School list for merit aid

[amphibianiceberg]

Hi, I posted previously and am returning with a revised list. Please do not quote.

1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: cGPA/sGPA - 3.99/3.98
2. MCAT: 524
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): WA
4. Ethnicity and/or race: ORM
5. Undergraduate institution or category: Non HYP Ivy
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 600+ hours MA, 100 hours hospice
7. Research experience and productivity: second author pub, first author pub in revision, 2 posters, co-first author manuscript in the works
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: GI, gas, primary care, EM, rad onc
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 300+ hours founding a public benefits hotline for local underserved pop. This is one of the most meaningful activities.
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): was a monk, co-founded an AI/medical startup that made it far in YCombinator. Gap years in top consulting firm. Studied computational biology + linguistics.
11. Relevant honors or awards: summa cum laude, random undergrad research awards
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important: It is important to me to graduate with minimal debt given that my opportunity cost from switching careers is already very high. I want to add schools to my list where I have a good chance of getting merit aid. I know Hofstra and Quinnipiac have this reputation, but any others? Also, is it worth applying to UCLA/UCSF/UCSD given OOS?

Here's my current list:
Chicago
Columbia
Duke
Harvard
Hopkins
Icahn-Sinai
NYU
Penn
Stanford
Wash U
Yale
Brown
Case Western
Cornell
Dartmouth
Mayo
Northwestern
UPitt
UW
Vanderbilt
Einstein
Emory
Georgetown
Rochester
UMiami
USC
MC Wisconsin
WSU
Hofstra
Jefferson
Tulane
Kaiser
Cincinatti
Baylor
Tufts
UCSD

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[wysdoc]

Welcome @amphibianiceberg
Please post only one WAMC thread and hold it open for at least a week or more so members & experts can respond.
Keep your additional questions & comments in this thread too.
But, I don't see a previous post from you.
It will help those who want to comment on your list if you give an indication of what you look for in a school (urban/suburban, clinical/research, etc.)

 

[amphibianiceberg]

Bumping this!

 

[ClashRoyaleKing]

You have a really solid application and list. I'm not sure how much aid out-of-state public schools will give you though. Your list is really long, I'd trim it down. I'm not sure which to cut outside of the ones you are far above in stats: Tulane and MCW.