Any advice of schools I should apply to (for Cali Resident)

<p>I havent posted here in a while, but here to update I just received my mcat score today 31 Q (VR:10, PS:11, BS:10). It was a bit lower than what i expected, but i guess at least it was balanced. I am applying this cycle and getting ready to submit primaries soon (i know sorta late). I was hoping you guys could give me some advice on which range of schools i should apply to. Many Thanks.</p>

<p>My GPA for cum and sci has been 3.93
15 activities:
1. NSF-REU Internship in biotechnology and bioengineering
2. Physician Shadowing (3 doctors)
3. Emergency Department Volunteer (1 year)
4. National Research Conference
5. Barry M. Goldwater Scholar
6. Amgen Scholars Program
7. Senior Thesis
8. Outpatient Dialysis Center Volunteer (2 year)
9. Undergraduate Awards (grouped 5)
10. Working at a Startup Biotech company right now
11. Student Activism Leadership (started a club but it sorta failed, im not sure if i should include it)
12. Presentations/Posters (grouped 4 school presentations)
13. Hobbies: basketball and badminton
14. Two years of school research</p>

<p>Looks like you have some pretty sicknasty research ECs there…got any pubs?</p>

<p>I think the Goldwater is probably your biggest hook. If I were you, I’d aim mostly mid-low upper tier. I don’t think you’re going to get into JHU or Penn or anything like that but I don’t think a Northwestern or Case Western or Mt. Sinai is out of the question.</p>

<p>Thanks NorCal. Yea, i guess i might just throw 1 or 2 reach schools (sorta doubtful i could get in them).</p>

<p>Yea, i dont have any pubs, but i did get to know my PI really well for my senior thesis work and did get best thesis award.</p>

<p>I hope this list is reasonable (Are there any other OOS privates that tend to take CA students). </p>

<p>Hopeful
UCSF
UCLA
UCSD
Nortwestern
Mayo
Vanderbilt or Mt. Sinai
Case Western
NYU</p>

<p>Go for it
UCI
USC
UC Davis
Einstein
OHSU
OSU
Miami
Georgetown
Tufts
Boston U
U Hawaii (not sure if they accept OOS?)
NYMC
U- Nevada Reno (not sure if they accept OOS?)
GWU
Temple
Rochester
Rosalind Franklin
Jefferson</p>

<p>U-Nevada Reno will not consider CA residents for admission.</p>

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<p>U Hawaii will entertain applications from OOS, but their interview/acceptance rate for OOS students is ridiculously low. OOS: 1439 applied; 74 interviewed; 24 accepted for 2010.</p>

<p>I think i’m pretty close to finalizing my list (i think it should be pretty broad). Im not sure if any super reaches like duke or cornell are worth throwing in? </p>

<p>Albert Einstein College of Medicine*
Boston University School of Medicine*
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine*
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA*
George Washington University Sch of Med & Hlth Sci*
Georgetown University School of Medicine*
Jefferson Medical Coll. of Thomas Jefferson Univ.*
Keck Sch. of Med.University of Southern California*
Medical College of Wisconsin*
New York Medical College*
New York University*
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicin*
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Scien*
The Ohio State Univ. Coll. of Med.*
The University of Miami School of Medicine*
Tufts University School of Medicine*
University of California San Diego*
University of California San Francisco*
University of California, Davis School of Medicine*
University of California, Irvine- College/Medicine*
University of Colorado School of Medicine*
University of Illinois at Chicago-College of Medic*</p>

<p>Add AZ & OR, possibly TX, as far as publics west of the Mississippi, those are your best bets for accepting OOS</p>

<p>You have wonderful ECs, but it is a fact that some schools will choose not to consider those because your MCAT is not amazing, it’s solid, it’s fine, don’t retake, just know there are some schools which will not choose to even talk to you. That’s their loss.</p>

<p>Have you applied yet? The biggest boost you can get is to apply early. If you are applying this cycle, I would get that primary submitted and make sure your LORS & transcripts are on there way. Then head to SDN forum and start figuring out the secondary questions you will need to answer, get them done ahead of time so you can have a quick turnaround time. If you are submitting 2011, you are already a month behind some of your competitors.</p>

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somemom, OP did say he/she is applying this cycle. So your suggestion in your last paragraph is one OP should follow ASAP.</p>

