MD Is having a speech impediment an "experience" to write about?

June 3, 2013, 10:02 am

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Hey guys,

I'm just wondering if I should write something about my speech impediment as one of the 15 possible experiences on the AMCAS application. I've had a studder my whole life, it was pretty bad when I was younger, went to lots of speech therapy, and now it's hardly noticeable. I'm wondering if this would make schools wary of me being a good doctor (i.e. not being able to communicate effectively), or if it would seem like a good experience. Thanks.

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June 3, 2013, 11:41 am

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Hey SDN,

I'm creating this WAMC thread for a friend (and no, the "friend" is not me :laugh:). I've compiled this MD and DO list for him, and I'd love it if y'all could toss in your $0.02.

Thanks friends!


GPA - AMCAS; he attended "public ivy" and graduated last month

• Science: 3.67
• Non-Science: 3.61
• Cumulative: 3.65

MCAT - 33 (11PS, 9V, 13BS)

Activities
Medical:

• Patient Attendant U-M Hospital: fulltime, 2 summers*
• VA Hospital Volunteer: >300 hours*
• Adult Psychiatry Patient Attendant: ~250 hours
• Physician Shadowing: ~25 hours (1 ER doc, getting more this summer)
• CNA: 100 hours and counting (just started last month after graduation)

Research:

• 1 year in neurodegenerative diseases (no pubs)

Non-medical:

• Genetics Study Group Leader: >250 hours over multiple semesters*
• IM Sports: 4 years, 3 sports
• Genetics Study Group Course Leader (in charge of all study group leaders for the course)
• After School Tutor (Volunteer)
• Student Painters Internship: 1 summer
• Nightclub Doorstaff

He applied last cycle without any research and less volunteering. He received invites from Wayne St and CMU, but was waitlisted for both of them. He just got the CNA license in January, and he'll be a CNA this gap year with continued volunteering and shadowing. He's looking to stay in the midwest but is open to options across the country.

The list I've come up with (updated 6/3 14:46):
IS:

1. UMich (reach)
2. MSU – MD
3. CMU
4. Wayne St
5. WMU

Private Jesuits (>10 years of Catholic schooling; will be mentioned in secondaries):

1. Loyola
2. Creighton
3. SLU
4. GT (not GW, whoops)

Others:

1. CWRU (reach, but his entire family/he is from Cleveland until he moved)
2. Rush
3. Rosalind Franklin
4. MCW
5. USUHS
6. Tulane
7. TCMC
8. Drexel
9. Cincy
10. OSU

DOs:

1. MSU - DO
2. KCUMB (Kansas City)
3. OU-HCOM (Ohio)
4. CCOM (Chicago)
   
5. MU-COM (Marian)
6. DMU-COM (Des Moines)
7. ATSU-KCOM (Kirksville)

Thoughts? Too many DOs? Bad choices for DOs (I don't know much about them)? Too many safety and/or not enough reach schools?

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June 3, 2013, 12:25 pm

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Here is my current list of schools I plan to apply to. I realize there are quite a few here so if you have suggestions on which to cut that would be wonderful.
I'm a CA resident. 36 MCAT (12,12,12)
I was a volunteer EMT on campus for 3 yrs, and worked as an EMT on an ambulance part time 1yr
2 years in a lab with an honors thesis and published
Good EC's with lots of leadership positions. TAed twice

Current MD list of schools:
Albert Einstein
Boston University
UCLA
UCSD
UCSF
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
Drexel
George Washington
Georgetown
Thomas Jefferson
Johns Hopkins
USC
Mayo
Mount Sinai
New York Medical College
NYU
Northwestern (I’m thinking of cutting this one)
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Stanford
Temple
University of Illinois at Chicago

Thank you

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June 3, 2013, 1:11 pm

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I'm 24 (white male), and 2 years out from a degree with honors in music performance. During my last year of school I had a change of heart and decided to pursue medicine, with some additional post-bac work and volunteering/paid clinical research.

3.6 gpa - notably 2 B-'s and a single C+ my freshman and sophomore year, due to some overly ambitious scheduling on my part.

EC's-
- I'm a successful jazz musician: performed as a duo/trio with world famous players, and won an international solo competition. I also compose and perform on a variety of other instruments.
- I was a collegiate fencer and played rugby (1 year - too hard on the hands)
- 300+ hours as a volunteer clinical research assistant in a Lv 1 trauma center
- 80+ hours shadowing hours with neurosurgeons, plastics, pain/anesthesia, and ortho
- Volunteer first aid for state special olympics
- Work full time as a clinical research coordinator at a large state medical school, where I do everything from write manuscripts, to recruit patients, and help design studies. I have 3 publications in major orthopaedics journals upcoming as a 2nd/3rd author, many more in the works.

