WAMC + School List Help NY ORM 520/3.94

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Hi! My first post on SDN: Preparing for first time app this cycle, any advice for school list is appreciated! Main concern is it too top-heavy? Any schools I should add/remove? I'm looking to maybe get rid of 5 schools. Any additional thoughts is also appreciated. Thank you!

cGPA/sGPA: 3.94
MCAT: 520
Demographics: NY Resident, Biology major, FAP recipient, first-generation college student, ORM.
Gap years: 0

Clinical experience: 1700 hours
- 1500 hours Medical Assistant/Medical Scribe at a Neurology Clinic.
- 200 hours Clinical Volunteering for women's health and patient education.

Research experience: 1225 hours
- 1020 hours Research Assistant at a Chemistry Lab
- 205 hours Research Assistant at a Neuro/Eye Lab
- 9 Posters/Presentations at undergrad symposiums, 0 pubs

Shadowing: 98 hours
- 98 hours across Ophthalmology, Gastroenterology, Anesthesiology, Neurology, and Primary Care.

Non-clinical volunteering: 300 hours
- 300 hours Food Pantry Volunteer (underserved populations and women's support).

Other (Leadership/Advocacy/Teaching):
- 460 hours as a Teaching Assistant
- 300 hours as president at womens health advocacy club
- 150 hours as vice president at a neuroscience club
- 108 hours as a copy editor at a science journal club.
- 70 hours as a member of a NY women's health advocacy project

Mega reaches
1. Columbia University Vagelos College
2. Icahn Mount Sinai
3. NYU Grossman NYC
4. Harvard Med
5. Yale Med
6. UPenn Med
7. Johns Hopkins
8. Stanford
9. Duke
10. University of Virginia UVA
11. Uchicago
12. Northwestern Feinberg

Reaches
13. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
14. NYMC
15. URochester School of Med
16. Hofsta/Northwell
17. Weill Cornell Med
18. Boston University
19. Geisel Dartmouth
20. Case Western

Targets
21. Albany Medical College
22. Jacobs at Buffalo
23. NYU Grossman Long Island
24. Stony Brook RSOM
25. SUNY Upstate
26. SUNY downstate
27. Tufts Med
28. UMass TH Chan Med
29. Frank Netter at Quinnipac
30. UConn Med
31. Warren Alpert of Brown University
32. Drexel Med
33. Lewis Katz Temple Uni
34. Penn State Med
35. Rutgers Med NJ
36. Rutgers Robert Wood Med
37. Hackensack Meridian Med
38. George Washington
39. Georgetown
40. VCOM
41. Wake Forest
42. Virginia Tech Carilion

 

[Faha]

You do not need to apply to 42 schools with a GPA of 3.94 and a MCAT of 520. Some of the schools on your list may "yield protect" with your stats. I suggest these schools from your list:
1. Columbia University Vagelos College
2. Icahn Mount Sinai
3. NYU Grossman NYC
4. Harvard Med
5. Yale Med
6. UPenn Med
7. Johns Hopkins
8. Stanford
9. Duke
10. University of Virginia UVA
11. Uchicago
12. Northwestern Feinberg

Reaches
13. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
14. NYMC
15. URochester School of Med
16. Hofsta/Northwell
17. Weill Cornell Med
18. Boston University
19. Geisel Dartmouth
20. Case Western

Targets
21. Albany Medical College
22. Jacobs at Buffalo
23. NYU Grossman Long Island
24. Stony Brook RSOM
25. SUNY Upstate
26. SUNY downstate
27. Tufts Med
28. UMass TH Chan Med
31. Warren Alpert of Brown University
37. Hackensack Meridian Med
38. George Washington
39. Georgetown
42. Virginia Tech Carilion
You could add Washington University (in St. Louis-almost a guaranteed interview with your stats)

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Have you networked with AMWA members at the schools on your list? I am curious whether you would narrow (had narrowed) down your list because of local or state policies that restrict women's health choices.