School list critique please URM, CA, 3.75 cGPA, 3.70 sGPA, 517 MCAT

[particularfig]

Hi all, I'm getting ready to submit and would appreciate any input on my school list. I have 45 schools right now and am trying to knock that down to 35ish. Please let me know if I should get rid of any or consider other schools, though I'm pretty dead set on applying to CA schools. Stats:
White/Hispanic, CA, CC -> UC, 3.75 GPA, 517 MCAT, strong clinical, volunteering, and shadowing but ZERO research.

Albany Medical College Boston University School of Medicine California Northstate University College of Medicine California University of Science and Medicine-School of Medicine Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science Creighton University School of Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Indiana University School of Medicine Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California Medical College of Wisconsin Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont Saint Louis University School of Medicine Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Tufts University School of Medicine Tulane University School of Medicine University of California, Davis, School of Medicine University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Riverside School of Medicine University of California, San Diego School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine University of Central Florida College of Medicine University of Colorado School of Medicine University of Connecticut School of Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine University of Kansas School of Medicine University of Kansas School of Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School University of Michigan Medical School University of Minnesota Medical School University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry USF Health Morsani College of Medicine Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Thank you!

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[Faha]

You could remove these schools:
U Mass
U Conn
Minnesota
U Kansas
Northwestern
UC Riverside (unless you are from that region)
Buffalo
Geisinger

 

[Gaucho97]

Hey! I have a very similar story to you (white/hispanic, CC transfer and no research experience) and similar stats (very close GPAs and slightly lower MCAT). I applied this past cycle and received 7 interview invites with no research experience. My honest opinion is that most top 20 programs aren't going to offer you an invite unless you have a really compelling or unique application (think olympic athlete) if you have no research experience. If you look on the MSAR most of these top programs have 97-99% of their class that participated in research prior to starting medical school with the exceptions likely being non-traditional career changers.

I spoke to Morsani COM's dean of admissions and they do not interview individuals without research experience. I would def remove the programs that @Faha suggested to remove along with IU, FAU and Illinois (their OOS tuition is like 100K). I would also add Hofstra