MD WAMC/Help with School List (cGPA 3.84, sGPA 3.74, mcat 515)

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Hello! I need some advice if my school list has a good balance of safety and within-reach schools. If you think I should add/delete any schools, please let me know!! Thanks again everyone :)

cGPA: 3.84 ; sGPA: 3.74
MCAT: 515 (C/P: 128, CARS: 127, B/B: 130, P/S: 130)
State Residence: MI
Ethnicity: ORM
Attended University of Michigan
Clinical Paid: PCT (755 hours) ; Clinical Volunteering: hospice (44.5 hours), hospital (79 hours), blood drive (46 hours)
Research: 866 hours (including 2 manuscripts in preparation, 1 undergraduate research fellowship w/ presentation)
In-Person Shadowing: 50 hours (fam med, cardiology, internist, peds, neurology) ; Virtual Shadowing: 38 hours
Non-Clinical Volunteering: crisis text line (146 hours), food pantry (50 hours)
Social Justice Advocacy: worked with organization dealing with urban poverty (150 hours)
Leadership: student org exec board (135 hours), secretary for club (46)
Tutoring: tutored elementary kids on reading (33 hours)
Hobbies: learning language (120 hours)
LORs: research mentor, physician I shadowed, 2 STEM professors, 1 sociology professor

Graduated 1 semester early (dec 2021). Supposed to apply last cycle but I needed to boost clinical hours so I spent most of my time doing that.

Current School List:
Howard University
Central Michigan University College of Medicine
Albany Medical College
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
Drexel University College of Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
New York Medical College
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D.School of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Ohio State University College of Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Boston University School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
Duke University School of Medicine
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont

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Remove Howard since they mainly admit applicants from the African American community. You should receive several interviews from the other schools on your list.
 
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