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Year in school: 3rd
State of Residence: IL
Schools to which you are applying: Need alot of help here... Trying to narrow it down but currently have (bolded = if I had to submit right now these would be the schools I'd choose)
Illinois Schools (6/6): Loyola, Northwestern, Rosalind Franklin, Rush, U of Chicago, U of Illinois
Reach (5/8) : Stanford, John Hopkins, Duke, Columbia, UCSF, Washington University at St. Louis, U of Penn, Yale,
Open to not applying to Stanford or UCSF and instead applying to more Safety Schools?
In-range (17/19): U of Mich, UCLA, NYU, Vanderbilt, U of Pitt, UCSD, Cornell, Icahn, Baylor, Mayo, Case Western, *Emory, **U of Virginia, Ohio State, USC-Keck, U of Rochester, Dartmouth , Albert Einstein, Hofstra
Thinking of taking off UCLA and UCSD from the list due to high IS bias so they'll probably be expecting killer stats.. Thinking of applying to Dartmouth but I heard they have a preference for their own UGs and nontrads?
"Safety" Schools (11/21): USF-Morsani, U of Cinncinati, Miami U, Indiana U, MC Wisconsin, Wake Forest, Tufts, BU, Jacobs School of Medicine at Buffalo (have family connect), Virginia Tech, Wayne State, SUNY Downstate, EVMS, U of central Florida, Tulane, Georgetown, George Washington, Temple, Drexel, Thomas Jefferson, VCU,
Should I apply to more of the low yield schools (ie. Georgetown, Drexel, etc)/?
cGPA: 3.95
sGPA: 3.95
MCAT: 515 (130/126/131/128)
Research: toxicology lab for 150 hours for 6 months, 1 year at a biology lab working full-time during the summer and doing thesis during the year (1000 hours) presented one poster at a student conference at my university, 200 hours over 6 months at a genetics lab (still ongoing + possible pub in the process although this wont happen before july), 1 year at a cancer lab (1000 hours)
Clinical Volunteering: 400 hours volunteering in a rural hospital over 4 years, 300 hours volunteering in a cardiology clinic over 1.5 years
Physician Shadowing: 60 hours with 1 doctor (should I diversify??)
Non-clinical Volunteering: volunteering at a homeless shelter for 300 hours over 2 years, volunteering with at-risk youth for 300 hours, tutoring for 80 hours
Extracurricular Activities: intramural sports, running Employment History: 2 years as an intramural ref (150 hours), 2 summers as a research assistant (including above)
Immediate family members in medicine? n
Specialty of interest: surgery but who really knows
Graduate Degrees: n
Interest in rural health: n
State of Residence: IL
Schools to which you are applying: Need alot of help here... Trying to narrow it down but currently have (bolded = if I had to submit right now these would be the schools I'd choose)
Illinois Schools (6/6): Loyola, Northwestern, Rosalind Franklin, Rush, U of Chicago, U of Illinois
Reach (5/8) : Stanford, John Hopkins, Duke, Columbia, UCSF, Washington University at St. Louis, U of Penn, Yale,
Open to not applying to Stanford or UCSF and instead applying to more Safety Schools?
In-range (17/19): U of Mich, UCLA, NYU, Vanderbilt, U of Pitt, UCSD, Cornell, Icahn, Baylor, Mayo, Case Western, *Emory, **U of Virginia, Ohio State, USC-Keck, U of Rochester, Dartmouth , Albert Einstein, Hofstra
Thinking of taking off UCLA and UCSD from the list due to high IS bias so they'll probably be expecting killer stats.. Thinking of applying to Dartmouth but I heard they have a preference for their own UGs and nontrads?
"Safety" Schools (11/21): USF-Morsani, U of Cinncinati, Miami U, Indiana U, MC Wisconsin, Wake Forest, Tufts, BU, Jacobs School of Medicine at Buffalo (have family connect), Virginia Tech, Wayne State, SUNY Downstate, EVMS, U of central Florida, Tulane, Georgetown, George Washington, Temple, Drexel, Thomas Jefferson, VCU,
Should I apply to more of the low yield schools (ie. Georgetown, Drexel, etc)/?
cGPA: 3.95
sGPA: 3.95
MCAT: 515 (130/126/131/128)
Research: toxicology lab for 150 hours for 6 months, 1 year at a biology lab working full-time during the summer and doing thesis during the year (1000 hours) presented one poster at a student conference at my university, 200 hours over 6 months at a genetics lab (still ongoing + possible pub in the process although this wont happen before july), 1 year at a cancer lab (1000 hours)
Clinical Volunteering: 400 hours volunteering in a rural hospital over 4 years, 300 hours volunteering in a cardiology clinic over 1.5 years
Physician Shadowing: 60 hours with 1 doctor (should I diversify??)
Non-clinical Volunteering: volunteering at a homeless shelter for 300 hours over 2 years, volunteering with at-risk youth for 300 hours, tutoring for 80 hours
Extracurricular Activities: intramural sports, running Employment History: 2 years as an intramural ref (150 hours), 2 summers as a research assistant (including above)
Immediate family members in medicine? n
Specialty of interest: surgery but who really knows
Graduate Degrees: n
Interest in rural health: n
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