School List Help

Hey guys, I'm applying this upcoming cycle and really need help deciding on where to apply. The list I have is gigantic because I fear cutting a school I could possibly attend. If someone could help me cut down on my list, or perhaps give me some ideas on how I could cut down the list that'd be great.

Basic Information About Me

Graduated 2017

State/Race- California/Asian

GPA- ~3.7 cgpa/sgpa maybe around 3.71/3.72

MCAT- 512 130/128/127/127

Research- A lot, maybe 3000-4000 hours? Currently have one 2nd author, two more 2nd authors pending, and one 5th author. May be able to get a 1st author out by the time apps roll around but unlikely.

Volunteering- Standard hospital volunteering 100-200 hours in the ICU

Physician Shadowing- 40 hours total, 20 with an ophthalmologist and 20 with a pediatrician

Non Clinical Volunteering- 300-400 hours, mentoring high school kids and providing companionship chronically sick elderly people

Not sure what else to include but feel free to ask!

Now here's my ridiculous list.

Albany Medical College

California Northstate University

Rosalind Franklin University

Cooper Medical School at Rowan University

Creighton University

Drexel University

Eastern Virginia University

Quinnipac University

Gesinger Commonwealth

George Washington University

Georgetown University

Hofstra University

Indiana University

University of Southern California

Temple University

Loyola University

Mayo Clinic School of Medicine

Medical College of Wisconsin

New York Medical College

Oakland University

Ohio State University

Penn State

University of Vermont

Rush Medical College

Saint Louis University

Sidney Kimmel College

University of Toledo

Tufts University

Tulane University

University of Arizona-Tuscon

University of Arizona-Phoenix

UC Davis

UC Irvine

UC Los Angeles

UC San Diego

UC San Francisco

University of Central Florida

University of Colorado

University of Illinois

University of Iowa

University of Maryland

University of Miami

University of Nevada Las Vegas

University of Nevada Reno

University of Utah

University of Wisconsin

USF Health Morsani

Virginia Commonwealth

Virginia Tech

Wake Forest

Wayne State

West Virginia University

Western Michigan University

Wright State

Emory University

University of Cincinatti

University of Kentucky

State University of New York Downstate

Mayo Arizona

Roseman University

Seton Hall University

Indiana University Evansville

Kaiser

If you guys have any recommendations on what to add or get rid of that'd be great. Ideally I'm only applying to ~40 schools. Thanks!

Posted Mar 12, 2018, 9:46 PM UTC

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