School list advice !!!

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14PS 13 BS 8 VR
3.81 cGPA and sGPA from state university.

2 years hospital volunteer experiences
60 hours non-clinical volunteer
25 hours ER doctor shadowing.

2 years undergrad research -presented at national level conference.
NIH postbac research.

school list

Albany
Albert Einstein
Columbia
Dartmouth
Drexel
Emory
George Washington
Georgetown
Harvard
Jefferson
Johns Hopkins
Mayo
MCW
New York Medical College
NYU
Pennsylvania State
Saint Louis
Stanford
Buffalo
UCSF
Penn
Rochester
Vanderbilt
WashU
Cornell
Yale

Total 27 schools

Any advice or changes?

THank you in advance !

Advice:

Did you check the MSAR for the bottom tenth percentile for VS for each school you're applying to? I'd be sure that a good number of the schools on your list have a 7 or 8 for that number. I'm not saying you should remove all those with 9s and 10s, only that plenty of schools should be reasonable choices for your stats range.

I also suggest you continue to gain weekly nonmedical community service hours, add some additional shadowing, ideally to include a primary care doc, and look for a leadership or teaching opportunity to engage in through the application year. Let schools know about these activities via Secondary essays, update letters, or interview conversations to help shore up some of the weak areas in your application and hopefully sway adcomms positively to consider your application.