MD 4.0 523 School list trad ORM Help

[GastroMD]

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Trad application applying to MD schools. Looking for advice on where to apply and greatly appreciate any feedback. Thank you in advance for your help!
cGPA: 4.0, sGPA: 4.0
MCAT: 523
Majors: Biology
Residence: CA
Ethnicity: Asian F
Undergraduate: T10 (Ivy)
Research: 1500 hrs over 5 summers-4 first author pubs, 8 posters national conf
Shadowing: 100 hours multiple specialities
Clinical experience (volunteer): EMT at my college- 300 hrs
Non-clinical (volunteering): transportation, volunteer at the front desk of a clinic (250 hrs)
Immediate family members in medicine? : Y
Hobbies/Extracurriculars: Captain of club sports team at my college
Awards: 2 best poster presenter awards at national conference

Here is the school list- is this too top heavy, add more schools or change anything?


Stanford
UCSF
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
UPenn
NYU
Columbia
UCLA
Wash U
Cornell
Mayo Clinic Arizona
Yale
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
Vanderbilt
Northwestern
Mount Sinai
Case Western
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Program
UPitt
UVA
USC
Tufts
Boston University
Einstein
Emory
Brown
Dartmouth
UCSD
UC Davis
UC Irvine
Kaiser Permanente
USF Morsani
Hofstra
Indiana University
University of Rochester

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums!

On first blush, I wonder why you have so little clinical experience. Shadowing is a ok, but you have so much more on research than other clinical exposure.

 

[atriablack]

Clinical experience (volunteer): EMT at my college- 300 hrs

I also had around the same hours for clinical experience (also was a traditional, straight through applicant) I think you should fine.

Non-clinical (volunteering): transportation, volunteer at the front desk of a clinic (250 hrs)

The volunteer at a front desk of a clinic isn't going to count as a non-clinical unfortunately. What were your transportation hours in?

 

[GastroMD]

Same here straight through applicant. Currently junior in college hence limited clinical time.
Re non clinical also have additional hours teaching high schoolers cpr etc that in all add upto 250 hours or so.
Thanks all for your responses.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Same here straight through applicant. Currently junior in college hence limited clinical time.
Re non clinical also have additional hours teaching high schoolers cpr etc that in all add upto 250 hours or so.
Thanks all for your responses.

Could you please itemize all these activities? Teaching/tutoring/mentoring is an academic activity that is common among applicants that it won't help you stand out.

 

[atriablack]

also have additional hours teaching high schoolers cpr etc that in all add upto 250 hours or so.

Unfortunately teaching/tutoring has its own category in work and activities and is not usually counted as non clinical volunteering.