Help with School List (519 MCAT, 3.92 GPA)

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Hello, thanks for taking a look! I am trying to finalize my school list. Here is all my info, let me know what you think about my school list, whether I should add/drop schools or any other advice.

Year in school: Graduated May 2015

Country/state of residence: MA

Major/GPA: BS in Psychology (Neuroscience track), minors in Biology and German, cGPA: 3.88, sGPA: 3.93

MCAT Scores: 519 (128/130/129/132) -- old MCAT: 32 in 2013

Research – Currently working full-time as a clinical research assistant (started in Jan, ~1000 hours so far). No publications or abstracts, more coordinating and hands-on clinical work with patients.

Volunteering (clinical) – 20 hours at an assisted living facility, 100 hours at an adult day care center. Volunteered as an EMT on the medical team for 4 road races so far this year, and will continue with these events.

Physician shadowing: Through working as a scribe / research assistant

Non-clinical volunteering: 40 hrs gathering/distributing food and goods donations from businesses and farms to local community members in need. 2 semesters (~84 hrs) as board member of student run Autism Speaks group on campus.

Extracurricular activities: Semester study abroad in Germany. I am very active in the outdoors (hiking, rock climbing, skiing, etc.) part of student outdoors group during college, wilderness first aid certification, did a 2 month trip climbing/hiking in Europe last summer, and have spent a good amount of time traveling. Other hobbies/interests such as mindfulness, drumming (played in a band for many years) and now mostly enjoy african hand drumming. Currently working towards playing with a performance group.

Employment history: 5 semesters working as a tutor in college (~700 hours) in bio, chem, orgo, physics, calc, and neuroscience. 14 months working full-time as an ED scribe after graduation (~2000 hours). 11 months working training new scribes, 2 months starting up a new scribe program at a different hospital, and 6 months as a Quality Assurance Specialist. 2 years working part-time at a rock climbing gym (still working there, ~600 hours).

Strong letters of rec from research supervisor, ED physician, professor, employer, and volunteer coordinator.

School list:

Reach: Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins

High: UVA, Vanderbilt, Mayo (both), UCSF, UCSD,

Mid: Dartmouth, Rochester, Wisconsin, OHSU, Colorado, Tufts, BU,

Low/State: UMass, UVM, Wake forest, West Virginia, Arizona (Tuscon)

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I suggest the following:
Wash U

U Chicago

U Penn

NYU

Vanderbilt

Columbia
Sinai
Cornell

Northwestern

Case

Harvard

Yale

Stanford

JHU

U VA

U MI

U AZ
U VM

U WI
U Cincy

Ohio State

U IA
UCSF

UCLA,
Miami
Tulane
Albert Einstein

Emory
BU
USC/Keck
Mayo

Rochester

Dartmouth
Duke

Pitt
Hofstra

Your state school
 
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