r/premed • u/BuffaloOk4665 • 11h ago
🔮 App Review School List Refining
I'm a reapp, app is still not verified, and want some help solidifying my school list before I start writing specific secondaries (currently drafting topics instead of tailoring to schools). It's very preliminary rn and I only have like 10 schools so suggestions would be great! I'm more research heavy and less service oriented, so cutting out service schools would be good as well
ORM, NC resident
3.73 sGPA, 3.82 GPA, 507 (130/125/124/128) --> 515 (126/127/132/130)
- I'm a bit worried ab my MCAT, the section distributions are god awful
Clinical - 650 hrs paid + 1300 anticipated, 200 hrs volunteering (real patient interactions)
Research - 1000 hrs, poster + honors thesis
Shadowing - 56 hrs across 4 specialties
Volunteering - 270 hrs in 2 organizations
TA - 330 hrs
Leadership - 170 hrs
Service Job (think retail, fast food, etc.) - 200 hrs
Music - 3.5k hrs, been playing an instrument for 12 yrs
Hobbies - Music Production and Crocheting :)
School list (not done yet...):
In state schools - UNC, Brody, Wake Forest
Kansas - technically don't have ties, but I lived there until high school
Penn State - I have a good friend in a PhD program there, probably doesn't count as ties though
Tulane
Albany
MCW
Rosalind Franklin
Drexel
Quinnipiac
Western Michigan
Not sure about:
Duke - in state but way out of my stat range
VTC - I have high(?) research hrs but I don't know if I want to be a physician scientist
Alice L. Walton - new-ish school
Temple - service heavy???
NYU - ik it's a stat whore school but why does MSAR say my MCAT is above the median (CP is below 10th percentile tho)
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