I've been lurking on this forum as a guest for a while, and while taking a break from secondary essays, thought I'd get your opinion on some of my schools, based on my statistics. I'm a Florida resident.
BCPM: 3.77
AO: 3.92
Overall: 3.85
MCAT: 33 (Physical: 10, Bio: 10, Verbal: 13)
And my (extensive) list of schools:
I feel that I have a lot of reaches, maybe even mostly reaches. I think some are borderline between reach and target, and then there are a couple back-ups (hopefully). I'm trying to decide whether it is worth the money and time to submit my secondaries to some of the clear reaches. Already second guessing JHU, Harvard, and Duke. I doubt I will write any of those. Where do you guys feel are my best chances?
I've submitted 5 secondary apps so far, so I feel alright about my timing. Need to get cooking though.
I'm aware that I need more activities, there are others that weren't worth listing, but I'll be working on that during my gap year. I have the opportunity to continue many of my listed activities, should I do that to show commitment, or diversify my activities a little more?
BCPM: 3.77
AO: 3.92
Overall: 3.85
MCAT: 33 (Physical: 10, Bio: 10, Verbal: 13)
- Worked in an orthopaedic office for a summer: 350 hours
- Two different teacher assistant positions: 60 and 100 hours each, the second was over 4 semesters
- Camp counselor for chronically ill children: 48 hours
- Shadowing (ER): 80 hours, great physician, wrote a LOR
- Research: 80 hours, pretty much nothing, entered length of stay data, trying to get something more useful in my gap year
And my (extensive) list of schools:
- Boston University School of Medicine
- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Duke University School of Medicine
- Florida State University
- Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- The University of Miami School of Medicine
- USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Science
- University of Colorado School of Medicine
- University of Florida
- University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
I feel that I have a lot of reaches, maybe even mostly reaches. I think some are borderline between reach and target, and then there are a couple back-ups (hopefully). I'm trying to decide whether it is worth the money and time to submit my secondaries to some of the clear reaches. Already second guessing JHU, Harvard, and Duke. I doubt I will write any of those. Where do you guys feel are my best chances?
I've submitted 5 secondary apps so far, so I feel alright about my timing. Need to get cooking though.
I'm aware that I need more activities, there are others that weren't worth listing, but I'll be working on that during my gap year. I have the opportunity to continue many of my listed activities, should I do that to show commitment, or diversify my activities a little more?