r/premed • u/NinthDragon • 1d ago
❔ Discussion Canadian PhD applicant - help with my school list?
Hey! I'm a Canadian with a PhD in neuroscience looking to apply for the 2025-2026 cycle. I'd appreciate any help with building my school list or some feedback!
Stats:
MCAT - 521 (C/P: 131, CARS: 128, Bio: 132, P/S: 130)
GPA - 3.85 Undergrad, 3.96 Grad School
Volunteering - 300+ hours in university clubs (mostly health/addiction-related), ~600 hours in hospital volunteering (non-clinical), 12+ hours (lol) in hospital research ethics board (started last Dec 2024)
Clinical hours - 300+ hours across ER dept & palliative care floors
Shadowing - 0 (!) hours shadowing (hard to do in Canada)
Research: 10000+ hours of research during PhD & undergrad, 7 conference poster presentations (4 Canadian national-level, 3 international), 5 papers (2nd-mid author, no first author pub yet - still writing the manuscripts)
School list: Currently looking at the following schools
- Columbia PhD-to-MD program
- NYU Grossman.
- Wayne State
- Duke University
- Boston
- Yale
- Dartmouth
- Harvard HST program
- Case Western
- Renaissance Stonybrook
Could anyone recommend any additional schools that are Canadian-friendly that I could add or any schools I should remove/change? Feedback and criticism is appreciated (ex. lot of top-heavy schools...). This is my first school list and I am sure that I have misconceptions and mistakes. Please let me know your thoughts!
Thanks for your help!
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u/CreativeCurrency2709 NON-TRADITIONAL 3h ago
Illinois schools: UIC + UChicago + Northwestern (pretty Canadian friendly)
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