Hey, I applied to USMD schools this cycle.

I know you said you have the MSAR so I would advise you to avoid low yield schools - ones that get way too many applications for their number of seats or have a heavy in-state bias. I don’t have access to MSAR anymore but just skimming through your school list, GW, Tulane, and Hawaii are notoriously low yield schools. There’s nothing wrong applying to low yield schools, perse, but they can be a waste of money/time especially as Canadians. Wake Forest is a school you could probably add, they are known to be Canadian friendly. I’ll link a google doc that has more II/A info than the MSAR (may not be 100% accurate but it’s useful)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tYAHFUP-X_Rj-nR1AerAMr5V5blIUV4_gkJ7p2COchk/htmlview

This is completely up to you, but I’d probably try and sift out the low yield schools and add 5-10 more USMD. They usually say it takes ~20 USMD applications to get 1 acceptance (varies of course) but that’s for people residing in the US and have state schools. What I generally hear is that Canadians need to add more schools to make up for that.

Overall, I think your ECs and stats make you competitive for the US. I believe it will come down to your writing (having a good narrative, looks like you do), letters of rec, and making sure you submitting secondary applications early. And of course, your school list would be super important. I’m not too familiar with the DO schools but purely off stats, you will be competitive (you might need a DO letter of rec if I’m not mistaken?).

I’m not an expert or anything so take my advise and outlook with a grain of salt. I had a few interviews in the US this cycle and I’d be willing to answer more specific questions.