Any chance for another brown kid wanted to do medicine?

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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<p>Hey guys I was wondering if I have a chance at getting into any of the following programs:</p>

<p>USC Bacc/MD
UCSD BA/MD
HPME
UMKC
Howard BA/MD
PLME
Penn State BA/MD
George Washington
BU
Virginia Commonwealth Universtiy </p>

<p>Here are my stats:
4.065 W, 3.516 UW
Top 10% in very competitive bay area school</p>

<p>Tests: SAT: 2250 (800 M, 720 C, 730 W)
ACT: 35 composite (33 E, 36 M, 35 R, 36 S) 35 writing score
SAT ii's: Math ii c: 780
Lit: 750
Chem: 760</p>

<p>Ap's taken: bio 2 (it was a bad day), chem, stat, waiting for chem and stat most likely 5's though.</p>

<p>Sophmore Year Classes: AP bio, english 10, advanced alg 2, chem, French 3, History 10</p>

<p>Junior Year Classes: AP chem, AP Stat, Honors English 11, Honors Trig, Honors French 4, Physics, US History</p>

<p>Senior Year Classes: AP Econ, AP Calc AB, AP Psychics, AP Lit, teacher aide, team sports</p>

<p>EC's: Helped out in government hospital in India for last 4 years
Shadowed Doctor since last 2 years
Wrote a paper on biotech with help from a PHD from Davis, ended up<br>
being published in a newspaper.
JV Golf team freshmen year, we went undefeated
V Golf team sophomore, junior, and senior year, captain my senior year
Placed top 10 as an individual in many golf tournaments for school team
Model UN member: won two gavels, and a distinguished delegate award
at a national conference, will most likley have
three gavels by the time I apply to colleges
I help my dad run his business having to do with the federal
government. Helped him start it. Now is starting to become very
profitable company.
Mu Alpha Theta Club: did well in all of the Mandelbrot competitions and
passed the AMC with a score of 103.5. Only
three people passed in our whole school.</p>

<p>Essay's will be pretty good
Interviewing skill will be excellent (have taken many classes and have had tons of interviews throughout high school)</p>

<p>Oh yea and im Indian from a upper middle class family</p>

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<p>sorry that its so long =(</p>

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<p>sorry, i meant i got an 11 on my ACT writing score. its out of 12</p>

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<p>id say you have a really good shot for all of them. your rank is a little low, but it sholdnt keep you out of any of them. just be sure and write good essays to land the interviews.</p>

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<p>thanks eternity, i see that your already at northwestern, r u in the HPME program. If so how do you like it? The reason I ask is because my friend got into HPME and Stanford and chose Stanford.</p>

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<p>I'm going to be a freshman in HPME this coming fall, but everyone I know thats in the program is in love with it. Its an amazing opportunity because not many top medical schools offer these guaranteed programs (other than Baylor).</p>

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<p>Your uw GPA is pretty low too....and i'm not seeing any volunteer work :(</p>

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<p>is volunteer work really that important though?</p>

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<p>in medical related field yes</p>

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<p>under the EC section i state that i helped out in a government hospital, this was volunteer work. I went there every summer and volunteered. I also volunteered about 100 hrs at a local library</p>

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<p>your golf is strong for ECs, scores are good, but gpa is the weakness. gpa matters a lot when u want to get the interview, but hey, its random sometimes and I hope it is...</p>

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<p>what if i was able to pull um my gpa to a 4.129 W and a 3.581 UW with the help of community college classes. Would that help?</p>

<p>Thanks for all the input you guys have given me</p>

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<p>hey, it can't hurt..but the adcoms will decide..</p>

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<p>3.581 is still a bit low..</p>

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<p>I understand my gpa is low but don't my other stats make up for the low gpa. I know that things don't make up for other things when it comes to applying to college. But don't colleges look at the person as a whole? I mean my gpa is low but my ACT score is pretty high, and as you can see from my ec's I have been helping out in the medical field quite a lot.</p>

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<p>Do they look at UW GPA or W GPA?</p>

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<p>good question, i really don't know</p>

<p>anyone else, i could really use the help</p>

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<p>unweighted</p>

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<p>all of them look at unweighted..so basically trying to get H's in honors classes was a waste...!!</p>

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<p>lol no its good u took honors classes, one of the most important criteria is academic rigor of course load. kyanh tran what sckools are u lookin to apply to? you seem uniquely, (tho oddly :-), qualified</p>