Help with school list - NY Resident 3.67 GPA 32Q MCAT

NY state resident
Biochemistry Major/Finance minor
3.67cum/3.65 science GPA
7/6/11 MCAT - 26M 7VR/10PS/9BS
7/6/12 MCAT - 32Q 8VR/13PS/11BS <-- unbalanced I know but I don't want to retake
Renee Crown Honors Program

Volunteer Experience:
- 200+ hours at 3 different hospitals - one of them was at an ICU where I had a lot of patient interaction and got to look in on rounds
- 50 hours shadowing ortho surgeon
- 2 week medical brigade trip setting up health clinics in Peru
- Vice president of fraternity at school for a year
- Vice president of external affairs for the Interfraternity Council
- Organized an annual trick or treat event at our school's campus for inner-city school children (took 3 months of planning)
- Organized a 3v3 basketball tournament that raised money for American Cancer Society as well as the Alzheimer Foundation
- Participated in a habitat for humanity trip spring break sophomore year

Research
- 1.5 years of research leading to 4th author on Science paper
- 1 year of surgical research at SUNY upstate

Other
Can speak Russian fluently
Assistant captain of club lacrosse team and roller hockey team
Owner of a macbook pro repair eBay store

Basically I want to know if my school list is broad enough given my stats.
School List:
1. Albert Einstein College of Medicine <--reach?
2. Boston University School of Medicine <-- reach
3. George Washington University Sch of Med & Hlth Sci
4. The University of Miami School of Medicine <-- reach?
5. New York University <-- reach
6. New York Medical College
7. Tufts University School of Medicine <-- reach?
8. SUNY Upstate Medical University
9. Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
10. Georgetown University School of Medicine
11. Albany Medical College
12. Brown <-- reach
13. Emory University School of Medicine <-- reach
14. Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
15. State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
16. Keck School of Medicine of USC
17. SUNY Stony Brook
18. Jefferson
19. Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
20. Temple
21. Tulane
22. UVA <-- reach since it seems it favors in state
23. Drexel
24. Rosalind Franklin
25. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth college <-- can certainly dream haha
26. SUNY Buffalo

Anyways I should be verified within the next week so I hope I am not too late. Any help or advice on my school list would be much appreciated!! Growing up in NYC I would really like to attend school in or near a major city so please keep that in mind. Thanks 😀

EDIT: Updated List

Hah haven't heard of the magic "3.7 and 32" for NY schools but lets hope! And in terms of Cali schools I know UCLA is a longshot but if money isn't an issue I would like to at least try. However, does USC favor in-state heavily?

Took out UCLA, Arizona, Cornell, Dartmouth and FAU. Added Brown, Tulane, SUNY Buffalo and Rosalind Franklin in an attempt to add more realistic schools. Is this list broad enough?

Lucky Louie said:

If you're Russian, Brown likes that. They're into lots of diversity.

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Yea I was actually born in Moscow, immigrated to NYC and to this day Russian is the only language I speak at home. While Brown is definitely a reach and I know they tend to save a good amount of seats for their BS/MD program, I would still love to go there. I think I'll just add Dartmouth and see what happens. Haven't even considered Creighton since its all the way out in Nebraska...
Again thanks for the advice! My biggest concern is having a well rounded list with enough safeties/matches and not too many reaches.

Bump? Anyone? I would ideally like to re-submit today or tomorrow.

darkjedi said:

I'm not sure where you heard that, but that doesn't sound right at all




I think you have a very good and appropriate list for your stats, you need to submit ASAP

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Thanks, still waiting to get verified, submitted on July 26th so hopefully should be good to go in the next week or so.

impact2d said:

I think I worked on your PS, right? Any word on the verification. Your MCAT is similar to mine but my MCAT is pretty balanced. My cGPA is 3.8 and sGPA is a 4.0. Your list looks good to me, I think pretty broad. I'm only applying to about 16 schools because I needed to try to cut it down for financial reasons. If I can make some more money before it gets too late I may add a few big time reaches (Cornell, Yale, and Columbia).

I don't think Miami is a reach for you, you are right around their average and they are expanding their OOS acceptance this year as part of the transition to a private university. They also love diversity. If you do apply there, please make sure to get a jump start on their secondary this late in the in the game. I got it 3 days ago and it's still not done, it's taking forever. In fact, pre-write as many as possible because its starting to approach the later part of the "regular" season. If you are applying to 20+ schools I wonder if I'm going for too few with 16. It seems like a big list when I look at it.

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Just saw your post haha... got verified 9/4 and have roughly half of my secondaries in. Miami and NYU are tough tho, should have those done in the next couple of days 🙄

So as I'm submitting my secondaries, I'm a bit worried I didn't apply to enough lower-tier schools. Can anyone suggest 1-2 more lower-tier medical schools that may be worth applying to given my stats. Thanks!