WAMC School List Help: 516 MCAT/3.92 cGPA/3.88 sGPA

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FuriousTiger89

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Hello! This is pretty much my finalized list for medical schools I am going to apply to. I know it is a lot and will require a lot of work with secondaries but I am prepared for that. I was wondering if any of these schools should be removed from this list because I am not a good fit or have a low chance of acceptance.
  1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.92/3.88
  2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts: 516
  3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): Virginia
  4. Ethnicity and/or race: South Asian
  5. Undergraduate institution or category: Top Public Undergraduate College (College of William & Mary)
  6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 900 paid clinical hours, 650 volunteer hours
    1. I am including my volunteer experience with Remote Area Medical here because they set up free clinics for the underserved around the US and I figured volunteering there would fall under clinical volunteering
  7. Research experience and productivity: >1000 hours, 1 publication, 1 internship. The hours are across 3 labs, one being a cancer research internship in Cincinnati during the summer of 2025, one hard science lab at my college studying amino acids, and another global health institute lab that I published with
  8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 173 across primary care, pediatric GI surg, peds onc, gen surg, cardiac surgery, plastics
  9. Non-clinical volunteering: 100 hours with a local food bank
  10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): TA for two classes during college, 1-2 hours per day working out at the gym (not sure if this is worth including), 5000 hours singing since starting pre-high school until now, Remote Area Medical volunteer internship (500 hours included in clinical volunteer hours),
  11. Relevant honors or awards: Graduated summa cum laude
  12. Anything else not listed you think might be important: My clinical job I held I worked for 3 years and was required to work only nights or weekends which partially took away from my ability to do other extracurriculars at college as I would often work weekends. Most recently, I did not have class on Tuesdays or Thursdays so I would work Monday and Wedensday nights.
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Some schools screen at 150 hours for non clinical volunteering and top tier schools expect more. I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Wake Forest
USF Morsani
Miami
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
George Washington
Pittsburgh
Hackensack
Hofstra
Einstein
NYMC
Albany
Rochester
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Tufts
UMass
Oakland Beaumont
Western Michigan
Medical College Wisconsin
TCU
Colorado
Arizona (Phoenix)
 
If you were involved with the college chapter of RAM, could you separate the hours you spent at a RAM clinic vs. on-campus? What did you do on-campus (other clubs)?
The RAM chapter at my college had too many people in it so I would have barely gone to clinics. I did the clinics on my own, but the bulk of the hours come from an internship I did two summers ago, so could I separate it out like that?
 
Some schools screen at 150 hours for non clinical volunteering and top tier schools expect more. I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Wake Forest
USF Morsani
Miami
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
George Washington
Pittsburgh
Hackensack
Hofstra
Einstein
NYMC
Albany
Rochester
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Tufts
UMass
Oakland Beaumont
Western Michigan
Medical College Wisconsin
TCU
Colorado
Arizona (Phoenix)
Thank you!