<p>In other words, I am an excellent student and hard worker but have mediocre SAT scores. I consider myself to be very well-rounded. Here's me:</p>
<p>CR: 600
Math: 620
Writing: 640</p>
<p>GPA: 4.35 (weighted)
Class Rank: unknown (prob b/ top 10-15% of a class of 500)</p>
<p>E.C.
NHS
BETA
Eagle Scout
Church Youth Committee Leader
Mission trips to Slidell, Lousiana and Ottowa, Canada
Shadowed my Uncle who is a Family Practitioner
Jazz Solo Award
Marching Band all 4 years
Math and Science Center</p>
<p>Course Load:
all honors and AP's with A's and B's</p>
<p>I am a VA resident at a very competitive high school (class of '08)
I also am intersted in medicine
Both Parents attended UVA</p>
<p>College List:
UVA
Davidson
NC State
William and Mary
UNC-Chapell Hill
Wake Forest (maybe)
VA Tech (safety)
JMU (safety)</p>
<p>Should I stick with these schools? Are there any other prestigious schools with good pre-medicine programs that I have not listed? Will my SAT scores hurt me? Thanks.</p>
<p>I don't know if you're really in the position to consider VATech and JMU safeties. You're barely above the 75th percentile for both. Being instate will help, but they're not sure things.</p>
<p>Wakeforest, Davidson, W&M, and UNC are all high matches to reaches for you. And UVA would be a reach but for your parents' legacies.</p>
<p>And yes, your SAT scores will hurt you. Especially because the schools you're looking for are, for the most part, big state schools, where numbers are a HUGE part of the application. And as a premed kid, you're going to be pretty mediocre if not near the bottom of the barrel for med programs at these places.</p>
<p>That said, being in state will help a lot. But I wouldn't be shocked if UVA or W&M, or even both, said no.</p>
<p>Well, considering I'm still in the bottom middle 50% of those accepted, I'd hope I have a chance. It's hard for me to believe that any of these schools would deny a person with mediocre SAT scores when they have everything else. Not everyone has everything. I don't believe an SAT score in the 1200's would predict a poor doctor.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter what you think, it matters what the colleges think. (I'm not trying to be a jerk but that's the way life is) Personally, I'd retake your SAT but you have decent chances at the schools listed (cept UNC-CH). Your GPA is pretty high yet your class rank is not, this also hurts you a bit. Still, I mainly agree with ses.</p>