School list help (Music major, 516, 3.99 sGPA and cGPA)

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I am wondering if my list is well-rounded enough? Are there any you suggest getting rid of or adding? Thank you everyone for your help and advice!

• State/Country of Residence: Kentucky
• Ties to other States/Regions: Florida, Wisconsin
• Year in School: Junior
• Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Vocal performance (Bachelors of Music) with minors in biology and chemistry
• Graduate Degrees (if applicable): N/A
• Cumulative GPA: 3.99
• Science GPA: 3.99
• MCAT Score(s): 516 (129/130/127/130)
• Research Experience: 1 year in clinical psychology (promoted from individual study student to research assistant), 2 semesters in linguistic psychology with second author paper, current research in muscular biophysics with third author paper (~600 hours total)
• Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. First author, second author, etc.): first author poster presented at two conferences on pediatric psychology, second author paper in Memory and Cognition, third author paper in Journal of Cell Muscle Research and Cell Motility
• Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): ~150 hours volunteering at hospital, ~150 hours at daycare for kids with mental and physical disabilities, ~30 hours sing for patients undergoing chemotherapy
• Physician Shadowing: (~130 total hours) pediatrics, electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, internal medicine, pathology, neonatology
• Non-Clinical Volunteering: I am the National Projects Manager of a 501(c)(3) non-profit (500 hours) that provides artistic and musical opportunities to underserved populations, created the Arts for Alzheimer's project at a hospital (100 hours), leadership- president of the chapter of this non-profit at my university
• Other Extracurricular Activities: Being a music major, I have participated in musical theatre and opera productions (600 hours). I also sing in choir which goes on tours abroad (100 hours). I have won many vocal performance awards for both musical theatre and opera.
• Other Employment History: Worked on an organic farm for two summers (480 hours), work part-time as a babysitter (200 hours), worked at a summer camp for children with special needs as a substitute music therapist (80 hours)
• *LORS: have great letters from music faculty, organic chemistry professor and laboratory professor, all research mentors, volunteering program director, two physicians, and prominent English professor from a Shakespeare class
• Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): Uncle is OBGYN, close family friend OBGYN
• Specialty of Interest (if applicable): pediatrics or cardiology
• Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): possibly
• Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): N (more interest in urban health)
• Medical School List:
• UChicago
• Columbia
• Harvard
• University of Michigan (connection)
• University of Kentucky (state school)
• University of Louisville (state school)
• Boston University
• University of Cincinnati
• Ohio State
• Duke
• Emory
• University of Wisconsin- Madison (family connection)
• Vanderbilt
• Brown
• Northwestern
• NYU
• Stanford
• Mayo Clinic (family connection)
• University of Pittsburgh
• UCSF
• Yale
• UPenn
• Cornell
• Case Western
• UF (connection)
• Tufts

 

[Faha]

You should receive several interviews from your list. You could add any of these schools:
Rochester
Miami
Tulane
St. Louis

 

[music-medicine]

You should receive several interviews from your list. You could add any of these schools:
Rochester
Miami
Tulane
St. Louis

Thank you very much for your feedback!