Hello! I am trying to build a school list and would appreciate any advice/recommendations/comments.
Overview:
2025-2026 cycle
Non-gap year
Stats:
Current GPA: 3.88 / sGPA: 3.83
State: Missouri
Asian female, ORM
T20 undergrad
Clinical Experience:
350 volunteer hours at Cancer Center
250 volunteer hours at Children's Hospital
500 work hours as a patient care tech
-have received 10 TULIPS (award for patient care)
Research:
1000 hours phage research leading to 6 published annotations (not a journal paper, just annotations in a database) and 1 poster presentation
1500 hours stroke lab -> potential 2nd author publication this spring
Shadowing:
50 hours in the ED
Non-clinical volunteering:
Cat shelter (250 hours)
Policy change in ED (100 hours)
Other extracurricular:
TA-ed for multiple courses: orgo, phage bioinformatics, genetics, calculus 3 (combined total of about 350 hours)
Potential school list:
I know it is a bit top heavy right now so any edits would be helpful! I also don't know too much about OOS/IS bias so that would also be helpful to know as I edit my list.
Brown
Boston
Columbia
UPenn
Yale
Uchicago
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
WashU
Mayo Clinic
Duke
UVA
Baylor
Cornell
Stanford
Case Western
Mount Sinai
UMich
Zucker School of Medicine
UCSF
Emory
USC
University of Colorado
Einstein
UC Irvine
UNC
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
UC San Diego
Umass Chan
Tufts
UCLA
Overview:
2025-2026 cycle
Non-gap year
Stats:
Current GPA: 3.88 / sGPA: 3.83
State: Missouri
Asian female, ORM
T20 undergrad
Clinical Experience:
350 volunteer hours at Cancer Center
250 volunteer hours at Children's Hospital
500 work hours as a patient care tech
-have received 10 TULIPS (award for patient care)
Research:
1000 hours phage research leading to 6 published annotations (not a journal paper, just annotations in a database) and 1 poster presentation
1500 hours stroke lab -> potential 2nd author publication this spring
Shadowing:
50 hours in the ED
Non-clinical volunteering:
Cat shelter (250 hours)
Policy change in ED (100 hours)
Other extracurricular:
TA-ed for multiple courses: orgo, phage bioinformatics, genetics, calculus 3 (combined total of about 350 hours)
Potential school list:
I know it is a bit top heavy right now so any edits would be helpful! I also don't know too much about OOS/IS bias so that would also be helpful to know as I edit my list.
Brown
Boston
Columbia
UPenn
Yale
Uchicago
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
WashU
Mayo Clinic
Duke
UVA
Baylor
Cornell
Stanford
Case Western
Mount Sinai
UMich
Zucker School of Medicine
UCSF
Emory
USC
University of Colorado
Einstein
UC Irvine
UNC
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
UC San Diego
Umass Chan
Tufts
UCLA
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