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MD & DO Yale Ruined My GPA

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I need MAJOR help deciding which schools to apply to. My gpa is poor, but I did okay on my second MCAT. (Do schools average the two? And would going to Yale help with my GPA?)
Any and ALL advice would be very much appreciated!!!
I don’t want to go DO, but I will consider it.

Major: Biology
Texas Resident
MCAT: 35 (12 PS, 12 VR, 11 BS) –2nd Test
MCAT: 30Q (11 PS, 11 VR, 8 BS) –1st Test
cum GPA: 3.57
science GPA: 3.45

LORs: One from each: 1) PI for research, 2) Health Policy Internship, 3) Community Hiring Director (relating to the prison project), and 4) Physics professor


Extra-Curriculars:

co-Director of Roosevelt Center (community involvement organization) 3 years (3 hours/week)
--Partnered with New Haven Mayor's office to implement jobs placement for ex-offenders in the New Haven area

Political Union, Party Chairman 4 Years (2 hours/week)

Medical Clinic Administrator-2 years (6 hours/week) (220 hours)

Hospital Shadowing-(60 hours)

Endocrinology Research-2 years (10 hours/week)

Dormitory Governing Board (and dorm career services liaison)-4 years (2 hours/week)
Summer Health Policy Internships (1 with local health department, 1 in Belgium)

Here is my current possible list:

Texas Schools:
Baylor
UT Southwestern
UT-San Antonio
UT Galveston
Texas Tech -Lubbock
Texas Tech-El Paso
Texas A&M
UT Houston


OOS:
GWU
Tulane
Drexel
Thomas Jefferson
Temple
Georgetown
Rush Medical College
UCLA
NYU
Mount Sinai
Albert Einstein
Mayo
Brown
SUNY Downstate
NYU
Vanderbilt
USC


Random Reaches:
Stanford
JHU
Cornell
Uchicago
Northwestern
Columbia
UCSF

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