4.0 GPA and 509 MCAT ... Are these schools reasonable?

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SJ1212

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-I'm an Illinois resident
-Took a gap year, full time CNA (Long-term care for profoundly disabled children)
-The 4.0 is from a small/unimpressive state school
-509 MCAT is skewed (127 Chem/Phys, 126 Bio, 126 CARS, 130 Psych)
-B.A. in Bio and B.S in Psych
-Minored in Chem and Neuroscience
-2 summers of Chem research with one publication (Learned research is not for me!!)
-Excessive sorority leadership
-Lots of community service (Not in the health field though)
-Limited shadowing, primarily a 2 week internship with one Doc & 40 hospital hours

Rowan University
Loyola
Oakland University
Southern Illinois
Wright State
Wayne State
Penn State
College of Wisconsin
Wake Forest
Rosalind Franklin
Tulane
Virginia Commonwealth
University of Illinois
Rush
St. Louis

Also, it might (definitely) be crazy, but University of Rochester. I adore their mission statement! But I don't want to just waste my money either...

What do you think? Any schools that are particularly low-yield or unfitting? Am I aiming to high or low? Or, any good matches I'm forgetting?

I've been sifting through MSAR and trying to do my homework, but it is all so overwhelming!

Open to any criticism or insight!
Thank you :)

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Cooper and Wright state accept mainly their own state residents so you can remove those. You could add these schools where you could receive interviews with your stats:
Vermont
Quinnipiac
New York Medical College
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
GW
Eastern Virginia
Western Michigan
Creighton
More clinical volunteering hours would help.
 
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