Help with school list?

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Stats:
GPA: 3.6 with upward trend (3.39 -> 3.32 -> 3.75 -> 3.97) sGPA: 3.5
MCAT: 514 (jan 2018) -> 518 (sept 2018)
highly ranked Ivy+ undergrad

100+ hours volunteering in a hospital (patient care included)
3 years volunteering teaching high school students about safe sex and drugs
~50 hours shadowing
2 years research in college, 1 year research full time the point at which i apply --> 3-4 publications by the time i apply

NY resident

current list:
Albert Einstein
Boston University
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Drexel
Duke
Emory
George Washington
Georgetown
Harvard
Hofstra (?)
Michigan
Mt. Sinai
Northwestern
NYMC
NYU
Stanford
Stony Brook
SUNY Downstate
Tufts
UChicago
UCLA
UCSF JMP(?)
USC


random/unsorted list of "maybes" (i'd like to add ~3 of these)
Rochester
Yale
Temple
Thomas Jefferson
UPenn
UIC
Rush
Case Western
Tulane
Vanderbuilt
Tulane
Brown

any thoughts about which of these "maybes" might be a good addition? i definitely want to be in a city (which is why i'm skeptical about Hofstra) but also don't want to overload on high reaches and underload on low reaches/targets

thank you!

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Why on earth did you retake a perfectly good 514 MCAT score????

Of your list, I recommend
Albert Einstein
Boston University
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Drexel
Duke
Emory
Harvard
Hofstra
Michigan
Mt. Sinai
Northwestern
NYU
Stanford
Stony Brook
SUNY Downstate
UChicago
UCSF
USC
Rochester
Yale
Thomas Jefferson
Case Western
Tulane
Vanderbilt
Tulane
ADD ALL SUNYs
U VM
U Cincy
Get in more clinical volunteering.
 
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