I'm making my list of schools, help plz

[rockaction]

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Never thought I'd make one of these threads, but I am now!

MCAT (4/18): 35Q (PS11/VR10/BS14)
CUMUL. GPA: 3.97
BCMP GPA: 4.00
Molecular Biology major
Ohio resident

As far as EC's go...
--Founding member of a club, vice president
--TA'd a lab for one semester, tutored for two semesters
--Worked since 2007 at a clinical diagnostics company
--Doing research this summer at a top-20 medical school
--Won the Organic Chemistry departmental award for the 2008-2009 academic year
--Medical spring break trip to Guatemala in 2009
--Limited shadowing, limited volunteering (~20 hours)
--Fun non-academic stuff like playing in local bands

I feel like my numbers are solid, but I'm worried about my really limited volunteering and shadowing. I have some on the books, but it's not like I've been marathoning since freshman year and have a 5,000 hours. I got my MCAT back this week (4/18 test) and with my 35 I'm not sure where I should apply.

Current list:

Ohio schools
Ohio State
University of Cincinnati
Case Western
Wright State ("safety")
Toledo ("safety")

Non-Ohio schools
University of North Carolina (screened secondary)
Wake Forest
Vanderbilt (top choice)

What would be other schools I should add to the list? I'm not sure what the limitations of my application are. Thanks!

 

[JJMrK]

20 hours of volunteering might hurt you. What did you do at the clinical diagnostics company?

 

[rockaction]

Designed and executed protocols/experiments in the Validations department of a company that makes test kits for pathogens for hospitals. I worked on setting expiration dates for some biological components in a viral diagnostic kit. It was pretty cool work that is *somewhat* relevant but it's not like I was working in a hospital. I wrote and executed like 15-20 internal protocols for the company.

And about volunteering - at what point do they really care?

 

[JJMrK]

Designed and executed protocols/experiments in the Validations department of a company that makes test kits for pathogens for hospitals. I worked on setting expiration dates for some biological components in a viral diagnostic kit. It was pretty cool work that is *somewhat* relevant but it's not like I was working in a hospital. I wrote and executed like 15-20 internal protocols for the company.

And about volunteering - at what point do they really care?

I don't know, I've heard people say 100 hours. You need to be able to tell someone why you want to go into medicine. Your medical mission trip might cover you there in terms of clinical exposure to patients.