@seven27 I feel that proximity to the school definitely plays a factor when selecting students. I live on the east coast and feel that it would have been harder for me to receive interviews for west coast schools.
I applied to:
Mount Sinai (Interview invite 12/14)
Weill Cornell
NYU
Columbia
Harvard
Rockefeller
Boston U
MIT
JHU
Yale
Vanderbilt
Upenn
Hoping to hear back from more schools soon