u/ForAllTheFrogs

Hi! Could really use some help with my school list and just looking for opinions, thank you!

MCAT:521 (132,129,130,130)

cGPA:3.70- strong upward trend, just poor freshman year with Cs in Gen Chem 1/2.

sGPA:3.63

URM KS resident

TX undergrad, no gap year planned.

Clinical: 500+ scribing in cardiac EP and primary care, 36 hours shadowing

Volunteering: 250 hours volunteering Crisis Text Line, 40 hours community based club.

Research: 600 hours in immunotoxicology. No pubs, no posters as of yet.

Leadership: Exec position in service club, on Sustainability council for the school administration. Neuroscience TA, upcoming physiology TA.

Baseline:

• University of Kansas School of Medicine
• University of Nebraska Medical Center
• University of Missouri School of Medicine
• Eastern Virginia Medical School
• Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
• LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine - have serious ties

Target:

• University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
• University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
• University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
• University of Florida College of Medicine
• Emory University School of Medicine
• Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
• Ohio State University College of Medicine
• University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
• University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
• McGovern Medical School
• Baylor College of Medicine
• Dartmouth
• Wake Forest

Reach:

• University of Virginia School of Medicine
• Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• University of Michigan Medical School
• Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
• University of North Carolina School of Medicine
• The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Have family ties in the north-east.

Please feel free to dismantle this entire thing honestly, just need to know what to keep, what to delete, and what to add/change. Thank you all!