Help With School List 3.8 GPA 517 MCAT

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Hello, I'd love to receive some help with finalizing a school list. I'm trying to apply to a maximum of 35 schools. I do have some public schools in the list but I made sure that they had a decent amount of OOS portion of the class. Thank you!

  1. GPA
    • cGPA: 3.83
    • sGPA: 3.77
  2. MCAT
    • 517 (130/128/128/131)
  3. State of residence
    • CA
  4. Ethnicity/Race
    • ORM
  5. Undergraduate Institution
    • Top 15 National
  6. Clinical Experience
    • 100 hours hospice
    • 100 hours hospital
    • 1700 Americorps at FQHC (blend of health education, medical assistant role, as well as helped with social needs like food or voucher programs)
    • 100 hours vaccine clinic
    • 100 hours international service trip medical clinic
  7. Research Experience
    • 300 hours> 1 group poster and pub in undergrad journal
    • 400 hours> only presented data to mentor
  8. Shadowing
    • ~50 hrs across anesthesiology, family med, emergency med
  9. Non-clinical volunteering
    • 200 hours food pantry/soup kitchen
    • 50 hours homeless shelter
    • 50 hours blood drive volunteer
  10. Extracurricular activities
    • Semester of TA
    • President of Global Health club 2 years, service trip leader of same club
    • secretary, treasurer, of some other clubs with less involvement
  11. 2 Gap Years
School list
1 USC
2 UC davis
3 UCSF
4 UC Irvine
5 UCSD
6 UCLA
7 Kaiser
8 Stanford
9 California Northstate
10 California University of science and medicine
11 UC Riverside
12 Einstein
13 Columbia
14 Hofstra
15 Sinai
16 NYMC
17 Kimmel
18 Geisinger
19 Temple
20 Drexel
21 UVA
22 Boston
23 Emory
24 University Colorado
25 Georgetown
26 loyola
27 Rush
28 Rosalind Franklind
29 Northwestern
30 Rochester
31 George Washington
32 Umass Chan
33 Wake forest
34 Cornell
35 Uchicago
36 NYU
37 Duke
38 WashU
39 Mayo
40 UMich
41 University Maryland
42 Quinnipiac
43 Miami
44 USF Morsani
45 Medical college Wisconsin
46 Virginia commonwealth
47 Stony brook
48 Suny Downstate
49 Arizona Tucson
50 Arizona Phoenix
51 EVMS
52 Cincinatti
53 Ohio state
54 Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson
55. University pittsburg
56 albany
57 Penn State

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Remove California Northstate since they have accreditation problems. I suggest these schools from your list:
USC
2 UC davis
3 UCSF
4 UC Irvine
5 UCSD
6 UCLA
7 Kaiser
8 Stanford
10 California University of science and medicine
11 UC Riverside (only if you are from that region)
12 Einstein
13 Columbia
14 Hofstra
15 Sinai
16 NYMC
17 Kimmel
19 Temple
20 Drexel
21 UVA
22 Boston
23 Emory
24 University Colorado
25 Georgetown
26 loyola
27 Rush
28 Rosalind Franklin
29 Northwestern
30 Rochester
31 George Washington
33 Wake forest
34 Cornell
35 Uchicago
36 NYU
37 Duke
39 Mayo
40 UMich
42 Quinnipiac
43 Miami
44 USF Morsani
45 Medical college Wisconsin
46 Virginia commonwealth
51 EVMS
52 Cincinnati
53 Ohio state
55. University Pittsburgh
56 Albany
 
If you desire only 35, I would further cut it to the following:

1 USC
2 UC davis
3 UCSF
4 UC Irvine
5 UCSD
6 UCLA
7 Kaiser
11 UC Riverside (only if you are from that region)
12 Einstein
14 Hofstra
15 Sinai
17 Kimmel
19 Temple
21 UVA
22 Boston
23 Emory
24 University Colorado
25 Georgetown
30 Rochester
31 George Washington
33 Wake forest
35 Uchicago
37 Duke
39 Mayo
40 UMich
42 Quinnipiac
43 Miami
44 USF Morsani
45 Medical college Wisconsin
46 Virginia commonwealth
51 EVMS
52 Cincinnati
53 Ohio state

Add:
Dartmouth
Vermont
SLU
Creighton
 
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