WAMC 3.85GPA 517MCAT Review my school list!

[Timespace12]

Hello all. I am currently a senior in undergrad and working on developing my school list. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated!

cGPA: 3.85
sGPA: 3.90
Some of my high school grades unfortunately messed up my cGPA.

MCAT: 517 (128/127/131/131)
State of residence: IN
Race: Arabic (White)
Undergraduate Institution: Standard state school
Clinical Experience:

• 100 hours of patient escort in a hospital
• 100 hours CNA in an old-persons home
• 50 hours doing triage in an overseas clinic (I know its not the best experience with voluntourism and all, but I was a naive freshman, I didn't know any better).

Research Experience:

• 1,000 hours in a cancer lab. Working on second author manuscript, should be accepted in time for applications.
• 500 hours in a fly lab. No papers or posters to show for this.

Shadowing:

• ~50 hours pediatrics
• ~100 hours in different sub-specialties (I haven't broken them down yet because this was a while ago) **note the 100 hours in different sub-specialties was done overseas**

Non-clinical Volunteering:

• ~100 hours tutoring foreign born English language learning students at a local preschool
• ~100 hours working for a family shelter
• ~100 hours working for a high school for adults helping adults get their GEDs.

Tutoring:
TA in an inorganic chemistry course for a year.
Other:
Vice president of fundraising of a club for 1 year
Director of technology and communications for the same club for another year
Honors/Awards:
Dean's list.
Acceptance to Phi Beta Kappa society. Nothing very noteworthy.

Current school list

Reaches:
Hopkins
Harvard
Upenn
Pritzker
Northwestern
Columbia

Standard:
Michigan
Pitt
Cornell
Mt Sinai
Mayo
Emory
Einstein
Hofstra
Ohio State
Boston University

"Safeties":
Indiana
Colorado
Cincinnati
Wake Forest
Maryland

Any schools I should add/drop? Also any holes in my application I should work on during my gap year?
Thank you all so much in advance!!!

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[Goro]

Of you list, I suggest:

Hopkins
Harvard
Upenn
Pritzker
Northwestern
Columbia
Michigan
Pitt
Cornell
Mt Sinai
Mayo
Emory
Einstein
Hofstra
Ohio State
Boston University
Indiana
Cincinnati


Suggest adding more hours in service to others less fortunate than yourself.

Suggest adding:
U Miami
Western MI
Case
Keck
U VM
Stanford
Rochester
Jefferson
Dartmouth
U IA
U VA
Duke
Vandy

 

[Timespace12]

Thank you @Goro ! I really appreciate you helping out with my list. One quick question, I was under the impression that CA schools are not really worth applying to if your OOS. Does the same not apply with Stanford? Also, are my shadowing hours acceptable? I wasn't sure about a lot of it being overseas, and only having ~50hrs in peds. Thanks again!!

 

[Goro]

Thank you @Goro ! I really appreciate you helping out with my list. One quick question, I was under the impression that CA schools are not really worth applying to if your OOS. Does the same not apply with Stanford? Also, are my shadowing hours acceptable? I wasn't sure about a lot of it being overseas, and only having ~50hrs in peds. Thanks again!!

Stanford is worth a shot . 50 hrs domestically is fine for shadowing.