School list help 3.5 cGPA, 3.46 sGPA, 522 MCAT, CA applicant

[Pico25]

27 years old, CA resident, first time applicant
cGPA is 3.5 and sGPA 3.46 (flat trend) from UC Santa Cruz graduated 2015
MCAT in 2020 was 522, so a LizzyM score of ~74.
Several hundred hours volunteering, mostly clinical (COVID testing and vaccination), but some at food banks as well
40hrs shadowing
Working primarily in biotech since 2015 (4 years bench science at 3 different biotech companies as well as internships in labs as an undergrad)
2 publications
Experience teaching/tutoring

Here's what I have at the moment:

California Northstate University College of Medicine	CA
California University of Science and Medicine	CA
Keck School of Medicine at USC	CA
Stanford School of Medicine	CA
UC Davis	CA
UC Irvine	CA
UCLA Geffen	CA
UC Riverside	CA
UC San Diego	CA
UCSF	CA
Albany Medical College	NY
Albert Einstien College of Medicine	NY
Zucker at Hofstra	NY
East Virginia	VA
Icahn at Mount Sinai	NY
Jacobs at Buffalo	NY
New York Medical College	NY
Larner at Vermont	VT
Kimmel at Thomas Jefferson	PA
State University New York Downstate	NY
Tufts	MA
Emory	GA
Tulane	LA
University Miami	FL
University Pittsburgh	PA
University of Washington	WA
Washington State	WA
Oregon Health and Science	OR
University of Colorado	CO
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University	CT

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[Faha]

Remove U Washington since they accept less than 1% of applicants who are not from states in the Northwest. Washington State, Oregon. SUNY Downstate and Buffalo also accept few non residents with no connection to the state. You could add these schools:
Western Michigan
TCU-UNT
USF Morsani
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Seton Hall
Rochester
Case Western
Cincinnati
Vermont

 

[Banco]

On top of Faha’s suggestions, I’d look into schools that are research powerhouses where your GPA is close to or above the 10th percentile. These would be reaches still but your extensive research experience will be helpful there. Ex. Duke, Vanderbilt, Cornell etc.

 

[Pico25]

Remove U Washington since they accept less than 1% of applicants who are not from states in the Northwest. Washington State, Oregon. SUNY Downstate and Buffalo also accept few non residents with no connection to the state. You could add these schools:
Western Michigan
TCU-UNT
USF Morsani
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Seton Hall
Rochester
Case Western
Cincinnati
Vermont

Thank you so much! With all those schools I would be around 40. The advice I've seen for CA applicants is to aim for 25-30 schools. How important would you say it is to try to trim the list to get closer to that number? I realize med school admissions are more competitive than ever, so I want to maximize my chances, but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot. (Although to be honest it's not exactly clear to me the biggest downside of applying to to many, is it the cost or being overwhelmed by secondaries?)

 

[Faha]

If you remove the ones I suggested and add the ones I recommended then you would have 35 schools. It is mainly the time needed to complete the secondaries that is the obstacle to applying to so many schools.