Chance me for WashU & Northwestern!

UNC Charlotte and ECU are good highly likelies/safeties, as long as you would be happy to attend either. ECU does have a very good honors college and early assurance program in medicine that you might consider: https://honors.ecu.edu/admissions/early-assurance/

WashU and NU RD rounds will be difficult to stand out. Certainly apply to several reaches, but these two are unlikely…especially considering you will need $20K-25K or so merit.

Did you take the PSAT/are you likely to qualify to be a national merit scholar? If so, you might look at schools that offer large NMF merit like U Alabama, ASU, et al. Nothing wrong with saving money to apply to med school.

Look for schools with EA or rolling admission to get an early acceptance. U Pittsburgh is rolling, if you get your app in by Aug/Sept, you should have an acceptance in October. Here is list of rolling admission schools: https://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/colleges-and-universities-with-rolling-admission/

For matches/targets: Case Western (but HAVE to apply EA and demonstrate interest), Wake Forest (but enough merit might be hard), Lehigh, SMU, U Denver, Santa Clara, U San Diego. Larger schools that could work price wise and are in a city/suburb would be OSU, Mich State, Indiana U.

@Publisher Looks like OP needs merit aid (aside from in-state publics), so the schools on your list that don’t offer merit won’t work (e.g, Swat, Williams, Pomona, Amherst, etc).

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