Where to start finding schools?

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My friend pointed me here to help in deciding schools to apply to, but I'm not really sure where to begin with that. Any assistance on that front, or schools you suggest I apply to, would be great!

I'm a New England native, and would kinda like to stay within NE/NY, but I'm definitely open to going further. Current 3.86 GPA, 519 MCAT. Weakest areas are definitely in shadowing experience (~50 hours) and in my letters, which I don't feel will be strong.

 

[Goro]

My friend pointed me here to help in deciding schools to apply to, but I'm not really sure where to begin with that. Any assistance on that front, or schools you suggest I apply to, would be great!

I'm a New England native, and would kinda like to stay within NE/NY, but I'm definitely open to going further. Current 3.86 GPA, 519 MCAT. Weakest areas are definitely in shadowing experience (~50 hours) and in my letters, which I don't feel will be strong.

How's this?
Harvard
Yale
BU
Hofstra
The Manhattan Titans
Einstein
Tufts
DARTMOUTH
U PENN
JHU
Rochester
U VM
U VA
Pitt
Duke
EMORY
CASE
U miami
UCF
OH State
U MI

 

[ciestar]

50 hours is perfectly fine for shadowing.

Do you have clinical experience? Research?

 

[Lucca]

Buy the MSAR. If geography is your number 1 priority, look up schools in the NE area first and then start considering other places to round out your list. Include your state schools if you’re in NY.

With your stats you should be competitive everywhere, just make sure to not apply to only the top schools because that’s pretty risky.

 

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Buy the MSAR. If geography is your number 1 priority, look up schools in the NE area first and then start considering other places to round out your list. Include your state schools if you’re in NY.

With your stats you should be competitive everywhere, just make sure to not apply to only the top schools because that’s pretty risky.

Alright, MSAR is purchased. Don't really care about geography, but NE would be easier to adjust to, as well as cheaper. Got ~20 schools around the country from MSAR giving a decent range on both GPA and MCAT. Threw in some of the big names for ****s and giggles (I didn't realize Hopkins was THAT good), threw in the SUNY schools and Tufts (I'm from Maine, and they have a program with Maine Med). Now to narrow it down from ~30! I'll probably kill the ones across the country, then start removing the upper outliers. Any ideas of how to narrow down past that?


Thanks for all the help guys!

 

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From the MSAR, I've put together what I feel is a decent list, though any suggestions or other ideas would be great!

Dartmouth
SUNY Upstate
SUNY Downstate
Tufts
U of Rochester
U of Colorado
Hofstra
Ohio State
USC
USF
U of Michigan
Mount Sinai
Stanford

First 5 I'm pretty comfortably 75th percentile for both MCAT and GPA, next 5 comfortable between 50 and 75, and next 3 hovering around 50th percentile, which will be a bit of a reach.