Critique my list/give advice

[MedWonk]

Male, non-trad, not URM, MA resident
cGPA: 3.5
sGPA: 3.6
post-bacc GPA: 3.7
MCAT: 35 (12 PS, 11 VR, 12 BS)

ECs:
3 years full-time middle school teacher in Japan
175 hours volunteer @ hospital over 1.5 years
Full-time ER scribe for four months, still going
Part-time public school substitute teacher since January (6 to 16 hours/week)
One week in New Orleans helping to rebuild houses/clean up Katrina damage
Volunteer @ animal shelter (4 hours/week) since January
Judo/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu off and on over the last 4 years
Amateur homebrewer (I make beer) for the last 2 years
Participate/volunteer crew at PDX Adult Soapbox Derby for the past two summers

Schools I'm considering:

UMass
Boston U
Tufts
U of Virginia
Dartmouth
Rochester
Yeshiva
Wake Forest
Penn State
U of Vermont
Georgetown
Temple
OHSU
Medical College of Wisc
Creighton
Drexel
Jefferson
Rosalind Franklin
Albany Medical College
Loyola
VCU
NYMC
George Washington
Tulane
UNECOM

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[MedWonk]

So, perfect list?

 

[red doctober]

I think you're looking pretty good. Do you have shadowing experience? If not you should try to get in at least 50 hours. The only thing really lacking in your app is research experience, but your list doesn't really include research-juggernauts.

 

[MedWonk]

I think you're looking pretty good. Do you have shadowing experience? If not you should try to get in at least 50 hours. The only thing really lacking in your app is research experience, but your list doesn't really include research-juggernauts.

That was the plan. I know I can't get any meaningful research experience between now and June, so I decided to focus on things I could shore up and strengthen. I don't have shadowing yet, but I've been in contact with a couple physicians, and we're ironing out the details of what hoops I need to jump through to make it happen. So, hopefully I'll have shadowing outside of what I do as a scribe.