Help with school list please

[Ummm]

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California resident (not sure this matters for MD/PhD?)

Graduating from decent University of California School

GPA: 3.99 (Summa Cum Laude)

MCAT 34 (12PS,11V,11BS)

2 years research experience with one of the summers at a medical college and another summer received an undergraduate research award

Should have a paper submitted by the time I apply on which I will be a co-first author

~45 hrs shadowing an MD/PhD whose lab I worked in for the summer and 120 hours volunteering at nursing home

Registered EMT-b

Here is my school list so far, hoping to decide soon so I can start working on secondaries ahead of time!

Do you think I have decent shot at getting into an ok number of these schools? I am worried that I may be setting my sights a little too high (the bottom grouping is certainly the reach cluster, but I mean for my "safety" and "competitive" schools also).

University of Rochester
Indiana-Purdue
UC- Davis
Brown
Baylor
MC Wisconsin
University of Illinois at Chicago
U of Maryland
Oregon
U of Wisconsin
UC Irvine
Illinois - Urbana Champaign
UT San Antonio
Colorado - Denver
U of Minnesota
North Carolina Chapel Hill
Darthmouth
U of Massachusetts (worcester)
U of Iowa
Albert Einstein College of Med
Mayo
Pitt/Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
Boston University
Ohio State
Emory
Virginia Commonwealth
Washington (seattle)
UCSD
U of Virginia
UCLA/Cal tech
UCSF
Columbia
Cornell Tri-I
University of Chicago
Washington (St. Louis)

 

[Fencer]

State of residency does not matter for MD/PhD. Your strong GPA, paired with good experiences will make you a good candidate across the board. If I am not mistaken the U of IL-Chicago is the med school for U of IL-Urbana Champaign program.

 

[Reckoner]

Based on the information you've provided, 36 schools seems like overkill. I would cut at least ten programs off that list, unless there is some red flag in your application that you haven't mentioned.

 

[Patros]

What field are you most interested in? You can narrow down the list based on what schools match your interests the best.

Also if you have no regional preference, you might as well apply to the MSTPs with no app fee, such as UMass (you already have it) and Vanderbilt.

 

[Ummm]

Based on the information you've provided, 36 schools seems like overkill. I would cut at least ten programs off that list, unless there is some red flag in your application that you haven't mentioned.

There is no red flag in my application aside from my horrendous personality (just kidding), but I am a little scared to apply to too small of a pool of schools. Does the balance between schools I have a good shot at and reach schools seem appropriate?