MD WAMC & Schools to Apply to

[mellie93]

So I am applying this year and I know I have about a 50% chance of getting into med school. I do want to share my list of schools and get some feedback. I'd like to cut out 7 schools...but I'm afraid I'm cutting out schools I could potentially get into and it's worrying me.

Stats/Info:
Middle-eastern (White)
Graduated from UVA
Major: Business
cGPA: 3.62, sGPA: 3.55
MCAT: 1st attempt 27 (9/8/10), 2nd attempt 30 (12/8/10)
Virginia Residency
Clinical Shadowing: 25 hours Pediatrics, 12 hours GI, 50 Hours Plastic
Clinical Volunteering: 50 hours UVA hospital, 50 hours Free Clinic, 100 hours hospital in foreign country
Nonclinical Volunteering/experience: Mentorship program, Leadership experience in Club

School List:

Reach:
Tufts
UVA
UCSD
BU
USC (Southern California)
UCLA
Wake Forest
(I know a lot of CA schools but parents are insistent on applying.)

Hopeful:
Rosalind Franklin
VCU
EVMS
Rush
Colorado
VT
USF
UM
Drexel
NYMC
GWU
Tulane
St. Louis University
Penn State
Georgetown
Cooper Rowan
Temple
Albany
TCMC
Oakland

Competitive:
University of Missouri-Kansas
Marshall University
UWB
USC-Greenville
Quinnipiac

Let me know what you think...what to cut out, what to add. And any other general thoughts.

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[gyngyn]

The CA schools are not even a long shot. Tell your parents to have a big night on the town instead.
And tell them that writing the secondaries would seriously take an unnecessary toll!

UMKC's OOS matriculants are members of their special programs.

 

[625233]

Yeah, you don't even meet the 5th percentile for UCLA/USC/UCSD

 

[Faha]

You could delete the many of the state public schools where you are not a resident-USC-Greenville, Colorado, Missouri-Kansas, Cooper and also all the CA schools.
You could add:
Western Michigan
Jefferson
Creighton