School list help 3.72/517 IL ORM

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25-year-old male, Asian, T20 Undergrad. Chicago Resident. First Gen immigrant

3 gap years in the private sector doing statistical consulting, decided to go become premed again and finished my pre-req (only Orgo II left).

• Major: Econ
• cGPA/sGPA: 3.7/3.7
• MCAT: 517 (130/130/128/129)
• Letters of Rec
  • 1 from senior thesis econ advisor,
  • 1 from an econ professor (kind of a big name in healthcare policies, not sure if she's household name though),
  • 2 from Gen Chem and Orgo.
  • I might ask for another from my boss, TBD.
• Nonclinical Hours:
  • Volunteered to analyze data at a racial justice advocacy in undergrad: 100 hrs.
  • after graduation I started to volunteer at a local church, mix of advocacy and homeless shelter: 50 hours
  • Total: 150 ish.
• Clinical Hours:
  • Companionship with Alzheimer Patients: ~50 hours
  • Showed patients around hospital: 80 hours
  • emergency room (stocking gloves and stuff): 120 hours
  • Cardiac Rehab (take blood pressure): 80 hours
  • Total: 330 hrs
• Research - primarily econ based cuz I was considering econ grad school
  • Data entry for a professor on econ environmental policies: 100 hours
  • Cleaned data for a research group based in law school: 100 hours
  • Senior thesis on healthcare economics - about 150 hrs?
  • No pubs or posters
    • there was a poster for honors dinner, I don't think that counts?
  • Total: 350 hrs
• Shadowing
  • 50 hours with orthopedic surgeon in Japan
  • 25 hours with pediatrician in America
  • Total: 75 hrs
• other ECs
  • Resident Assistant in my junior year
  • Teaching Assistant in my senior year
• School List - roughly based on admit.org
  • Reach
    • Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science College of Medicine
    • Drexel College of Medicine
    • Emory
    • University of Miami
    • Colorado
    • University of Cincinnati
    • Tufts
    • George Washington (I think my hours are low?)
  • Target
    • University of Illinois
    • Western Michigan
    • Quinnipiac University
    • Virginia Commonwealth
    • Temple University
    • Eastern Virginia
    • University of Vermont
    • Texas Christian University
    • Oakland University
    • Virginia Tech
    • Wake Forest
  • Baseline
    • Rosalind Franklin
    • Southern Illinois University
    • Albany Medical College
    • Medical College of Wisconsin
    • Penn State University
  • Other schools I am considering since I went to high school in Georgia
    • Mercer
    • Medical College of Georgia
  • Schools I feel obligated to apply since my significant other is in the area
    • Rush
    • Loyola