LORs -
- music professor/music research advisor
- ochem professor
- Chairman of neurosurgery at my university
- orthopaedics program director

What are my MD chances? Where would be good places to apply?

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June 3, 2013, 1:23 pm

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Hello everyone. I'm planning on submitting my application mid June. I'm a UCSD student (Asian Male) majoring in Biochemistry/Chemistry with a minor in Psychology.

MCAT: 14BS, 12PS, 9VR, Writing Q

Activities
3.5yrs on campus fraternity with many positions in philanthropy/academics/alumni engagement (over 10 separate philanthropy projects participated in as annual philanthropy events)
3 years on campus work in food/customer service as student lead
3 years in leadership in student org for college spirit
2 years internship for childhood asthma research study involving shadowing and patient contact
2 years as president for community service student org
1 year as teaching assistant for chemistry department
1 year in leadership on greek life council
a few random awards/certifications here and there

Hobbies: Gym, building gundam models (random huh). Physical health is very important to me

Schools applying to:
Albany MC*
Baylor*
Case Western
Rosalind Franklin Chicago
Columbia
Creighton
Drexel
Duke
Geisel?
Gerogetown
Hofstra*
Jefferson MC?
USC Keck*
LomaLinda
Loyola University Stritch*
Mayo Med
New York MC*
NYU
Northwestern
Penn State
Stanford*
Temple
Tufts
UC Davis/SD/SF/Irvine/LA*
Vanderbilt
Cornell

Planning to pursue a future in primary care
Is this selection of schools too large? What should I focus more on?

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June 3, 2013, 1:39 pm

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Hi everyone, I am new to this forum, but I have been lurking on here for a while. I was just wondering what my chances are. I have not taken the mcat yet, but I am averaging around a 25 and I am taking it in 2 weeks. 3.71 cumulative and 3.68 science gpa Asian background.

I have strong EC:
EMT volunteer- 125 hrs
Hospital volunteer- 75 hrs
Shadow MD: 50 hrs
Shadow DO: 25 hrs
Volunteer at cancer house- 125 hrs
and I just got a job as a lab assistant

I have a LOR from both MD and DO

I was just wondering what my chances are of getting in to a DO program. Should I even bother applying to an MD school? What would be the minimum to get on the MCAT if I wanted to apply MD?

School list MD:
Florida State Univ
Indiana Univ
Loyola
Rosalind Frankin
Rush
Southern Illinois
UIC

School list DO:
KCOM
Cambell
CCOM
Kansas City COM
Lake Erie COM
Marian
MSU
NYCOM
Touro CA
Pikesville

Are there any schools I should add/remove? I appreciate all the help! Good luck to everyone else in this cycle

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June 3, 2013, 2:11 pm

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I mainly need help with my list of schools. I've posted this thread twice before, and both times I got significant advice on how to improve my list of schools. Just curious as to how my list looks now after I've taken more realistic MCAT/GPA averages and OoS matriculation rates into consideration.

Background
White male NY resident, double major in forensic biology and premedical biology with a minor in chemistry. My school (University of New Haven) is known for its forensic science program, if that at all helps.

Practice test breakdowns
I got a 31 on AAMC's practice MCAT number 7; 11-9-11.
I got a 34 on AAMC's practice MCAT number 10; 13-9-12.

GPA by semester
-Fall 2010: 3.39 (lowest grades: B- in genetics and general chemistry I lab)
-Spring 2011: 3.38 (lowest grade: C+ in general chemistry II lab)
-Fall 2011: 3.91 (lowest grade: B+ in organic chemistry I lab)
-Spring 2012: 3.69 (lowest grades: B+ in organic chemistry II lab and physics II)
-Fall 2012: 3.88 (lowest grades: A- in forensic biology and creative writing)
-Spring 2013: 4.00

Is the upward trend significant enough to be considered by AdComs?

A few key EC's
-TA for the chemistry department for two semesters (since Fall 2012)
-Worked 400-ish hours over the Summer of 2011 at the emergency department of a local hospital with more responsibilities than a volunteer would have (can perform CPR on a patient if necessary, can transport more kinds of patients/samples, etc.)
-Volunteered 160+ hours over the Summer of 2012 in the emergency department of the very same local hospital (note: reason I didn't work for the second year is because the program was cut)
-This Summer, I will be doing clinical research for 16 hours a week at a different hospital than the one I was at for the past two years.
-Took jiu jitsu for twelve years, up until I left for undergrad. By the end, I had earned a second degree black belt. I still practice it outside of the dojo (both alone and with others), and it was honestly a defining experience for me (I wrote a bit about it in my personal statement).

