WAMC/School List: CA, ORM, 4.0/522; Worried about list being too top heavy!

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abdum

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Hi all! I would appreciate any feedback on my current school list.
  • State/Country of Residence: California
  • Undergrad: T20 research heavy uni
  • Ties to other States/Regions: St. Louis, Southern California
  • URM? (Y/N): N
  • Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Biology, Chinese, Anthropology
  • Cumulative GPA: 4.00
  • Science GPA: 4.00
  • MCAT Score(s): 522
  • IA: one IA due to alcohol violation my sophomore year of college 🙁
  • Research Experience:
    • ~2000 basic science research (highly involved with strong LOR) at my undergrad
    • ~2000 (by time of matriculation) in genomics at Boston Children's/Harvard Med (gap year)
  • Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.)
    • Many posters/presentations, no publications (3 currently in review, but none by submission of primary)
  • Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer):
    • ~400 hours interview patients in whole health initiative
    • ~300 hospital volunteering/student health ambassador
    • ~ 500 Independent cultural anthropology research on Chinese culture and health, patient and physician interviewing
  • Physician Shadowing: ~250 with ~10 dif specialties
  • Non-Clinical Volunteering:
    • ~100 hours during covid in food donation to homeless communities
    • ~300 hosting neuroscience event to underserved educational areas in St. Louis
  • Other Extracurricular Activities:
    • ~400 hrs TA chemistry and anatomy
    • ~200 founder of brain research club
    • ~400 hosting annual STEM high school tournament for university
    • ~500 hrs in a health innovation startup
  • Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): Y
  • Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Y
  • Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): N
  • Medical School List: mostly worried about being too top heavy! and is this too many?!
    • all my CA schools
      • UCLA
      • UCSF
      • UCSD
      • UCI
      • Kaiser
      • USC
      • Stanford
    • everything else
      • harvard
      • yale
      • penn
      • washu
      • nyu
      • vanderbilt
      • mt sinai
      • case western
      • albert einstein
      • emory
      • UVA
      • mayo
      • hofstra
      • northwestern
      • umich
      • rochester
      • cornell
      • hopkins
      • columbia
      • SLU
      • UColorado

  • Thanks so much!!! I appreciate any and all feedback
 
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