Help narrow school list?

[DocKoozmin]

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Very brief resume:
Florida Resident, non URM
4.00 514 (131/124/129/130)
2 Research labs, no pubs but 1 very strong letter
400+ hours clinical volunteering at both hospital and free clinic for underserved. Also volunteered on ambulances
Decent nonclinical volunteering (~150 hours), mainly with underserved as well
80 hours shadowing in surgery
TA for gen chem for 3 years (very strong letter here)
Small part time job as well

I will apply to all Florida schools (including NOVA MD), and I need help with the rest. I'm scared that my CARS score will limit me, but I've been told to not retake a 514. Here's what I have so far.

1. Quinnipiac
2. Tufts
3. New York Medical College
4. Hofstra
5. Einstein
6. Seton Hall
7. Drexel
8. Temple
9. Jefferson
10. George Washington
11. Oakland Beaumont
12. Western Michigan
13. Medical College Wisconsin
14. Rosalind Franklin
15. Loyola
16. St. Louis
17. Tulane
18. Wake Forest
19. Dartmouth
20. Brown
21. Rush
22. Albany
23. Wayne State
24. Ohio State
25. Ann Arbor
26. Eastern Virginia
27. Iowa
28. Louisville
29. Cincinnati
30. Penn State
31. Michigan State
32. Mount Sinai
33. Emory
34. Larner-Vermont
35. Colorado
36. Uconn
37. Upitt
38. Virginia commonwealth
39. Wright state
40. Case

 

[Faha]

You could remove many of the state public schools that strongly favor their own residents such as Wright State, UConn, Michigan State, Louisville, Iowa. Also Case Western, Mount Sinai, Emory, Brown, U Michigan, Ohio State are reaches.

 

[DocKoozmin]

You could remove many of the state public schools that strongly favor their own residents such as Wright State, UConn, Michigan State, Louisville, Iowa. Also Case Western, Mount Sinai, Emory, Brown, U Michigan, Ohio State are reaches.

Thanks! BTW, what makes a lot of those schools a reach? Do they screen CARS or something? Like the MSAR has Emory at 3.8 and 515, and I think I'm at least in the 25-75 for most/all of those schools.

 

[Faha]

Thanks! BTW, what makes a lot of those schools a reach? Do they screen CARS or something? Like the MSAR has Emory at 3.8 and 515, and I think I'm at least in the 25-75 for most/all of those schools.

Yes, but those numbers include legacies, those who attended the undergraduate school, URM, veterans. All of whom will be given preference over you. For example 40% of Brown's class is from their own undergraduates.