WAMC + School List help. 519/3.94 CA ORM

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bagele

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Any advice for school list is appreciated! Main concern is it too top heavy? Any schools I should add/remove? Thank you!

cGPA: 3.94, sGPA: 3.93
MCAT: 512 (129/124/127/132); 519 (130/129/130/130)
CA ORM, UC School, Human Bio major
2 gap years

Clinical experience: 1030 hours
  • 800 hours MA at allergy clinic
  • 150 hours free clinic
  • 40 hours Sutter hospital volunteer
  • 40 hours optometry office
Research experience: 2300 hours
  • Pediatric oncology lab: 1400 hrs over 4 years summer internship; Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Pediatric Oncology Student Training Grant.
  • Plant pathology lab: 3 years 900 hours; 2 independent projects and senior thesis; 2 poster conferences; second author manuscript publication
Shadowing: 90 hours
  • 20 hours allergy/immunology
  • 20 hours surgery
  • 50 hours projected IM
Non-clinical volunteering: 200 hours
  • 100 hours homeless food distribution, wound care, harm reduction
  • 100 hours service fraternity
Other: Dartmouth MPH

Honors:
  • Dartmouth scholar
  • University honors program
  • Phi beta kappa
  • Phi kappa phi
  • Phi sigma biological science honors society
  • Dean’s list
  • Department citation
NYU
UPenn
Yale
Vanderbilt
Columbia
Northwestern
USF
Stanford
UVA
Duke
Icahn SOM
Uchicago Prizker
Cornell
Rochester
Albert Einstein
BU
Case Western
Keck USC
UMich
Pitt
UCSF
UCI
Dartmouth
Emory
Kaiser
UCSD
Tuft
Brown
UCLA
Sidney Kimmel
Loyola
Drexel
UCD
Quinnipaic
California Northstate
 
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Loyola expects far more non clinical volunteering hours than you have. Schools may average your MCAT scores so your list is top heavy. Consider adding these schools:
UMass
New York Medical College
George Washington
Western Michigan
TCU
California University