<p>Excellent GPA, solid MCAT, excellent ECs. Should be good for some non-California schools if applying wisely and widely. California schools are uphill battles for everyone.</p>

<p>Sorry if my recommendations start getting a little redundant on this forum, but I feel the end to advertise for my college’s medical school. =) </p>

<p>OP what about Emory’s medical school? Its average MCAT score is a 33 (your mcat score is not far off and your AMAZING Ec’s and AMAZING GPA should be more than enough to compensate for scoring 2 points less than the average). Plus since your into research, the headquarters of the CDC is right across the street. Its average gpa for the entering class of 2009 was a 3.66, your gpa is much higher…</p>

<p>Thanks for all your input.</p>

<p>Colleges00701, thanks for reminding me about Emory. I will be looking into Emory now. I think was sort of limiting myself on the number of top 20 schools to put on my list</p>

<p>I’d drop Georgetown. Too many “connected” admits skew their stats and huge number of applicants make it a far tougher admit than it looks on the surface.</p>

<p>Definitely would do Texas app but get it done ASAP, you’re already real late for early match process (they are already offering spots) but could get in for later interviews and admit/wait lists.</p>

<p>Quick question eadad, since im not a texas resident, wont admission to the texas schools be really difficult for me as non-resident?</p>

<p>Yep, really difficult. But the point is that it’s tough everywhere. I like your chances with a Texas app a lot better than Georgetown or a number of other schools mentioned. Do it and be sure to sell the idea that you will come to Texas if accepted. Texas medical schools are a bargain as many OOS kids get a $1000 scholarship which qualifies them for IS tuition.) BTW : Good profile. Good job. Go to work. Won’t take that long to modify your Amcas. Read the TMDSAS thread on studentdoc.</p>

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curm, Recently, some posted at SDN that only PUBLIC medical schools in Texas (e.g., UT-SW) do something like this. For the private medical school, the students need to buy a condo in order to qualify for IS tuition starting from MS2.</p>

<p>How credible is this statement? If this true, more poorer OOS students who can not afford to buy a condo may choose UT-SW over BCM, for example, if they are admitted to both. (It appears very few have been admitted to both though. BCM seems to be have more students from the school that is next to its door. It is therefore quite possible the families of their students may be wealthier – so can afford a condo. Meeting with the real estate agent is an important part of the 2nd look :))</p>

<p>Yeah. I was talking about our public schools. Should have been more specific.</p>

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<p>54 percent of Rice’s students are in-state. This means BCM gives them preference and they get in-state tuition. I think thats the reason so many kids from Rice end at BCM. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of the out-of-state/in-state kids at BCM from Rice. I would imagine that 80+ percent of all the Rice kids at BCM will be Texas residents. I doubt a lot of Rice kids who are out-of-state end up at BCM simply because its SO HARD to get into BCM if you are out-of-state.</p>

<p>Maybe Curm or Eadad can answer this next question. Do you guys know if Texas medical schools give preference to kids who live in states that are nearby like Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico? These states have few medical schools and I was wondering if Texas medical schools gave kids from those states some preference over other out-of-state kids. I know some other states have agreements like that where if another state has few medical schools, a nearby state with more medical schools may give kids from the other state a slight preference. Just wondering because I have some friends from Louisiana who are really interested in BCM and UT-SW.</p>

<p>I’d also be interested since I have a d who is may be applying a year or two and wants something “better” than our state med school like BCM and UT-SW.</p>

<p>(Actually she’s in love with Seattle and UWash SOM, but that’s a whole different discussion.)</p>

<p>WowMom, It may not be good to post the interests of an applicant. One applicant applying in the past cycle to an east coast school appears to have gotten into a trouble likely because of this. (Boy…don’t we hate this aspect of the medical school application process? An applicant needs to show earnest love to every school he applies to by necessity. It is almost like they encourage lying or at least hiding your feelings. I guess DS almost got out of the premed track altogether because of these ugly aspects of application process.)</p>

<p>Regarding Seattle: It rains too much and is foggy too often there. – although it does not have wild fire like in AZ and NM. :)</p>

<p>I would think they likely would love kids from the neighboring states (and the state like California whose students are more likely go OOS.)</p>

<p>i dont know about the other texas schools, but i know the texas tech schools like kids from new mexico</p>

<p>was that school hopkins?</p>