Hi all, just looking for some advice about which schools I could add to my list. My main question is that my MCAT score is like bare minimum, and the SDN spreadsheet has a lot of schools I'd like to go to as hopeful since their average MCAT scores are ~32-33. However, my GPA is like a little above the averages, so I'm not sure how to compensate for the low than average MCAT vs higher than the school's average GPA
I applied last year but didn't get in anywhere. Stats were 3.84 cGPA, 3.72 sGPA, 26S MCAT (8/9/9). New MCAT: 30 (12/9/9)
Here are my stats:
- FL resident
- Musician: involved with a band throughout college, played shows around town, hope to finish our EP (4+ years)
- United States Tennis Association: competitive tennis league throughout college, have multiple awards as regional champion and state semi-finalist (4 years)
- EMT volunteering: this was with the EMS organization at university and through EMT training (410 hours)
- EMS President: for 2 years i served as president of the EMS organization at my school
- Church Worship Leader: 2.5 years served as one of the worship team leaders at my church
- Shadowing: neurosurgery, general surgery, oncology, pediatric neurology, pedatrics, and ENT surgery (total 350 hours)
- Academic awards: deans list all throughout college, presidential service award (completed over 300 service hours in a year; only 1 of 50 students to receive this award), summa cum laude, phi beta kappa
- Medical Service trips: went on two trips to another country where i volunteered at an HIV clinic/pharmacy the first time and the second time i led a group of club members to go teach first aid and hygiene to 400+ people (120 hours total)
- Tennis Instructor: paid to help teach children the basics of tennis (1.5 years)
- Teaching Assistant: orgo 2 and microbio TA for 1 year and 0.5 years, respectively
- Non-medical volunteering: arts in medicine program at the nearby hospital where i played music for patients (0.5 years) and kitchen assistant at the local homeless shelter (1.2 years)
- Research: 3.5 years done in biomedical sciences
- Poster Presentation: first author of a conference paper that i presented as a poster
- Publications: two journal publications
tried to be as brief as possible while giving decent information still! would definitely appreciate any and all help about my chances at like rank 20-40 schools?
current list:
- All FL schools
- Emory
- Dartmouth
-Tufts
- UVA
- Brown
thanks so much for your time!!!
I applied last year but didn't get in anywhere. Stats were 3.84 cGPA, 3.72 sGPA, 26S MCAT (8/9/9). New MCAT: 30 (12/9/9)
Here are my stats:
- FL resident
- Musician: involved with a band throughout college, played shows around town, hope to finish our EP (4+ years)
- United States Tennis Association: competitive tennis league throughout college, have multiple awards as regional champion and state semi-finalist (4 years)
- EMT volunteering: this was with the EMS organization at university and through EMT training (410 hours)
- EMS President: for 2 years i served as president of the EMS organization at my school
- Church Worship Leader: 2.5 years served as one of the worship team leaders at my church
- Shadowing: neurosurgery, general surgery, oncology, pediatric neurology, pedatrics, and ENT surgery (total 350 hours)
- Academic awards: deans list all throughout college, presidential service award (completed over 300 service hours in a year; only 1 of 50 students to receive this award), summa cum laude, phi beta kappa
- Medical Service trips: went on two trips to another country where i volunteered at an HIV clinic/pharmacy the first time and the second time i led a group of club members to go teach first aid and hygiene to 400+ people (120 hours total)
- Tennis Instructor: paid to help teach children the basics of tennis (1.5 years)
- Teaching Assistant: orgo 2 and microbio TA for 1 year and 0.5 years, respectively
- Non-medical volunteering: arts in medicine program at the nearby hospital where i played music for patients (0.5 years) and kitchen assistant at the local homeless shelter (1.2 years)
- Research: 3.5 years done in biomedical sciences
- Poster Presentation: first author of a conference paper that i presented as a poster
- Publications: two journal publications
tried to be as brief as possible while giving decent information still! would definitely appreciate any and all help about my chances at like rank 20-40 schools?
current list:
- All FL schools
- Emory
- Dartmouth
-Tufts
- UVA
- Brown
thanks so much for your time!!!