MD Chances at Top 20's? CA, 512, 3.72/3.73

[djsbaseball2014]

Hey all, I am trying to gauge which other top 20's i should add to my list considering that the numbers went up for a few of my target schools and they turned into reaches. I want to keep my list at 20-25 schools and around 5-6 reaches so any input helps!

Male, 21, CA, Mexican, attend a UC, 4th year Neuroscience Major
cGPA:3.71 (projected: i had a very strong upward trend=2 years of 3.92-4.0)
sGPA: 3.73
MCAT: 512 (130/125/130/127)
Substantial life experience in that i was born premature, have a hypoplastic lung, had an infection in the other lung and some how made it out lol more to it but theres a good reason for why medicine!
EC's:

• President of schools cooking club, host food demos and got funding of $20,000 from head of UC system to address food insecurity on campus and community. We also collaborate with other orgs and do PB&J drives fro homeless around the area (2 years)
• Member of neuroscience program that teaches elementary and high school students about the brain (1 year)
• Private tutor for high school students, paid work experience (4 years)
• Medical Scholars Program Tutor, organic chemistry (1 year)
• Mentored at my old high school, gave talks about college, tutored STEM and AP classes (2 years)
• EMT-B certified
• 50 hours shadowing (ENT, Anesthesia, OBGYN) will get about 20 more hrs of primary care shadowing
• about 150 hours volunteering at local hospital
• 3 months at free health clinic (30-40 hours)
• 2 years psychology research with a poster presentation that won first place at school research symposium, potential 2nd author in school journal (Great LOR)
• 1 year neuroscience research with prof who taught me, potential poster/author on paper(Great LOR)

Gap year (potential plans): substitute teach (for money), continue tutoring, position as a lab tech at Loma Linda Hospital (paid research) with poster presentation at the end

School List:
UCR
University of Arizona
Wake Forest
Loyola Stritch
UC Davis
Virginia Commonwealth
Oregon Health and Science
Indiana University
Creighton
Temple
Drexel
Penn State
Tufts
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of Miami
University of Massachusetts
UCI
SUNY Downstate
Hofstra
Geisel SOM at Dartmouth
USC
UCLA
UCSF
University of Pittsburgh
Boston University

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