MD & DO 509, 3.95, Rural interest, Need help cutting list down

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Hi everyone, I would appreciate comments or advice on my list. I submitted July 3 with my state school and now I'm adding the rest. I would like 20 MD and 5 DO (good numbers?). I have an interest in rural medicine, but to be honest I'm not set on any discipline. I have about 12 MD confirmed on my list based on region, specialty, ties, residency, etc. I need to find the other 8. I'm a Mn resident, grew up in Illinois and family is still there.
12MD-> MN Duluth, MN, Rosy Franklin, Rush, Loyola, WCOM, U of I, WV, Vermont, E Virginia, Creighton, Oakland Beaumont
Need 8 from-> Albany, VComm, Wake, George Washington, NYMC, Tufts, Netter, Temple, Penn, NOVA, Seton Hall, Wayne, Drexel, Tulane
DO-> Des Moines, kcumb, azcom, nyit, pcom (thinking of ccom, right down from my house, but cost sucks)

MCAT-503- 127/124/128/124 (4/2015) retake-509 128/124/127/130 (1/2018),
GPA- 3.95 sGPA=4.0, outstanding student award (top in grad. class)
Major- movement science (exercise science geared towards pre-professionals)
Minor- nutrition
Graduated in Fall 2016, 24 years old, white male
Uni- Small Mn State school, originally from Illinois but have lived up in Mn in my gap years

Shadowing= 120 hours between 7 specialties, but have not continued since 2014

Volunteering- non medical (around 3500 hours)
-Started a lacrosse program in the area for the youth, Head varsity coach for 5 years, grew it to 3 teams and a girls program, fund-raised about $15,000, adapted to a league that crashed, Won a championship our first year
-Mentored a 14 year old kid that was referred to the program through the courts. Got him into the lacrosse program. Primarily was trying to be a role model for him.

Medical-paid
2015-present EMT for a service area of 10,000. Paid on call. Trauma/CPR instructor. Camp EMT for a 4H camp. 3000hours
2017-2018- CNA at a nursing home for 6 months 1100 hours
2018- Present- PCA for one of Mayo's oncology unit (1100 hours to be recorded)

Nonmedical-paid
Tutoring/master tutor for 3 years, analyzed data and helped start a program for undergraduates to get off academic probation with a tutor mentor.

Research
Retrospective Colonoscopy quality analysis review for local hospital, PI, presentation, 2nd place at a symposium, no publication. 200 hours
Lab work with West Nile Virus replicons looking at entry tropism- 2nd author, 1st place at the same symposium, 4 poster presentations including a regional and national conference. No pub. 200 hours
Will volunteer in a lab this year with new cancer lab at a hospital close to mine, setting this up now.

Other stuff
Fraternity- housing corpman and scholarship chair. Changed a couple things that are still in place.
Hobbies (why not)- powerlifting, fish keeping/aquaponics, fishing

 

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You are competitive for all DO schools.
Add NOVA MD, Seton Hall, Drexel, Temple, Penn State, Netter, NYMC, George Washington.

 

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You are competitive for all DO schools.
Add NOVA MD, Seton Hall, Drexel, Temple, Penn State, Netter, NYMC, George Washington.

I appreciate the advice. Could you please let me know your thoughts on why you chose this list? I get NOVA/Seton Hall.

 

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I appreciate the advice. Could you please let me know your thoughts on why you chose this list? I get NOVA/Seton Hall.

These are schools where you are more likely to receive interviews with your stats. You could add all of the others but Tulane is becoming more competitive, Wayne State gives preference to Michigan residents and Virginia Commonwealth to some extent Virginia residents. Tufts is also more competitive than the other schools.