MD & DO WAMC/School List Help - low GPA, decent MCAT

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Hey everyone, I'll be applying both MD/DO this cycle as a first-time applicant, and I'm hoping to narrow my list down to around 40 schools (which sounds wild, but I know with my GPA I need to be applying pretty broadly). I have a pretty general school list put together right now, but I'd love any and all advice on whether I should be taking schools out or putting schools into my list.

1. cGPA: 3.24 and sGPA: not completely calculated yet (nothing verified in the apps) but tentatively 3.0? My graduate GPA is a 4.0.
2. MCAT: 517 (127/129/127/131)
3. Florida resident and US citizen
4. ORM (Asian American woman)
5. Have both my BS and MPH, recently graduated from my MPH program. Undergrad major: Biology (minor was History); graduate concentration: Epidemiology & Global Communicable Disease. Currently working as a Medical Assistant.
6. Clinical experience (~392 hours without accounting for current MA position; with that position & its current/projected hours, I'll have closer to 2,500 hours)
   1. Hospital and clinic-based internship
      • lots of close patient contact and integrated physician shadowing
      • helped pilot an Adolescent and Young Adult rotation all about the mental health of oncology patients while working closely with the hospital social workers
      • experience in rooming and taking vitals during this internship as well
   2. Medical Assistant position
      • taking vitals, taking medial histories, sitting in the room with patient while the doctors do their assessments, writing notes afterwards.
      • part of this job is in a private clinic, the other part of this job is working in a surgical center triaging patients, bringing them back to the OR for surgical procedures, and aiding in their post-anesthesia recovery
7. Research experience and productivity (>1000 hrs)
   1. (~576 hrs) Public health research (paid position)
      • Conducted a scoping literature review about current provider training techniques & their implementation for special topics like maternal opioid use, cultural competence, and implicit bias.
      • Led to the development of two surveys that were widespread amongst perinatal quality collaboratives in both FL and nationally
      • survey data was combed, analyzed, and is currently in the process of being shaped into a manuscript that is almost ready to be submitted for publishing
      • also produced two technical reports
      • this position also led to a published abstract for a Dissemination & Implementation conference
   2. (~360 hrs) Research in a neuroscience lab (undergrad)
      • worked with rats and ran them through a maze, lol
      • Produced a poster that I presented at my university's undergraduate research symposium
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
   1. In-person shadowing (1 specialty) = ~24 hrs
      • 1 specialty but three separate experiences:
        • 1 Pediatrician (MD) in a hospital setting; tagged along on grand rounds and patient consultations; also attended a pre-rounds breastfeeding presentation
        • 1 Pediatrician (MD) in a private clinic setting: observed patient appointments
        • 1 Pediatrician (MD) in a private clinic setting: observed patient appointments
   2. Virtual shadowing = ~25 hrs
      • program put on by a Family Medicine DO
      • learned about a bunch of common ailments and how they'd present; took on sample cases and solved them in teams
9. Non-clinical volunteering
   1. (~192 hrs) Hospital volunteering
   2. (~120 hrs) Volunteered at an on-campus daycare
   3. (~40 hrs) Service trip to Lower Ninth District in New Orleans, LA for continued Hurricane Katrina relief
   4. (currently about 54 hours, projected total about 310 hrs) Crisis Text Line volunteer
10. Leadership
    1. (316 hrs) Assistant Director for a social justice/leadership retreat series; really impactful, sparked my decision to pursue MPH
    2. (640 hrs) Graduate TA for the core courses in my MPH program (paid position)
    3. (~144 hrs) TA for an EMR course I took in undergrad
11. Relevant honors or awards
    1. Inducted into a national public health honor society that only accepts the top 5-10% of the class based on academic and professional achievement
    2. Inducted into another national honor society in undergrad
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important
    1. I have a lot of other extracurricular activities that mean a lot to me that'll be on my app, including being a campus tour guide, co-creating and co-hosting a podcast for my school's subdivision of TEDx, and indoor rock climbing.
    2. I would reaaaally like to get out of Florida, but I know that might not be realistic. Love to be in a city setting, or at least anything bigger than a small town, lol (Chicago/Philly have always been dream cities)
    3. I know my GPA is one of my biggest hold-ups, but I also know that going strictly off of stats isn't a great approach

MD School List (no particular order):

1. Albany
2. CUSM
3. Case Western
4. FAU
5. Rosalind Franklin
6. Creighton
7. Hofstra
8. Drexel
9. EVMS
10. FIU
11. FSU
12. Quinnipiac
13. Geisinger
14. Hackensack
15. Mount Sinai
16. Temple
17. Loyola
18. Medical College of Wisconsin
19. NY Med College
20. Nova Southeastern
21. Oakland
22. Stonybrook
23. Robert Larner
24. Rush
25. Saint Louis
26. Sidney Kimmel @ Thomas Jefferson U
27. SUNY Downstate
28. USF
29. UCF
30. Cincinnati
31. UF
32. U of Illinois
33. U of Maryland
34. U of Miami
35. U of Pittsburg
36. Rochester
37. VCU
38. Virginia Tech
39. Wake Forest
40. Wayne State
41. Homer Stryker

DO School List (no particular order):

1. AT Still - Kirksville
2. Arkansas COM
3. DMU-COM
4. Midwestern - Chicago
5. Campbell
6. LECOM (both campuses)
7. Lincoln Memorial Debusk
8. VECOM (all campuses)
9. KCU-COM
10. Alabama COM
11. Midwestern - Arizona
12. MU-COM
13. Nova
14. Oklahoma
15. PCOM (both GA and South GA)
16. Rocky Vista
17. Rowan
18. Touro (CA and NV)
19. UNE-COM

Apologies for the length of this post, but any input is very much appreciated!

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Remove schools such as Geisinger and Virginia Tech since they have a regional preference. U Maryland, Stony Brook, SUNY Downstate, U Illinois accept few non residents with your GPA and no connection to the state. Case Western, Mount Sinai, Pittsburgh, Rochester are far reaches with your GPA.
For DO schools I suggest these schools:
LECOM (all schools)
PCOM (all schools)
Touro (CA , NV and NY)
NYITCOM
UNECOM
AZCOM
ATSU-KCOM
KCU-COM
DMU-COM
CCOM
MU-COM
WVSOM
ACOM
WCU-COM
UNECOM
WIth your GPAs you will probably be screened out at CUSOM and teh VCOMs.