA or tutor for my SMP while I apply
• Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): No
• Specialty of Interest (if applicable):
• Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Yes
• Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): No
• Medical School List:

Drexel
Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
Dartmouth
Boston University
Tufts
Brown
Hofstra
Georgetown
Einstein
UCSD
University of Arizona College of Medicine
University of Southern California

Would it be worth to apply to top schools given my circumstances?
UCLA
Yale
John's Hopkins
University of Pennsylvania
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Harvard University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Northwestern

 

[Banco]

Great job on the SMP and MCAT. Your application is well rounded activities wise and you have had productive research. Make sure to clearly state your clinical research gave you clinical experience with patients (and write/talk about this). Your current school list is okay, but a bit short. You should expand it (aim for at least 20-25 schools total).

Look into the following: Rochester, Cincinnati, Vermont, Emory, Jefferson, Temple, Pitt, Miami, OSU, NYMC, USF, Western Michigan, Loyola, MCW, Creighton, SLU, Kaiser, Stony Brook.


With regards to the top schools, I think you should definitely throw a few of those in as your MCAT + SMP + Research combo make you very suitable, but they are still reaches and should be treated as such. Maybe see for which ones your GPA is >10th percentile and go from there.