School List Help Please!!

[kv11]

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Would greatly appreciate any and all feedback, I'm seriously so lost.

1. I need to narrow down my list.
2. I feel like I may be aiming too high.
3. I'm a Chicago suburbs native, like the Midwest, but open to really any state, would prefer in or near a city, pass/fail grading would be great
4. Didn't include any CA schools bc i've heard about the OOS disadvantage. Is it worth it to think about any? Also unsure about any NY schools and the Carolinas/Arizona.

Stats
3rd year Northwestern undergrad
AAMC GPA - 3.67
Science GPA - 3.58
(upward trending for both, started off as engineering, had a horrible first quarter with 3 C's due to that + other life circumstances, changed majors, life got better, everything after that quarter was As and Bs, this year all As and 1 B)
MCAT - 516 (128 Chem/Phys, 128 CARS, 130 Bio/Biochem, 130 Psych/Soc)

Hours
Total Research Hours: 1070 Hours
Total Clinical Volunteering Hours: 320 Hours
Total Non-Clinical Volunteering Hours: 360 Hours
Clinical Shadowing Hours: 84 Hours
Non-Clinical Work Hours: 648 Hours
Clinical Work Hours: 320 Future Hours (EMT this summer + possibly part time into the school year)
Leadership Hours: 320 Hours
Presentations/Posters: 45 Hours

Current colleges:
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Indiana University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Howard University College of Medicine
University of Kansas School of Medicine
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
Wayne State University School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Ohio State University College of Medicine
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Penn State University
Meharry Medical College

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

Details matter. Please follow the template. What advice has your prehealth office given you?

Schools you can cross off your list, for starters:
Carle Illinois - unless you really liked the engineering classes you struggled with.
Howard and Meharry - unless you are URM and have historically lived in a socioeconomically underresourced suburb of Chicago.
Kansas - unless you grew up and want to stay in Kansas