School list help for fairly strong stats, weak ECs

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Hi,
I'm new to SDN so hopefully I'm doing this correctly, and I'd appreciate any guidance. I'm planning on applying to around 30 schools and this is what I have on my list so far. Any schools on here I should replace or add to the list would be helpful.

cGPA: 3.99
sGPA: 4
MCAT: 519
Asian female at UCLA. From CA.

600 hours clinical volunteering
300 hours research, poster presentation
70 hours shadowing
0 hours non-clinical volunteering... :/
Regents Scholar, Achievement Scholar
Some hobbies

Current list:

Columbia

Johns Hopkins

Harvard

UCLA

UCSD

UCSF

Yale

Mt. Sinai

Stanford

UCI

University of Michigan

USC

WUSTL

Emory

George Washington

Hofstra

St. Louis

UC Davis

UC Riverside

Rochester

Albert Einstein

Northwestern

NYU

Thank you in advance! 🙂

 

[Dream of the Endless]

Genuine question, why did you choose to ignore non-clinical volunteering? And are you prepared for the possibility of an interviewer bringing that up? Amazing application otherwise.

 

[Faha]

I suggest adding these schools:
Kaiser
California University
Mayo Arizona
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
Case Western
Western Michigan
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth

 

[Goro]

0 hours non-clinical volunteering... :/

If you wanna aim high, you gotta have evidence of service to others less fortunate than yourself.

 

[Detraction]

Genuine question, why did you choose to ignore non-clinical volunteering? And are you prepared for the possibility of an interviewer bringing that up? Amazing application otherwise.

This was not intentional and I'm definitely going to try to involve myself with that now, even though it's very late. 🙁

@Goro thank you for the input! Am I aiming too high? Do you have recommendations on how I should adjust my list? I honestly don't feel like I know what I'm doing. And I'll try and work on that aspect of my application now even though I understand it's late.

Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Harvard
UCLA
UCSF
UCSD
Yale
Mt. Sinai
Stanford
UCI
University of Michigan
USC
WUSTL
Emory
George Washington
Hofstra
UC Davis
UC Riverside
Rochester
Albert Einstein
Northwestern
NYU
Kaiser
California University
Mayo Arizona
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
Case Western
Virginia Commonwealth
Vanderbilt
Cornell

 

[Goro]

This was not intentional and I'm definitely going to try to involve myself with that now, even though it's very late. 🙁

@Goro thank you for the input! Am I aiming too high? Do you have recommendations on how I should adjust my list? I honestly don't feel like I know what I'm doing. And I'll try and work on that aspect of my application now even though I understand it's late.

Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Harvard
UCLA
UCSF
UCSD
Yale
Mt. Sinai
Stanford
UCI
University of Michigan
USC
WUSTL
Emory
George Washington
Hofstra
UC Davis
UC Riverside
Rochester
Albert Einstein
Northwestern
NYU
Kaiser
California University
Mayo Arizona
Jefferson
Pittsburgh
Case Western
Virginia Commonwealth
Vanderbilt
Cornell

You're aiming too high with the ECs you have now. People who get into the Really Top Schools have hundreds, if not even 1000s of hours of clinical and or non-clinical experiences. I worry that you will be crowded out by better candidates.

 

[Walter Raleigh]

Perhaps OP might consider a gap year with Americorps or similar: this would make them into a decent candidate for the top-20 schools.