california resident and went to a UC

32P 8VR 12PS 12BS
BCPM 3.94
CUM. 3.90

-2 summers research at a small biotech company (both summer's unique in their goals)
-1 summer research in a academic lab with foundation work to a paper (didn't finish)
-2 years post college working at a large biotech in oncology research
-100+ hours emergency room clinical research
-100+ hours pediatric patient care
-4 years campus ministry (leader 3 years, president 1 year)
- various awards/academic achievements/scholarships blah blah blah
-plus other significant EC's
-7 letters of rec (3 bosses, 2 science prof's, 1 science prof/major advisor, 1 social science prof)



I think that's pretty much the nitty-gritty.

My question is this, should I seek to apply to schools OUTSIDE of the top 50 (according to the oh so accurate US News rankings)? Or, would I be shooting myself in the foot if I didn't?

Anyways, I pretty much have a list of 30 schools from the top 50 that I plan to apply too... any suggestions as to which schools to/not to apply to would be awesome.

Thanks in advance.

california resident and went to a UC

32P 8VR 12PS 12BS
BCPM 3.94
CUM. 3.90

-2 summers research at a small biotech company (both summer's unique in their goals)
-1 summer research in a academic lab with foundation work to a paper (didn't finish)
-2 years post college working at a large biotech in oncology research
-100+ hours emergency room clinical research
-100+ hours pediatric patient care
-4 years campus ministry (leader 3 years, president 1 year)
- various awards/academic achievements/scholarships blah blah blah
-plus other significant EC's
-7 letters of rec (3 bosses, 2 science prof's, 1 science prof/major advisor, 1 social science prof)



I think that's pretty much the nitty-gritty.

My question is this, should I seek to apply to schools OUTSIDE of the top 50 (according to the oh so accurate US News rankings)? Or, would I be shooting myself in the foot if I didn't?

Anyways, I pretty much have a list of 30 schools from the top 50 that I plan to apply too... any suggestions as to which schools to/not to apply to would be awesome.

Thanks in advance.

Please help me out. I would like to apply to at least 25 schools, and I definitely do not want to shoot myself in the foot and have to re-apply/re-take the MCAT. Thanks in advance.

FOR SURE
UCSF
UCLA
UCI
UCD
UCSD
Stanford
USC
Pritzker
Northwestern
Oregon H&S
AECOM
UMich
UPitt
U of Colorado
UW (yeah i'm OOS, but i have family there and want to try)
Cornell
ColumbiaMAYBE

Baylor
Georgetown
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Mount Sinai
New York University
University of Vermont
University of Maryland
Yale
Dartmouth
Tufts
PROBABLY NOT

Case Western
Duke
Emory
Mayo
Ohio State
U of Virginia
U of Wisc
Wake Forest
WashU
Vanderbilt
Brown