WAMC, advice on school list pls :)

[strawberrygreentea]

cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
cGPA: 3.9x, sGPA=3.9x

MCAT score(s) and breakdown
516 (129/130/129/128)

State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
HI

Ethnicity and/or race
Asian

Undergraduate institution or category
State school

Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
Paid: Clinical Assistant in infectious disease physician office (600 hours by application time, plan to work full time during gap year)

Volunteer: Memory care home (just started, but planning to continue until matriculation)

Research experience and productivity (**self-diagnosed weakness in application)
Assisted on non-medical literature review; no clinical research experience

Shadowing experience and specialties represented
ED – 25hrs

Cardiology - 5hrs

Non-clinical volunteering
High school athletics coach: 1000+ hours and planning to continue until matriculation (coached two niche sports, don't want to name them because it could probably identify me)

Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)

Non-clinical admin/receptionist job: 1500hrs
Organic chemistry TA for 1 semester: ~200hrs
Treasurer for school club

Relevant honors or awards

4-year full ride scholarship at my university
Dean's list for 7 semesters

School List (due to budget, cannot apply to more than 16-18 schools)
Hawaii - Burns (in-state)
UCLA
Mount Sinai
University of Iowa
Ohio State
Kaiser
Colorado
Miami - Miller
BostonU
Creighton
Dartmouth
Einstein
Eastern Virigina
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson

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[chilly_md]

Your chances are good at your state school. Due to 0 research (basic science counts in case you thought only clinical does) and a very narrow non-clinical volunteering, you have a bit more restrictions on where you could apply. Try the following:

Hawaii
Saint Louis
USF
Jefferson
Drexel
Temple
Dartmouth
Einstein
Colorado
Western Michigan
Vermont
Tufts
Ohio State
Hofstra
Hackensack
MCW
Creighton

 

[Faha]

I suggest these schools with your stats:
Hawaii - Burns (in-state)
Mount Sinai
University of Iowa
Ohio State
Kaiser
Colorado
Miami - Miller
Creighton
Einstein
Eastern Virginia
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
USF Morsani
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Hofstra
Western Michigan
Rochester
Oakland Beaumont
Medical College Wisconsin

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Don't fret over research hours. Your involvement in "niche" sports may also make it hard for reviewers to think you would be interested in getting away from Hawaii, especially if you've spent over 1000 hours on it, making it a clearly meaningful activity to you.

What will you be doing in the memory care home?