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Hi everyone! I just submitted my primary today to 24 schools, but am worried that my list is too top-heavy. I'd like to add a few more schools so any advice regarding that and my chances to these in general would be appreciated!

Also, my top priority is staying in CA but I want to stick with MD so I don't know if I should also apply to WesternU (DO).

1. GPA: 3.93 cGPA and 3.89 sGPA as a STEM major + humanities minor graduating in 3 years
2. MCAT: 517 (129/130/127/131)
3. State of residence: CA
4. Ethnicity and/or race: White
5. UG: Top 25
6. Clinical experience: ~700 hrs (includes hospital + other clinical volunteering)
7. Research: ~1800 hrs (2.5 years), multiple published abstracts/posters [some of which won awards] + couple of papers, a few currently submitted or awaiting submission; no first author work yet though, will be starting independent project during gap year
8. Shadowing: ~300 hrs by matriculation time (the large majority of this is being done during gap year through a job)
9. Non-clinical volunteering: ~1000 hrs (very large focus on serving the underserved/homeless/etc.; on the exec. board of one of these orgs)
10. Other extracurricular activities: leadership roles in a couple of honor societies; membership in a couple of other clubs
11. Relevant honors or awards: graduating Summa Cum Laude + Phi Beta Kappa + Honors; entered UG with the top scholarship awarded to freshman admits; Dean's List every quarter; about $20K in scholarships; a few other misc. awards
12. LORs: amazing non-science letter; 2 very generic science letters; good letters from PI and from a MD who I did research with
13. Work Experience: A LOT! part-time tutoring/consulting/proctoring work for 3 years, grading work for 1.5 years, notetaker for 1 year, unpaid TA-ing gig for a few months, unpaid internship for 3 summers
14. Misc.: GAP YEAR => will be working full-time as a front+back medical office receptionist [will get some shadowing/chaperoning hrs during this] while continuing my tutoring/consulting/proctoring work, some hospital volunteering, and research; will also be working on some random, miscellaneous projects throughout the year as well
15. Misc.: HIGH SCHOOL => I know that we are generally not supposed to include things from high school, but I was involved in an activity related to humanitarian activism throughout HS (in which I had a large leadership role) which was both extremely significant to me and pretty unique -- and which had a huge role in influencing my professional goals -- so I definitely want to include it in my app..

School List:

USC Keck
UCSF
UCLA
UCLA/Drew
UC Irvine
UCSD
UC Davis
UC Riverside
Stanford
Loma Linda
CUSM
U of Arizona
U of Arizona - Phoenix
Mayo - Arizona
Oregon
UNLV
U of Miami Miller
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Icahn
Georgetown




Thanks!

 

[gyngyn]

Where is your list?

 

[Flipper19]

Where is your list?

Whoops, sorry about that! Just edited it!

 

[gyngyn]

Are you Adventist?
Do you have a validated commitment to the IE?
A member of one of OHSU's mission groups?
Strong ties to Nevada?

You need more OOS targets like NW, BU, Emory, Case...

 

[Faha]

Add a few more schools such as:
Boston University
Hofstra
Einstein
Duke
Cincinnati
Tulane

 

[Goro]

Hi everyone! I just submitted my primary today to 24 schools, but am worried that my list is too top-heavy. I'd like to add a few more schools so any advice regarding that and my chances to these in general would be appreciated!

Also, my top priority is staying in CA but I want to stick with MD so I don't know if I should also apply to WesternU (DO).

1. GPA: 3.93 cGPA and 3.89 sGPA as a STEM major + humanities minor graduating in 3 years
2. MCAT: 517 (129/130/127/131)
3. State of residence: CA
4. Ethnicity and/or race: White
5. UG: Top 25
6. Clinical experience: ~700 hrs (includes hospital + other clinical volunteering)
7. Research: ~1800 hrs (2.5 years), multiple published abstracts/posters [some of which won awards] + couple of papers, a few currently submitted or awaiting submission; no first author work yet though, will be starting independent project during gap year
8. Shadowing: ~300 hrs by matriculation time (the large majority of this is being done during gap year through a job)
9. Non-clinical volunteering: ~1000 hrs (very large focus on serving the underserved/homeless/etc.; on the exec. board of one of these orgs)
10. Other extracurricular activities: leadership roles in a couple of honor societies; membership in a couple of other clubs
11. Relevant honors or awards: graduating Summa Cum Laude + Phi Beta Kappa + Honors; entered UG with the top scholarship awarded to freshman admits; Dean's List every quarter; about $20K in scholarships; a few other misc. awards
12. LORs: amazing non-science letter; 2 very generic science letters; good letters from PI and from a MD who I did research with
13. Work Experience: A LOT! part-time tutoring/consulting/proctoring work for 3 years, grading work for 1.5 years, notetaker for 1 year, unpaid TA-ing gig for a few months, unpaid internship for 3 summers
14. Misc.: GAP YEAR => will be working full-time as a front+back medical office receptionist [will get some shadowing/chaperoning hrs during this] while continuing my tutoring/consulting/proctoring work, some hospital volunteering, and research; will also be working on some random, miscellaneous projects throughout the year as well
15. Misc.: HIGH SCHOOL => I know that we are generally not supposed to include things from high school, but I was involved in an activity related to humanitarian activism throughout HS (in which I had a large leadership role) which was both extremely significant to me and pretty unique -- and which had a huge role in influencing my professional goals -- so I definitely want to include it in my app..

School List:

USC Keck
UCSF
UCLA
UCLA/Drew
UC Irvine
UCSD
UC Davis
UC Riverside
Stanford
Loma Linda
CUSM
U of Arizona
U of Arizona - Phoenix
Mayo - Arizona
Oregon
UNLV
U of Miami Miller
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Icahn
Georgetown




Thanks!

I suggest:
NYU
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
Northwestern
U Chicago
U Penn
Columbia
Duke
Harvard
Sinai
Cornell
Stanford
U MI
U VA
BU
Case
Hofstra
Mayo
Ohio State
Pitt
U Cincy
USC/Keck
USF Morsani
ALL UCs but UCRonly IF you’re from the Inland Empire
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
Emory
Rochester
U IA
Miami
Western MI
Jefferson
U VM