WAMC Help with School List CAORM High Stats Weak ECs

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Hi everyone, I already submitted my primary app with one throwaway school and am looking to now finalize the rest of my school list. My main concern is that I have high stats but weak ECs (though my app does mostly revolve around a theme -- not sure if that will be of any benefit to me), so I am unsure of which schools to aim for.

• cGPA/sGPA: 3.9
• MCAT: 523 (130/131/130/132)
• State of residence: CA
• Ethnicity/Race: White
• Undergrad: UC school
• Clinical Experience:
  • 75 hours in a rehab center/nursing home
  • 250 hours hospital volunteering
  • 15 hours in scribe job I started last month (projected 1500 on app for my gap year)
• Research Experience:
  • No posters/pubs/abstracts
  • 150 hours in one lab (left after one year due to extenuating circumstances)
  • 100 hours in a project I joined this year
  • 70 hours in another project I joined this year
• Shadowing: 65 hrs in 2 specialties
• Non-clinical Volunteering:
  • 200 hours crisis counseling
  • 100 hours for a student service org
• Leadership
  • 300 hours for another student service org
• Paid Employment
  • 300 hours as a tutor
• No honors/awards

Here is my current school list below, I'd like to apply to 40 schools total (including the 1 I already submitted). Any advice on what to add/remove is much appreciated!

1. UCSF
2. UCD
3. UCSD
4. UCLA
5. UCR
6. UCI
7. Kaiser
8. Keck
9. Stanford
10. Vanderbilt
11. UChicago
12. WashU
13. NYU
14. Columbia
15. Hofstra
16. UVA
17. UPenn
18. USF Morsani
19. Hopkins
20. Vermont
21. SLU
22. Indiana U
23. Cincinnati
24. U of Miami
25. Tufts
26. Rochester
27. Tulane
28. Wake Forest
29. Sidney Kimmel at Jefferson
30. Temple
31. Drexel
32. Emory
33. Ohio State
34. Oakland U
35. Boston U
36. Case Western
37. E Virginia
38. U of A Phoenix
39. U of Colorado
40. W Michigan
41. U of Michigan

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Remove Drexel, Temple, Oakland, Wake Forest and Indiana since they will "yield protect" with your stats. Remove UCR if you are not from that region. You could add Einstein, Mount Sinai, Northwestern.

 

[mfepwfjwoe]

Remove Drexel, Temple, Oakland, Wake Forest and Indiana since they will "yield protect" with your stats. Remove UCR if you are not from that region. You could add Einstein, Mount Sinai, Northwestern.

Got it, thanks so much for your help! I was worried that I didn't have enough research for schools like Einstein and Northwestern. Do you think I would have enough experience to have a shot?

 

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Got it, thanks so much for your help! I was worried that I didn't have enough research for schools like Einstein and Northwestern. Do you think I would have enough experience to have a shot?

Yes.