MD WAMC? 3.9 GPA / 516 MCAT Help with my school list wanted!

[musicalpug]

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Year in school: senior applying 2017 cycle

Major: Neuroscience

Country/state of residence: California

Schools to which you are applying: (roughly in order from "reach --> safe" lol nothing's safe)

Harvard

Johns Hopkins

Yale University

NYU

University of Chicago

Northwestern

Stanford

Columbia

University of Pittsburgh

UCSF

UCLA

UCSD

USC

Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

Cornell

University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Brown

Boston University

Oregon Health and Science University

Dartmouth

Tufts

UCI

UC Davis

Albany Medical College

Georgetown

University of Washington

Cumulative GPA: 3.90

Science GPA: 3.89

MCAT Scores: 516 (129/129/129/129)

Research:
1) Clinical research position doing cognitive testing directly with schizophrenic patients for 200 hours
2) Research in neuroplasticity lab 400 hours and have presented a poster and will be on 1 publication

Volunteering (clinical): 50 hours of patient escort volunteering at hospital - I am starting another volunteering position at a hospital this quarter and will complete about 100 hrs

Physician shadowing: 30 hours of shadowing a neurologist and continuing

Non-clinical volunteering:
1) Community service a cappella performances at nursing homes, veterans’ homes, women’s shelters, and hospitals (200 hours)
2) Mentoring for middle school students (90 hours)
3) Alumni Scholars Club Marketing Coordinator and Alumni Relations Coordinator (60 hours)

Extracurricular activities: Community service a cappella group rehearsals (500 hours) currently music director

Employment history: Part-time summer jobs at: 1) Nekter Juice bar 2) Clinqa Coroporations Chemistry Technician

 

[Faha]

You are applying to many reach schools and your clinical volunteering and shadowing hours are on the low side. Add more schools such as:
Medical College Wisconsin
Tulane
Rosalind Franklin
St. Louis
Arizona (Tucson and Phoenix)
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac
Oakland Beaumont
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson

 

[musicalpug]

You are applying to many reach schools and your clinical volunteering and shadowing hours are on the low side. Add more schools such as:
Medical College Wisconsin
Tulane
Rosalind Franklin
St. Louis
Arizona (Tucson and Phoenix)
New York Medical College
Quinnipiac
Oakland Beaumont
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson

Thanks for the feedback.

Edit: I added Oakland Beaumont, Drexel, Temple, and Jefferson to my list. Are there any you suggest I remove?

 

[Toutie]

Delete University of Washington. They take VERY few OOS non-WWAMI. And I'm pretty sure Oregon is also very difficult for OOS.

 

[musicalpug]

Delete University of Washington. They take VERY few OOS non-WWAMI. And I'm pretty sure Oregon is also very difficult for OOS.

Noted, thanks.