MD Aiming for top schools, any weaknesses in my app? WAMC?

[Caterpillar34]

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Hello! I am aiming for admission into some top schools and would like some of your guidance. Does my app have any weaknesses I can improve on? Is my school list decent? Should I add/remove any schools? Thanks in advance.

Also, I'm considering applying EDP for my state school in hoped of getting a scholarship, what do you think?

Stats:
ORM (middle eastern)
cGPA: 3.99
sGPA: 3.99
MCAT: Scheduled for June 2019 (What's a good goal?)

Volunteering:
- Emergency Room Volunteer at Hospital (100 hours)
- Pathology Lab Volunteer at Hospital (200 hours)
- Soup Kitchen Volunteer (50 hours)
- Sunday School Teacher (300 hours)
- Pediatric Clinic Volunteer (200 hours)
- Camp Counselor (600 hours)
- Youth Soccer Coach (70 hours)
- Started a free ACT group tutoring service for young refuges interested in college (100 hours)

Leadership:
- Vice President of University RSO
- President of Youth Group

Hobbies:
- Rated ~1200 in Table Tennis (considering starting intercollegiate league in my school as I get better)
- I have a movie blog

Shadowing:
- 20 hours IM (Pulmonary and Critical Care)
- 10 hours Pathology
- 20 hours Pediatrics

Research
- 700 hours in private sector pharmaceutical research (associated with University)
- 1 3rd author publication
- 1 poster presentation at undergrad symposium

Here is my School List:
My State Schools
NYU
Vanderbilt
Northwestern
Mayo
Pitt
UCSD
UCSF
Hofstra
Ohio State
U Cincy
USC/Keck
USF Morsani
Albert Einstein
U Chicago
U Penn
Jefferson
Miami
U IA
U VM
Western MI
Columbia
Duke
Harvard
Cornell
Stanford
U Michigan
U Virginia
Boston University
Case
Dartmouth
WashU
Yale
Johns Hopkins
Emory
Rochester
Baylor

 

[Walter Raleigh]

Maybe shadow a primary care doctor. With a 520 or better you're golden for top 20s, although you could be competitive with a 517 or better. Best luck! @Goro, thoughts? OP's got a thousand hours of nonclinical volunteering, 500 hours of clinical volunteering, and a paper in a reputable journal: that's better than a lot of top-20 matriculants.

 

[puahate]

Just do well on your MCAT and you are good

 

[Pharaoh95]

This post is useless without an MCAT. Come back when you have a score.

 

[jarednogeek]

Your app looks good so far. Could use some most research pubs for top schools. MCAT will determine competitiveness