I have a few others, but I'm unsure how relevant they'd be to AdComs. (i.e. I was on eboard for a school club for three semesters, but it wasn't at all an academic club even though it is a USGA recognized and funded club.)

Schools
*Note: The rankings are purely my opinion; feel free to put in your own two cents about it.
-----(Safer-moderate)-----(12)
Eastern Virginia
Albany
Drexel
Rosalind Franklin
Georgetown
Downstate
Buffalo
Wright State University
Stony Brook
Virginia Commonwealth
Upstate
Howard
-----(Moderate)-----(6)
Brown
West Virginia
NY Medical
Jefferson
Mount Sinai
Penn State
-----(Reach)-----(4)
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
Yale
University of Pennsylvania
-----(?)-----(1)
Quinnipiac
-----(Total)-----(23)

Again, thanks everyone for the help!

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June 4, 2013, 2:52 am

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Hi everyone,

I am primarily interested in applying to California D.O. schools (Touro and Westernu) and would like some input :) I want to put as much information as possible so that you can better assist me.

I am a transfer student:
ccGPA > 3.8
UCSD gpa: 3.65 (biochemistry/cell biology major)

total sGPA: 3.75, total cGPA: 3.75
MCAT score: 29Q (10 PS, 8 V, 11 BS)

Currently in a 1 year master's program (thesis style) GPA: 3.7
Doing a master's thesis project (presently no pubs)

250 hours of ER and Gift shop volunteering at local community hospital (over 8 months)
1.5 years working at neuroscience lab
TA for 2 quarters and 1 summer session
shadowed 3 doctors (1 DO ortho, 1 MD ortho and 1 MD anesthesiologist about 50 hours total)
volunteered a semester in community service club at community college (nursing homes/hospice)
2 poster presentations
volunteered in outreach to high school students encouraging students to pursue higher education (1 quarter)
2 years leading music service at local fellowship church
2 quarters of intermural sports

I am concerned for my weak ECs involving community service, especially to the underserved. Western and Touro seem to emphasize this and it is even mentioned in their secondaries. I do have various experiences in community service but at WesternU's preview day the panel suggested that community service was extremely important (2000+ hours), which I absolutely do not have.

Any input on my chances and advice would greatly be appreciated. Thank you very much!

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June 4, 2013, 9:30 am

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What are my chances? Any suggestions for schools near Ohio (I am already for sure applying to all of the Ohio Schools -- MD and DO)?

My sGPA is 3.5 and cGPA is 3.7

My 1st MCAT was a 24 and 2nd MCAT was a 29 (11 PS 9 VR 9 BS).

I have 2 years hosp. volunteering and 50 hours shadowing.

I have over 2000 hours of other community service.

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June 4, 2013, 9:52 am

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Hi guys!

I'm a VA resident with a cGPA of 3.49 and sGPA between 3.5-3.6ish. Upward trend in grades (~3.19 first semester/year and ~3.8-3.9 my last semester/year). My MCAT score is 30 (10 on each section). It was my first MCAT, and I was planning on retaking it in July, but
haven't had the time to start studying all over again (I took my first MCATS in March of this year). After reading some threads here, I'm questioning if I really need to retake it. Any advice would be great help :-)

A little more about me: Born in the US, but grew up in a third world country (if that matters). My grades sucked my first year because I wasn't very focused (family problems- Dad started having serious health issues). I've shadowed doctors in hospitals, and at NIH while I'm working there as a research fellow. Done a lot research (3 publications currently in the works, 1 poster presentation). I also tutored kids/ other college students in college, and worked at a free clinic during the summers.

Here are the schools I plan on applying to:
1. Albany Medical College
2. Boston University School of Medicine
3. Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine
4. Creighton University School of Medicine
5. Drexel University College of Medicine
6. Eastern Virginia Medical School
7. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
8. George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
9. Georgetown University School of Medicine
10. Hofstra
11. Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
12. New York Medical College
13. Oakland University
13. Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
14. Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
15. Temple University School of Medicine
20. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
21. Tufts University School of Medicine
22. Tulane University School of Medicine
23. University of Virginia School of Medicine
24. Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
25. Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
26. Wake Forest School of Medicine

I'd like to know what you guys think my chances are at these schools, and if you think I need to add/remove schools. Also any input on whether I should retake MCAT in July would be great. I'm planning on sending out my application on June 10th. Thank you!!!

