Medical How should I prioritize secondaries?

[tantacles]

This will (hopefully) be my final neurotic post and I'm sorry to annoy you again expert team of SDN. I need some opinions on which secondaries I should prioritize/my chances at getting admitted to an MD/PhD | MSTP | MD program. It is looking like I will have to ask my family for money to submit secondaries and I don't want to do that (I just graduated and ran into a difficult financial situation but I will figure it out).

I'm sorry to freak out but I need some help with this. I am scared that my past decisions are going to screw up my newfound life goals. My biggest concerns are my MCAT and GPA. I have been receiving competing opinions from different forums on how these will be viewed. Some state my MCAT is in the ballpark of these schools while others say it is too low. Some state that I will be cut some slack on my GPA because what is weighing it down are my stats from high school, others seem impartial towards college and high school GPA.

Stats:
Upward GPA trend from high school onward
BCPM GPA: 3.65 | (High school: 2.57 Freshman: 3.83 Sophomore: 3.75 Junior: 3.75 Senior: 4.0)
Non BCPM: 3.89 | (High school: 3.33 Freshman: 4.0 Sophomore: 3.93 Junior: 4.0 Senior: 4.0)
Cumulative GPA: 3.76 | (High school: 2.91 Freshman: 3.88 Sophomore: 3.84 Junior: 3.88 Senior: 4.0)
MCAT: 517 (130/126/131/130)
Not URM

Activities/awards:
Student Residence Hall assistant (1 year): 300hr
Volunteered at a hospice (2 years): 200hr
Volunteer tutor for children from low SES (2 years): 200hr
Shadowed a MD/PhD in the clinic (4 months): 100hr
Research (3 years): 4000hr (~16 publications(abstracts/posters/journals), 2 journal publications 1 of which I am the first author)
Paid research (starts at the end of August 2020): 2000hrs (Should result in a handful of papers, publishing a paper I have been working on for about 1 year)
Granted summer research stipends for 3 summers ($10000 total, 85% of funds went into funding my projects, the rest was used for housing)

I have received some assistance from Goro (thank you so much) to refine my school list and I have excluded schools where my stats fall outside of the 10th percentiles of admitted applicants.

I can probably afford to send secondaries to 10 schools and then eat spaghetti and PB&J's for a month before my job begins.
Schools:
Albert Einstein
Boston University
Case Western
Columbia University
Duke
Emory*
Dartmouth
Harvard*
Mt. Sinai
USC Keck*
Northwestern
Stanford*
UCI
UCLA*
UCSF*
UChicago
University of Cincinnati
University of Florida*
University of Iowa Carver
University of Massachusetts
University of Michigan*
University of Pittsburgh*
University of Washington (WWAMI applicant)
Vanderbilt
Cornell
Yale*

*I have worked with or repeatedly met researchers from these specific schools at conferences

Thank you for your assistance and I'm sorry for being the stereotypical paranoid premed.

Looks good. Not worried. The sky's the limit. Your applications are very top heavy, but I think that's ok given your stats. I think given how top heavy things are, applying to this many schools is a good idea. If everything else on your application is good, you have a great shot.

 

[Goro]

Keep in mind that chances of admission are 100% on you. We can only advise on chances for interviews.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Why not start with the schools where you note an asterisk?

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Looks great! As Goro said, you need to crush your interviews to get a spot. Make sure you put as much effort into practicing interviewing that you did studying for your MCAT/grades.

Good luck!

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Hello again thebonedoctah, I will do my best to find some friends to practice with. This is definitely something I need to work on as I have trouble streamlining my thoughts when I'm put on the spot in an interview setting. Thank you for your reply.

Absolutely. What I did to practice was I looked up probably 50+ medical school interview questions online, wrote out answers to them in bullet form so that you know what points you want to hit, and then literally practice, practice, practice to the point where you know the points you want to hit when you get asked so 100% of your effort and brainpower can go to talking fluently instead of trying to come up with something on the spot.