Would really appreciate some help picking out schools

[sawneyrathman]

Brief summary of myself:

20yo caucasian male (US/Canada dual citizen)
3.85 gpa (had a 3.4 my first semester but have been 4.0 for two years now)
518 MCAT
Biology BS, Chemistry and Art History Minors

2+ years doing medical research (asthma research lab). I have some presentations and posters but nothing beyond the state level. I got a semi-prestigious research fellowship from my school last summer and this summer I have an internship at the NIH. 2nd author on a paper in a upper/mid tier journal (I think AJP qualifies as such).

For clinical experience, I volunteer at a hospice over holiday break (~75 hours total so far), had a diagnostic medicine internship at a regional medical center (200 hours) and have shadowed a mix of different physicians (50 hours)

As far as nonclinical activities, I'm a big brother big sister community mentor, I have been assisting in a language teaching program ESL refugees for 1.5 years (had to take this semester off but will resume), was a reading buddy at a school in a low ses area for 1 year, and have been a teaching assistant for the chemistry department at my school. I've been a member of a pre-med club for 2 years (doesn't mean much I think). Also am an Eagle Scout.


My school list right now is as follows:
UNC (in-state)
Eastern Carolina
Wake Forest
Duke
Vanderbilt
Emory
University of Virginia
VCU
ETSU
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Temple
George Washington
Tufts

I know I need a bigger list and am not really sure where to go from what I have right now. Also I am concerned that my lack of leadership will keep me from many schools on my list. Would appreciate any input I can receive, thanks!

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[Faha]

You have a good list of schools already. You could add Einstein, Mount Sinai, Hofstra, Drexel, Temple, Jefferson.

 

[sawneyrathman]

Are there any that I should take off that I have no shot at? (looking @ vandy, duke, dartmouth)

 

[Faha]

Are there any that I should take off that I have no shot at? (looking @ vandy, duke, dartmouth)

No. You could receive interviews at any of the schools on your list.

 

[Goro]

Brief summary of myself:

20yo caucasian male (US/Canada dual citizen)
3.85 gpa (had a 3.4 my first semester but have been 4.0 for two years now)
518 MCAT
Biology BS, Chemistry and Art History Minors

2+ years doing medical research (asthma research lab). I have some presentations and posters but nothing beyond the state level. I got a semi-prestigious research fellowship from my school last summer and this summer I have an internship at the NIH. 2nd author on a paper in a upper/mid tier journal (I think AJP qualifies as such).

For clinical experience, I volunteer at a hospice over holiday break (~75 hours total so far), had a diagnostic medicine internship at a regional medical center (200 hours) and have shadowed a mix of different physicians (50 hours)

As far as nonclinical activities, I'm a big brother big sister community mentor, I have been assisting in a language teaching program ESL refugees for 1.5 years (had to take this semester off but will resume), was a reading buddy at a school in a low ses area for 1 year, and have been a teaching assistant for the chemistry department at my school. I've been a member of a pre-med club for 2 years (doesn't mean much I think). Also am an Eagle Scout.


My school list right now is as follows:
UNC (in-state)
Eastern Carolina
Wake Forest
Duke
Vanderbilt
Emory
University of Virginia
VCU
ETSU
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Temple
George Washington
Tufts

I know I need a bigger list and am not really sure where to go from what I have right now. Also I am concerned that my lack of leadership will keep me from many schools on my list. Would appreciate any input I can receive, thanks!

I suggest:

Wash U

U Chicago

NYU

U Penn

Vanderbilt

Columbia
Sinai
Cornell

Northwestern


Case

Harvard

Yale

Stanford

JHU

BU

U VA

U MI

U AZ
U VM

U WI
U Cincy

Ohio State

U IA
UCSF

UCLA (only for CA residents), UCSD, UCI, UCR (IF you’re from the Inland Empire)
Miami
Tulane
Albert Einstein

Emory
USC/Keck
Mayo

Rochester

Dartmouth
Duke

Pitt
Hofstra

Your state school

 

[sawneyrathman]

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

 

[Reader88]

ETSU takes very, very few OOS applicants so it's probably not worth applying

 

[813459]

I just want to say that your stats/EC look really good. Super jealous right now! But you deserve to be interviewed and accepted in the schools you have chosen. Good luck on your cycle!

 

[sawneyrathman]

I just want to say that your stats/EC look really good. Super jealous right now! But you deserve to be interviewed and accepted in the schools you have chosen. Good luck on your cycle!

Thanks for the encouragement! Good luck to you as well!!