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June 4, 2013, 9:56 am

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June 4, 2013, 10:01 am

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My GPA is about a 3.57, sGPA is slightly lower, my MCAT is 33 and after my rewrite I hope to bring it up to 35-36.

Extra currics are pretty good - president of my departmental association (I've been on it for three years), about 2 years of research experience (but no pubs), lots of involvement in other clubs and model UN/public heath-y type stuff, taught an afterschool program for children with learning disabilities, went on an exchange to east asia to learn about health systems...No serious shadowing (it's hard in Canada), but I have volunteered in hospitals.

I don't even know where to start. I have a pretty compelling personal history/reason for wanting to become a doctor if that helps. Should I bother applying, and if so, where?

Thanks so much in advance!

Forgot to add that I plan to do a MPH too, so MD/MPH programs in the US are also something I'm looking into.

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June 4, 2013, 10:42 am

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hey guys. i have a 3.52 gpa cGPA with a 3.49 sGPA. I'm a chemistry major/math minor. I have around 200 hours volunteering. 600+ hours of research and I have around 200+ hours in community service. I have not taken MCATs yet. Diagnostic without studying puts me at a 23 right now and i have 2 months still to prepare. Do you guys think I could get into the NY (Mount Sinai, NYU etc.), NJ (UMDNJ), or Penn (Drexel) MD programs? Thank you guys again!

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Hi guys! I'm a rising senior from the University of Pennsylvania and I'm likely applying to med school this year although I may hold it off to take a gap year.

I started with a 2.85 sGPA freshman year (3.41 cGPA) and have since improved my scores. .

Born in the US, Asian American male. Here's my app:

College: University of Pennsylvania
Major: Cognitive Science
MCAT: 36
sGPA: 3.35
cGPA: 3.59

ECs:
100 hours volunteering
40 hours of shadowing
200 hours of research at a sleep and chronobiology lab
- EEG technician for said lab
100 hours of research at another psychology lab
300+ hours as part of a Chinese lion dancing club (w/ leadership) (no this is not Penn Lions)
Secretary of a fraternity
Summer internship during sophomore year for healthcare
Spent time overseas volunteering (medical purposes) for a developing country
and other summer jobs that I endured/hated/moderately liked/yaddayadda.

List:

MD:
UMDNJ
UMDNJ - RWJ
Penn State
Cooper (Rowan)
Temple
Drexel
Perelman (probably will not have a chance)
Georgetown
Tufts
USC Keck
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences

DO"
UMDNJ - Osteo
Philadelphia College of Osteo
Lake Erie College of Osteo

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June 4, 2013, 12:02 pm

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I apologize that this is my second posting, but my list has changed a lot and I would appreciate your opinions!!
I have a lot of research and clinical experience, but no publications, and I went to a top 10 school.

Here is my list:

Top Schools/Reaches:
1. Yale
2. Harvard
3. Columbia
4. Penn
5. Stanford
6. UChicago
7. Cornell

Target Schools:
8. Mt. Sinai
9. NYU
10. Emory
11. Vanderbilt
12. BU
13. Tufts
14. Northwestern

Safeties (although of course no med school is a safety):
15. Georgetown
16. Temple
17. Jefferson
18. Albert Einstein
19. state school

Im going to add one more.. thinking about WashU, Brown, Pitt, UMichigan... any opions?
Thank you for your help in advance!!

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June 4, 2013, 12:14 pm

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Hi SDN, I'm considering retaking the MCAT. Here are my practice test scores.

date - AAMC # - score
2/3/13 - 10 - 31(8/14/9)
3/17/13 - 9 - 34(11/11/12)
4/07/13 - 8 - 38 (12/13/13)
4/21/13 - 11 - 36 (11/13/12)

actual mcat 4/27/13 - 31(10/11/10)

I'm wondering if this test was a fluke. I was in the middle of finals and pretty stressed out, also the test center was way more distracting than I was prepared for and those headphones were too annoying to keep on. I wish I would have taken practice tests wearing them. There is a spot available june 20. I'm applying tmdsas as a post bac with (3.58 gpa, 3.92 sgpa) 4.0 gpa as a post bac.

I've already submitted my application. Is a retake worth it for me? Should I just apply early and hope for the best? Will a retake delay the processing of my application? What if I just don't indicate that I'm planning a retake? Will they go ahead and consider it and then later when I submit a new and presumably higher mcat will they take another look?

Any and all advice is appreciated,

Thanks, SDN!

MD & DO 3.39 cGPA, 3.18 sGPA, 40 MCAT, no research

June 4, 2013, 12:28 pm

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Will I get any MD love?

