Hi! Would love some feedback on the places I am signaling for academic IM, mainly wanting to make sure I have a good balance of safeties/targets/reaches.

School: Mid-tier East Coast school

STEP 1: Pass

Clerkship Grades: strict P/F for M3 (all P's), graded M4 (honored sub-I)

STEP 2: 260

AOA: not offered at our school

Research: 10 peer-reviewed pubs in an area I've been doing research in for 4+ years, 25 research items total including pubs and conferences. 2 first author publications, rest are 2nd author pubs

ECs: Strong leadership/volunteering

Career Goals: Academic, interested in GI fellowship
Geographic preferences: New England, Middle Atlantic, South Atlantic

Gold signals: UPenn, Hopkins, Mt. Sinai

Silver: Jefferson, Rutgers RWJ vs. NJMS (NJ resident), UMD, BU, Brown, Tufts, NYP Cornell, Georgetown, Yale, NYP Columbia, UNC Chapel Hill

Struggling on which other programs to add, and wanting to make sure I have a balanced list. Thanks!