Low GPA, High Mcat. School list help?

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3.6 s/cGPA (had a 3.1 first semester and 3.7s after.. idk if that constitutes a trend)
520 (balanced)
2500 hours as a hospital technician, 500 hours as a scribe
150 hours clinical volunteering
~60 Hours of shadowing
800+ hours non-clinical volunteering, 450 spent teaching STEM to at-risk youth (got a LOR).
Lots of time (5000 hours) as a TA and a tutor (same position for years now, got promoted to leadership)
Medical and non-medical mission trips (house building, medical humanitarian)
Cookie-cutter research, nothing special (letters from both PIs, not sure if I should use both)
Serious hobbies in music and sports, nothing I've received recognition for.
LOR from my PI, department dean, and 2 from non-clinical EC commitments. I have another one already written from a different PI I've known for years, but it felt redundant to include this as well. I don't have any non-science academic letters (how much of a problem is this?)
Went to a reasonably prestigious private school.

I know that the MCAT range makes it hard to predict. Honestly, I'd be thrilled and honored to get into any medical school, though my preference is Allopathic and I'd like to go to as good of a school and pay as little as possible.

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Nothing wrong with aiming high.
NYU
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
U Chicago
U Penn
Northwestern
Columbia
Harvard
Stanford
Mayo
Cornell
Sinai
BU
U VA
Duke
Baylor
Case
UCSF
UCLA
UCSD
U MI
Albert Einstein
Hofstra
Ohio State
Pitt
U Cincy
USF Morsani
Dartmouth
Rochester
USC/Keck
Western MI
Emory
Jefferson
Miami
SLU
Tufts
U IA
U VM
Your state school
 
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Nothing wrong with aiming high.
NYU
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
JHU
U Chicago
U Penn
Northwestern
Columbia
Harvard
Stanford
Mayo
Cornell
Sinai
BU
U VA
Duke
Baylor
Case
UCSF
UCLA
UCSD
U MI
Albert Einstein
Hofstra
Ohio State
Pitt
U Cincy
USF Morsani
Dartmouth
Rochester
USC/Keck
Western MI
Emory
Jefferson
Miami
SLU
Tufts
U IA
U VM
Your state school
Hey, thanks so much for taking the time to reply. So just looking at the MSAR I'm wondering if that might be top heavy? That 3.6 sure isn't doing me any favors.
 
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