I finished 30 secondaries mostly during the first week of August to the end of august. I’ve only received one interview from a T10 program and a rejection from UW.
Is it worth adding more schools and are there any schools that have later cycles? Also, when should I send updates if at all?
Hello everyone, I am reapplying this 2026/2027 cycle and I was hoping to get advice on my chances at T10 programs, expanding my school list and bother adding more reach schools.
General Info/Stats:
ORM from a top public university. I'm a physics and bio major in my senior year. CA Resident
GPA/BCPM: 3.75/3.76 (I have all A's and like 2 B's in my premed prereqs)
MCAT: 520
Research:
Lab 1: ~1600 hours over 2 years (mainly during the summers). Mostly wet lab with a little bit of dry lab involvement.
One middle author preprint that has been submitted to a IF 16 journal and coauthor review paper submitted at small journal. A few coauthor abstract/posters at national conferences and 1 first author poster at a institutional conference.
Lab 2: ~2000 hours over two years and 2000 more projected hours. Purely computational biology/ML work. Almost all of this work is independent/my ownership, plus I lead the project/team.
3 ML/BioE papers. 1 has been published and 2 have been accepted. 1 preprinted paper and about to be submitted. 5+ poster/presentations. All work from this lab is first or co-first author work. Plus, one provisional patent application.
The letter from this PI will be really strong.
Clinical:
Clinical volunteering: ~320 hours
Shadowing: ~100 hours across a few specialties
Other Experiences:
Leadership in physician-scientist club: ~200 hours
Volunteering for underserved populations: ~100 hours
Health literacy/transparency advocacy: ~250 hours, I have authored 6 short works from this activity
School list:
California: Stanford, UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, Davis
Reaches: Duke, Yale, Cornell, Pitt-CMU, Emory, Pritzker, Vanderbilt, UW, UMich, Sinai, UVA, UTSW, Baylor
Target: Stonybrook, Wisconsin, Rochester, Colorado, Carle Illinois, UIC, Einstein, MCW, Boston, UofA Tuscon, UTHSCSA, CWRU, UNC