A little GPA breakdown:

3.39 cGPA with degrees in Philosophy and Literature from FL public institution
3.19 sGPA with three retakes
--Bio I: C-->B
--Stats: F-->A
--Calc I: D-->A
3.51 Postbac GPA
--First year, informal at state school, 13 credits, 2.31 GPA (D in 5-credit course really f-ed me)
--Second year, formal postbac, 32 credits, 4.0 GPA

A little about me:

--FL resident, 26 yo female, Caucasian
--80+ hours shadowing MD and DO (anesthesiologist, gyn, surgeon, ENT)
--300+ hours hospital volunteering (ICU, NICU, ER, Oncology)
--50 hours working in rural overseas medical clinic
--100+ hours other volunteering, notably SPCA
--Research/thesis in major
--Research and copy editing for medical textbooks, but no substantial science research or pubs.
--Very good LORs (postbac committee, English prof/thesis adviser, DO, two MDs)
--Worked full-time through undergrad and first year of postbac

MCAT:

13 bio, 13 phys, 14 verbal

List:

MD:
Emory
University of Florida
University of South Florida
Florida State
Louisville
Tulane
University of Tennessee
SUNY Downstate
Mt. Sinai
Albert Einstein
NYU
EVMS
NYMC
Stony Brook
Rochester
Pitt
Brown

DO:
PCOM--Georgia
Touro--NYC
Nova
Michigan State

I would REALLY love to be in Atlanta or NYC. Do you think I even have a shot at Emory/Mt. Sinai/etc with my GPA and lack of research?

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June 4, 2013, 12:44 pm

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Hello everyone,

I am a reapplicant for osteopathic schools. I was wondering of anyone can give me an idea of where I stand:

MCAT: 22 (I know its horrible, retaking in July)
sGPA: 3.37
cGPA: 3.42

DO Shadowing with volunteering/assisting in his clinic: 275 hours
Hospital volunteering: 60 hours (this was back in 2008)
Leadership: E-board of pre med club, MSA
Research in mol. bio: 2 years
Tutored introductory chemistry for 1.5 years
Bio lab assistant: 3 years
Non-medically related volunteering: 200 hours

My recommendations are done and received from: 2 bio professors, 1 math, 1 biochem, 2 nursing faculty, 1 from lab manager, 1 DO.

I messed up badly one semester, however there is an upward trend, got As in upper level bio and chem courses (biochem I and II, molecular bio, microbio). My last two semesters with a total of 8 courses: 7 As and 1 B+. I am retaking the MCAT for a better score. I am a reapplicant and applied extremely late last cycle (app wasn't done until January).

Thanks for the help!

MD Please help with my school list, 4.0/35, TX

June 4, 2013, 1:03 pm

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Hi, it me again.

I am a Chinese immigrant (the first generation); I got both BS and PhD degree Chinese colleges; I have been doing postdoctoral research in a U.S medical school for 6 years.

Basic credential:
2011-2013: community college, 77 credit hours;
2013: state university, 12 credit hours;
another 12 credit hours in progress;
with GPA=4.0;
MCAT: 35(PS14/VR8/BS/13);
(Neither AAMC nor TMDSAS will count my Chinese grades. Both of them are around 3.0, but I haven't got the final evaluation report.)

Clinical: I have shadowed a primary care physician for 60 hours; and I am expected to complete 200 hrs of volunteering in two hospitals;
Non-clinical: voluntary reviewers for scientific journals, 50 manuscripts/20 journals; part-time translators; 20 hrs of volunteering in a communication disorder center.

Research: more than ten years of research, with many publications, posters, conferences, presentations, patents

Mentoring graduate and undergraduate students for summer research;
Treasurer and vice-president of a club

I am a Texas resident and prefer to staying in Texas, even if I am lucky to get accepted by "high-tier" schools.

This is my list:

UT Southwestern Medical Center
UT Medical Branch at Galveston
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio
UT Health Science Center in Houston
Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center - Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at El Paso
Baylor College of Medicine

&

Columbia University College of P&S (It has the 3-year PhD-to-MD program, although I might not be eligible.)
Tulane University School of Medicine (It has the 3.5-year PhD-to-MD program.)

&

other schools (which means that, if I can get accepted by any TX school above, I will not go to interview or accept their offers.)

Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California
Standford University
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Boston University School of Medicine

This list is very preliminary. I have MSAR subscription, but really don't have time to do the research. Please help me to pick about 15 schools. I don't care about the ranking. Getting in is the only criteria. Any critique, suggestion or comment is welcome, Thank you very much!