Medical What schools should I apply to as a reapplicant?

[Goro]

Hi all,

I'm a reapplicant this upcoming cycle and would love some advice on my school list. Thank you so much in advance! I applied this past cycle (2019-2020), and only received one interview that turned into a waitlist.

Background info:

Here's some of my general stats, as well as my school list
Undergrad: Top Liberal Arts
cGPA, sGPA: 3.75, 3.72
MCAT: 517

On this cycle's primary app:
Clinical Volunteering: Service Trip (~60 hours)
Non-Clinical Volunteering: Community Leader/Mentor (~1000 hours)
Leadership: Leadership program (~20 hrs)
Shadowing: 3 different Physicians (~200 hrs)
Research: Basic Science Lab (~2000 hrs - summer/gap year job), Undergraduate Basic Science Lab (~800 hrs), Summer Basic Science Lab (~200), Clinical Lab (~200 hrs)
- two abstracts, no papers
Other: Varsity Athlete
Gap Year: Continued Basic Lab job, picked up some volunteering

What I have improved:
Clinical Volunteering: ER volunteer (~100 hrs by submission), Hospice Volunteer (~50 hrs by submission)
Non-Clinical Volunteering: Homeless Shelter (~150 hrs), Sports Mentor (~250 hrs by submission), Text Hotline (25 hrs by submission)
Research: part-time public health-related research (first author, paper submitted)

School List for the last cycle:
GW, Yale, Michigan, Wake, Kaiser, Tufts, Columbia, USC, Georgetown, Cornell, Emory, Riverside, Mount Sinai, Dartmouth, UMass, Duke, Case Western, Stanford, Oregon, Irvine, UCSD, Brown, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UCSF, Davis, UCLA, Washington, Pitt, BU

Tentative School List for this cycle:
Not a Reapplicant - Einstien, Cinncinati, Drexel, Harvard, Jefferson, JHU, Loma Linda, Mayo, NYMC, NYU, NYU Lagone, Penn, Rush, Rutgers, SUNY, Temple, Tulane, Uchicago, UConn, VCU, WashU
Reapplicant - Brown, BU, Case, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, GW, Sinai, Irvine, Keck, Michigan, Northwestern, Pitt, Tufts, UCLA, UCSF, UCSD, Vanderbilt, Wake

Of you list, I suggest:

Einstien, Cinncinati, Drexel, Harvard, Jefferson, JHU, Mayo, NYU, NYU Lagone, Temple, Tulane, Uchicago, WashU
BU, Case, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Sinai, Irvine, Keck, Michigan, Northwestern, Pitt, Tufts, UCLA, UCSF, UCSD, Vanderbilt, Wake

ADD: your state schools, U IA, Western MI, Hofstra,Einstein, U VM, SLU, U CO, U WI, Oh State, U Cincy, Keck, Stanford

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[Mr.Smile12]

I think your clinical hours were sub-par compared to others in the various school applicant pools in your initial cycle. You didn't say where you were waitlisted, but let's see how the cycle goes.

 

[Goro]

Thank you so much for your advice Goro! My state of residence is CA. I applied to all of my state schools this cycle, but did not know if it was worth to apply to all of them again considering they are very competitive regardless.

Skip UCR if you're not from that area .

ADD Kaiser and CalU MED