School List help for someone who lived outside the US their entire life

I am applying MD/PhD
See this thread for my stats:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/md-phd-strength.1190809/

Here is current school list:
Columbia,
UPenn,
Harvard,
Dartmouth,
Brown,
Cornell,
UPitssburgh,
Wisconsin Madison,
Stanford,
UCSF,
UCLA,
USC,
Uchicago,
Northwestern,
UCSan Diego
Hopkins,
yale
Sinai

Really wanna stay in city and would prefer not to go somewhere too close minded or secluded. I have lived abroad my whole life and heard horror stories about some parts...

School List help for someone who lived outside the US their entire life