Would appreciate help with school list and app review

[Mangocat22]

I am very very bad at creating school lists and accurately gauging my own app.



App so far:

-applying in May

cGPA: 3.84

sGPA: 3.8

MCAT: 520

T10 undergrad

Washington resident

Majors: Computer Science with machine learning concentration and Neuroscience



Research: About 5000 hours? 6 publications (3 first author)

-3000 hours during undergrad in a brain computer interface lab for neuro degeneration.

-2000 hours working full time as a research associate in computational neuroscience after undergrad



Clinical and Shadowing: About 1000 hours as a CNA, 200 as a medical scribe, and 50 hours shadowing.



Nonclinical: About 400 hours volunteering with and later running a dementia care organization at a local residential home.



Red Flags/Cons: 1 W in a non-prerequisite class, ORM, and mediocre GPA



I am applying about 1/2 MD and 1/2 MD-PhD, but am struggling to choose MD schools. Can any of you with similar interests recommend a couple schools? I don’t want to be the delusional person with a t20/top heavy school list, and I want to apply to schools I am realistically competitive for. I really don’t care where I go, I just want to get into 1, but I would love a school in a cold climate with strong neuro engineering or comp neuro research.





I’m not including my current school list because if any of you recommend 1 that is already on it, it serves as confirmation.

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[Mr.Smile12]

So what motivates you to do MD/PhD? Or just med? I don't get a sense of a story other than neuroscience. Your numbers are fine and check the boxes.

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats and ECs:
Carle Illinois
U Washington
Washington State
U Michigan
Northwestern
Washington University (almost a guaranteed interview with your stats)
Case Western
Cincinnati
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Dartmouth
Harvard
Tufts
Yale
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
Columbia
Cornell

 

[Mangocat22]

I suggest these schools with your stats and ECs:
Carle Illinois
U Washington
Washington State
U Michigan
Northwestern
Washington University (almost a guaranteed interview with your stats)
Case Western
Cincinnati
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Dartmouth
Harvard
Tufts
Yale
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
Columbia
Cornell

I appreciate the list. I can’t apply to Yale because I have AP credit and Harvard app feels a bit like a donation, but the rest seem solid. I didn’t think of Rochester or Illinois.