WAMC? Schools list

[APrioriAporia]

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I plan to send in my application June 4th, and I was wondering if I should change my schools list, based on my stats. I'm a non-URM CA resident.

Majors: Biochemistry (BS) and Philosophy (BA)
Will get an MS by the time I matriculate, if accepted for fall 2013. (5 year, BS/MS program)
cGPA: ~3.7, sGPA: ~3.7, rising trend.
No grad GPA yet, but expecting it to be comparable to/higher than sGPA.
MCAT: 35P (13, 10, 12)
Honors: Will get departmental honors for both my majors (basically wrote a senior thesis and had a certain gpa), and Phi Betta Kappa.

Research:
-6 months in a smell lab (prepared chemicals and gave them to people to smell)
-15 months (watched families eat, to assess parenting styles and children's success in a weight loss program)
-By matriculation, 2 years immunology lab (Project on HIV and aging. Will culminate to a master's thesis, and publication expected)

Others:
-2 years in senior behavioral health center (talked to dementia patients and helped nurses, psychologists, and therapists in their work)
-By matriculation, 2 years volunteering at hospital, with high patient contact (basically, I do most of the work CNAs do)
-By matriculation, 4 years in Medical Ethics Society. Positions: VP and Director. Works with many faculty members/students to host events that seek to educate and facilitate discussion in medical ethics among undergraduates, faculty, and the community.
-Also TA'd several quarters for introductory and upper division Biology classes.
-Shadowed a pathologist and a family medicine doctor. ~30 hours total

Schools list:
Top 40:
Northwestern, Boston U, Einstein College, Mt. Sinai, NYU, Pittsburgh, Stanford, USC, UCSD, UCSF, UCLA

Next 40:
UCD, UCI, Brown, Drexel, Jefferson, Penn State, NY Medical, Dartmouth, Missouri Columbia, Tufts, Tulane

Bottom 40:
Rosalind-Franklin, Missouri Kansas City, Creighton, Albany, Virginia Tech Carilion, Medical College Wisconsin

Long post, but I wanted to give all pertinent information. My questions are:
What can I do to increase my odds of getting in?
What schools should I add/remove from the above list? Any OOS friendly that I should consider?

Thank you for reading and I look forward to any responses.

 

[Catalystik]

I plan to send in my application June 4th, and I was wondering if I should change my schools list, based on my stats. I'm a non-URM CA resident.

Majors: Biochemistry (BS) and Philosophy (BA)
Will get an MS by the time I matriculate, if accepted for fall 2013. (5 year, BS/MS program)
cGPA: ~3.7, sGPA: ~3.7, rising trend.
No grad GPA yet, but expecting it to be comparable to/higher than sGPA.
MCAT: 35P (13, 10, 12)
Honors: Will get departmental honors for both my majors (basically wrote a senior thesis and had a certain gpa), and Phi Betta Kappa.

Research:
-6 months in a smell lab (prepared chemicals and gave them to people to smell)
-15 months (watched families eat, to assess parenting styles and children's success in a weight loss program)
-By matriculation, 2 years immunology lab (Project on HIV and aging. Will culminate to a master's thesis, and publication expected)

Others:
-2 years in senior behavioral health center (talked to dementia patients and helped nurses, psychologists, and therapists in their work)
-By matriculation, 2 years volunteering at hospital, with high patient contact (basically, I do most of the work CNAs do)
-By matriculation, 4 years in Medical Ethics Society. Positions: VP and Director. Works with many faculty members/students to host events that seek to educate and facilitate discussion in medical ethics among undergraduates, faculty, and the community.
-Also TA'd several quarters for introductory and upper division Biology classes.
-Shadowed a pathologist and a family medicine doctor. ~30 hours total

Schools list:
Top 40:
Northwestern, Boston U, Einstein College, Mt. Sinai, NYU, Pittsburgh, Stanford, USC, UCSD, UCSF, UCLA

Next 40:
UCD, UCI, Brown, Drexel, Jefferson, Penn State, NY Medical, Dartmouth, Missouri Columbia, Tufts, Tulane

Bottom 40:
Howard, Rosalind-Franklin, Missouri Kansas City, Creighton, Albany, Meharry, Virginia Tech Carilion, Medical College Wisconsin

Long post, but I wanted to give all pertinent information. My questions are:
What can I do to increase my odds of getting in?
What schools should I add/remove from the above list? Any OOS friendly that I should consider?

Thank you for reading and I look forward to any responses.

Consider adding 20 more hours of physician shadowing before you submit, so you're at least at the average.

What experiences would you say make you fit the missions of the historically Black medical colleges on your list?

 

[APrioriAporia]

I wasn't aware that I had some historically black medical colleges on my list. I'm not sure my experiences fit their missions, so I will remove those. Thanks for letting me know.

I'll be sure to up my shadowing hours.

If you have any other comments, those would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Catalystik]

Those would be Howard and Meharry.