WAMC/ School List Help???

[Goofy Goober]

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1. cGPA and sGPA: 3.92 and 3.89
2. MCAT: 521 (129/129/132/131)
3. State of residence: Illinois
4. Ethnicity/ race: White male
5. Undergraduate institution: Small, rural, private liberal arts college
6. Clinical experience: Volunteer firefighter (3 years and 300 hours) EMT-B/ ED tech (1 year and 800 hours)
7. Research experience and productivity: Radical chemistry research at home institution during school year and summer (1.5 years and 1000 hours) Presented at ACS national conference and working on manuscript this summer.
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: ED through job and primary care projected this summer.
9. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): TA (6 months and 100 hours). Collegiate athlete for tennis (2 years and many hours) Crew leader for field labor at Bayer crop science (4 years and 2000 hours) Prehealth Society President (1 year as president and 2 as member)
10. Interests: specializing in a field with clinical research possibilities. Very interested in cleveland clinic lerner college of medicine

I'd like some help forming a school list. I'm not too sure where to start or what would be considered a target school for me.

 

[Goofy Goober]

@Goro @Faha @LizzyM
Any advice?

 

[Banco]

You have a very strong application. Just as a suggestion I wouldn't categorize firefighter as clinical, but EMT/ED tech certainly is.

Start your list with all of your in state schools from Illinois. Then expand based on location/stats. Apply to 20-30 schools. Here are some suggestions:


Must apply: UIC, Loyola, Northwestern, UChicago, RFU, Rush

Reaches(3-5): Harvard, Hopkins, NYU, Penn, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Duke, UCSF, UCLA

Targets (7-10): Case Western, WashU, Pitt, Sinai, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Emory, OSU, Wisconsin, Michigan, UVa, USC, Mayo

Mid-tiers(3-5): Einstein, Rochester, Cincinnati, BU, Miami, Jefferson, Stony Brook, Iowa

Safeties (2-3): Hofstra, MCW, SLU, Creighton...many others

 

[Faha]

@Goro @Faha @LizzyM
Any advice?

I suggest these schools with your stats:
UIC
Southern Illinois
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
Northwestern
U Chicago
Iowa
Western Michigan
U Michigan
Washington University
Case Western
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Jefferson
Rochester
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
NYU
Tufts
Dartmouth
Yale
U Virginia
Duke
Vanderbilt
Miami
USF Morsani
Tulane
Mayo (both schools)
USC Keck
Kaiser

 

[LizzyM]

Any where you want.
Rush will love the community service.
Southern Illinois is not a good choice unless you live south of I-80.
You are likely to have many offers so choose the schools that seem like a good fit on paper and that you'd be willing to attend if it were your only offer. (Contradictory, I know, but it makes sense to me.)