4.0/514 CA applicant! Help Narrow Down School List

[nm2000]

Hi, I am making my school list now and would please love any help I can get trying to narrow it down.

Stats: 4.0, 514 MCAT (low CARS), Ivy-league

Extracurriculars:
- D1 athlete (+1000 hours)
- Hospice singing
- Writer for medical ethics paper at school
- analyst for healthcare investment group
- refugee youth tutor
- French language tutor (speak 3 languages0
- women in stem mentor
- basketball coach

Volunteer/Clinical
- shadow family medicine doctor (150 hours)
- volunteer at free clinic (200-300 hours)
- medical assistant at private medical practice (400 hours)

Research
- orthopedic research/no publication
- dermatology&COVID-19 research/1 publication - 600 hours

School List Help

I need help deciding if I should apply to these schools. I am OOS and don't know if it is worth it... I would like to choose 3 schools from this list below to add. What do you recommend?

- Virginia commonwealth
-UMaryland
-Ullinois
- UWisconsin
- Ucincinatti
- Creighton
- UMass
- Uiowa
- Toledo
- SLU
- UVermont
- Penn State

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[candbgirl]

Creighton and SLU are private schools so they have no OOS bias when they select students. UofI is obviously public but as a FYI it is crazy expensive for OOS students. So unless you don’t care you might not want to add Illinois.