3.97/MCAT pending/MD/ORM. School List Help

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PhaCha

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Hello everyone, I need help checking my school list as I am not sure if my stats/EC's warrant the amount of top schools I applied to.
  • Graduated: Fall 2020
  • URM?: No, ORM
  • Country/state of residence: Maryland
  • Cumulative GPA: 3.97
  • Science GPA: 3.98
  • MCAT Scores: Waiting for score, expecting around 520, pessimistic is 517-518
  • Research – Worked on my on neuroscience research in a lab (2 years, about 550 hours total) with no pubs and some disruption due to covid, did a funded summer research program at a medical school which was virtual due to covid (180 hours)
  • Volunteering (clinical) – Unpaid medical assistant for a few months (400 hours) and still ongoing with many hours projected. Volunteered at a clinic for three summers in developing (home) country for about 500 hours, planning to do more during gap year.
  • Physician shadowing – 40 hours in internal medicine and surgery
  • Clinical - Scribe for half a year with about 150 hours.
  • Non-clinical volunteering: Online tutor during covid (200 hours), volunteer at high school in underserved area in my home country (300 hours)
  • Teaching: Many different TA and tutoring experiences since my sophomore year (1200 hours total)
  • Extracurricular activities: was captain of a sports team for every semester.
Schools thinking of applying to:

Dartmouth, Hopkins, UCSF, Yale, Northwestern, Howard, Icahn, Maryland, Stanford, UCLA, Harvard, Emory, UVA, Georgetown, UPenn (perelman), Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Pittsburgh, Mayo, Vanderbilt, University of Michigan, Arizona, Tufts, Temple, GWU, uChicago, NYU, BostonU, Virginia Commonwealth, Albert Einstein

Might do a couple of DO schools as well for backup. Any feedback would be amazing, and thank you very much.
 
Post your actual MCAT score here when available and I will comment on potential schools to apply to.
My actual MCAT turned to be a 518 (131/124/131/132). Really got destroyed by CARS on the day. I would appreciate suggestions for schools to apply
 
I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Maryland
Georgetown
George Washington
U Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
West Virginia
Duke
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
Hofstra
Einstein
Mount Sinai
NYU
Rochester
Boston University
Tufts
Dartmouth
USF Morsani
Miami
Tulane
St. Louis
Western Michigan
U Michigan
Case Western
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Kaiser
Mayo
Your CARS score of 124 may be below the minimum for some top tier schools.
 
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