WAMC (3.97, 521, Oregon) School list help

[premed557]

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GPA: 3.97

MCAT: 521 (132, 130, 129, 130)

Oregon resident

Middle-eastern (Assuming this is just considered white in medical schools' eyes)

Attended OSU for 3 years from 2019-2022

Clinical experience
-Medical scribe: ~1450 clinical hours over a year
-Clinical research coordinator working with AML patients: ~1800 clinical hours over a year

Research experience
-Clinical research coordinator (same experience as above): To be honest I'm sure how medical schools view this experience in relation to research if anyone has insight on this.
-Research assistant (non-wet lab) in undergrad: ~100 hours, working with NIH dataset exploring intersectionality between race and disability and cancer diagnosis; Wrote a manuscript (has not yet been published) on it

Shadowing:
-50 hours

Non-clinical volunteering
-Nonprofit social services organization (primarily serving meals, handing out clothes, preparing kits and meals): ~200 hours from 2021-2024

Leadership/teaching
Tutoring: ~150 hours
Learning assistant: ~80 hours
Lab assistant: ~50 hours

Honors/Awards:
-Dean's list
-Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award (Highest performing student in general chemistry sequence)

School list so far (this has definitely been more overwhelming then I anticipated, I feel like I'm just arbitrarily choosing between schools at this point, trying to cut this down to 20ish also would appreciate any insight on schools I may be missing/should consider):

OHSU (in-state)
UCLA (reach)
UCSF (Feels like my biggest reach)
Emory (reach)
UA Phoenix (I think reach..)
Mount Sinai (reach)
Dartmouth (Maybe reach?)
Rochester (Maybe reach?)
UCSD (I know the OOS odds aren't in my favor here I just like the location a lot...)
Cincinnati
Colorado
U of Pittsburgh
Ohio state
U of IOWA
SKMC
Eastern Virginia
Western Michigan
Rosalind Franklin
St. Louis
U of Illinois
Wake Forest
Drexel
Geisinger
Loyola
Penn State
Oakland U
Albany
Tulane
Virginia Commonwealth
MCW

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! I feel like my application strength is clearly more on clinical hours and not on research, so I'm trying to keep that in mind without necessarily excluding myself from all of the research heavy schools since all the top schools will be that.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

I'll hope OHSU comes knocking. But your description is devoid of knowing what your passion/purpose is as a physician. You don't express confidence in your profile, so I'm not sure if you're being humble or being private. But mission fit will dictate whether your dream schools will see you in a sea of applicants who are more confident in their preparation and fit.

What drove you to create your list? Did you check against the AMMSA chapter list?

 

[premed557]

Welcome to the forums.

I'll hope OHSU comes knocking. But your description is devoid of knowing what your passion/purpose is as a physician. You don't express confidence in your profile, so I'm not sure if you're being humble or being private. But mission fit will dictate whether your dream schools will see you in a sea of applicants who are more confident in their preparation and fit.

What drove you to create your list? Did you check against the AMMSA chapter list?

I just joined this forum and was trying to mirror how other people presented their application but that's not how I intended to come-off? I feel great about applying this year but it's my first time and I'm trying to be self-critical at the same time since I'm not exactly sure how schools will look at my application when it comes to research (especially pertaining the CRC question). The main criteria I used for schools (after stats) was OOS favorability, fit, and location, though for the higher tier schools (not including reaches) I did try to include schools with a primary care focus since that is a lot of what my application and personal statement are tailored to in a sense.

Really just looking for all and any thoughts and wasn't trying to be humble or private, just trying to balance everything since I know my stats/clinical experience is great while acknowledging other parts of my application aren't as strong as those in my eyes.