I applied in the 2020-2021 cycle (3II, 2 WL, 0 A), and I'm preparing for possible reapplication.
From feedback, one of my biggest issues was my school list. While I had very high stats and decent EC's, I was definitely too cocky and I applied to too many very competitive T20 and Cali/NY schools. I am also working on my W&A, PS, and writing, but that's not the point of this post.
I've been making a new school list for the 2021-2022 cycle with people's recommendations and feedback. Can you guys critique my new list, especially in comparison to the old one?
My main concerns are:
- Do I have a good mix of high and mid/lower tier schools?
- Am I a good fit for these schools? (see school interests below)
- Is yield protection a thing at these schools? aka are my stats so high it lowers my chances at lower stat schools?
- Should I reapply to more schools that I applied to last year? I picked out some schools that I really liked from my previous list because of their location, programs, research, OOS pref, etc, even though they're really competitive.
- Any other school recommendations?
Stats:
MCAT 519
GPA 4.0
ORM
EC's and background in more detail:
Possible high stat reapplication: need advice
School interests:
State connections:
Georgia (resident), New York (sister went to college there), Cali (bf lives there)
Interests: research in personalized medicine/medical informatics, research programs that don't interfere with the curriculum, community service for the underserved especially free clinics, student wellness and organizations
Specialty interests: primary care, internal medicine, GI, OB/GYN
NON interests: rural medicine (goodbye mercer), population health, Emergency Medicine
OLD School list (2020-2021) updated with more R's
School: | Response: |
Mercer University School of Medicine | R |
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University | post interview- WL |
New york medical college | |
University of Virginia School of Medicine | post interview- WL |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine | |
Tufts University School of Medicine | R |
Emory University School of Medicine | R |
Weill Cornell Medicine | R |
Harvard Medical School | R |
Yale School of Medicine | R |
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine | |
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine | R |
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine | no secondary received |
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania | R |
New York University Grossman School of Medicine | post interview- R |
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine | R |
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | R |
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine | R |
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | R |
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons | R |
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California | R |
POSSIBLE NEW school list (2021-2022)
Medical college of Georgia |
Emory University |
University of Virginia School of Medicine |
New York University Grossman School of Medicine |
Weill Cornell Medicine |
Tufts University School of Medicine |
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Drexel University College of Medicine |
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University |
Georgetown University School of Medicine |
Albany Medical College |
Boston University School of Medicine |
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University |
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine |
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University |
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science |
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine |
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |