WAMC/School List Help ORM, 518/3.81, NY resident, need help narrowing school list?

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cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: cGPA: 3.81 sGPA: 3.69 (upward trend 3.7/3.5/4.0/4.0)
  1. MCAT score(s) and breakdown. Include all (non-voided) attempts: 518(129/127/131/131) one attempt only
  2. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): NY, ties to MN (family lives there and I visit)
  3. Ethnicity and/or race: Asian Indo-Caribbean (Guyanese)
  4. Undergraduate institution or category: NY state school
  5. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer):
  • 450 hrs Medical Assistant at OBGYN private practice
  • 2880 hrs Medical Assistant and later promoted to chief MA and office manager at Allergy/Asthma/Immunology practice: lots of leadership and clinical responsibility in this role; listed as MME
  1. Research experience and productivity
  • 300 hrs iGEM: wet lab research, team presented at Giant Jamboree Conference, team earned gold medal for university
  • 390hrs Theoretical/Computational Chemistry Lab: two publications one 2nd author (journal impact factor 5.6) and the other eight author (journal impact factor 14.4)
  • 200 hrs (and ongoing) Clinical research related to Veterans : I served as clinical research coordinator. I participated in all stages of the research, from protocol development and recruitment to data collection and presentation of findings. Invited to give oral presentation at international medical conference and local county legislature Veterans committee. Also invited to give oral presentation at another medical conference in October; this research is listed as MME
  1. Shadowing experience and specialties represented
  • Allergy/Asthma/Immunology 100 hrs (Physician is certified and also sees internal med cases)
  • OBGYN 50 hrs
  • Pathology 8 hrs
  1. Non-clinical volunteering
  • 94hrs Volunteer with non-profit food bank, sorting, packing, and distributing food to low-income individuals, seniors, and Veterans
  • 60hrs ESL-tutor for adults learning English
  • 236 hrs Voluneering at an emergency housing facility for families helping children with homework and facilitating recreation time after school
Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc):
  • Graduated May 2021, took 4 gap years
  • 150 hrs TEACHING: Teaching assistant for general chemistry, organic chemistry lab, and inorganic chemistry across 3 semesters
  • 670 hrs LEADERSHIP: Editor-in-Chief of undergraduate science journal (started as editor, later managing editor, etc… activity done all 4 yrs of college, one of my MME)
  • Co-created a local science writing competition with participation from 121 students across 29 school districts
  • NON-CLINICAL EMPLOYMENT: Pharmacy technician 750hrs
Major application themes: leadership, science communication, Veteran outreach

  1. Buffalo (Jacobs)
  2. SUNY Upstate
  3. Albany Medical College
  4. SUNY Downstate
  5. Temple University
  6. Wayne State University
  7. Saint Louis University
  8. Drexel University
  9. Western Michigan
  10. Nova Southeastern
  11. Rosalind Franklin
  12. George Washington
  13. Eastern Virginia
  14. Penn State University
  15. Medical College of Wisconsin
  16. Quinnipiac University
  17. Icahn at Mount Sinai
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Stony Brook University
  20. Hofstra
  21. New York Medical College
  22. University of Pittsburgh
  23. Colorado
  24. University of Iowa
  25. Creighton University
  26. Dartmouth (Geisel)
  27. University of Cincinnati
  28. Boston University
  29. Ohio State
  30. Tufts University
  31. Emory University
  32. Jefferson (Kimmel)
  33. University of Miami
  34. Cornell
  35. University of Rochester
  36. Duke University
  37. Stanford University
  38. Case Western Reserve
  39. Brown University
  40. USF (Morsani)
  41. University of Arizona
  42. Mayo Clinic (MN)
  43. Northwestern Universtiy
  44. UChicago
  45. University of Virginia
  46. WashU St. Louis
  47. NYU Long Island
  48. Columbia
  49. Harvard
  50. Johns Hopkins
  51. Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
  52. Seton-Hall Hackensack Meridian
  53. Rush?
  54. Loyola Univesity
  55. Oakland University
  56. Tulane University
  57. Wake Forest
  58. Yale?
 
I suggest these schools from your list:
  1. Buffalo (Jacobs)
  2. SUNY Upstate
  3. Albany Medical College
  4. SUNY Downstate
  5. Temple University
  6. Saint Louis University
  7. Drexel University
  8. Western Michigan
  9. George Washington
  10. Quinnipiac University
  11. Icahn at Mount Sinai
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Stony Brook University
  14. Hofstra
  15. New York Medical College
  16. University of Pittsburgh
  17. Creighton University
  18. Dartmouth (Geisel)
  19. Boston University
  20. Tufts University
  21. Emory University
  22. Jefferson (Kimmel)
  23. University of Miami
  24. Cornell
  25. University of Rochester
  26. Duke University
  27. Case Western Reserve
  28. Brown University
  29. USF (Morsani)
  30. Mayo Clinic (MN)
  31. Northwestern Universtiy
  32. UChicago
  33. University of Virginia
  34. WashU St. Louis
  35. NYU Long Island
  36. Columbia
  37. Harvard
  38. Johns Hopkins
  39. Seton-Hall Hackensack Meridian
  40. Tulane University
  41. Yale
 
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