Any Chances for Physician-Scientist Program

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2010 (790M / 610R / 610W)
ACT: None
SAT II: 790 Chem, 800 Math 2C
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): No rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (5), Chem (5), English Lang (3), U.S. History (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Econ, AP Gov't, AP Physics B, AP Computer Science, Chinese Language and Culture
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Toshiba Exploravision Honorable Mention</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Cross Country (captain), Winter Track (captain), Spring Track (captain), Jericho Christian Club (founder), Art Honor Society (secretary), National Honor Society (member), Asian American Awareness (member), Peer Tutoring (member), and TBM (member)
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: National Honor Society, Peer Tutoring, Asian American Awareness
Summer Activities: None. just reading books that I couldn't read during the school years and studying for the SAT.
Essays: Did not start writing yet. But according to my A.P. Composition grade, I would say it would be not excellent, but decent or so so.
Teacher Recommendation: Hopefully pretty good; one from AP Chem teacher and one from AP Composition teacher. In AP Chem class, I was a top rank student who had the highest average among his students (almost 100). My AP Composition teacher has known me for two years thus knows me very well since I came to America.
Counselor Rec: No clue
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: Not yet</p>

<p>Other:
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: less than $15K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>

<p>Reflection:
Strengths: recommendation, interest in a variety of disciplines (even though i tend to have lower grade in english and social studies than math and science because of language barrier), grades (depending on the standard), SAT II
Weaknesses: SAT I (especially reading and writing), essays, work and research experience, extracurricular activities (such as community service)</p>

<p>In addition, when I apply to 7 year med program on common app website, which decision plan should I choose? Early Decision I? or Regular Decision? If I get rejected from med program, am I reconsidered in regular engineering admission?</p>

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<p>I think you have great chances, and would be suprised if you didn't get in.
Thats quite a senior courseload.. lots of APs.. Your math SAT will outweigh the others, so I dont think thats a huge issue.. </p>

<p>Early Decision is binding.. it helps your chances, but if you get accepted, you are required to enroll. Its only if RPI is your top choice. If you get a canidates choice application in the mail, that would be non-binding I believe.. thats called "early action". </p>

<p>As far as your second question, I am not sure.. I would call someone associated with the physician scientist program or the admissions office.</p>

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<p>I had stats better than yours (sorry! :o) and I didn't get into the program, because I didn't have any medical research experience or anything related to medicine except for life experience....kind of like you do.</p>

<p>the average scores for people accepted into the program is 2130...just so you'd know...</p>

<p>I don't think your chances are great..what I did was I applied to the program, got in through the RPI round and got rejected by AMC...and then RPI gave me quite a lot of money, so I decided to go here despite getting into better schools.</p>

<p>applying ED does not matter for this program since you are really applying to AMC and not to RPI </p>

<p>Hope that helps :D</p>

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<p>interesting. </p>

<p>I guess they are considered quite separately!</p>

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<p>What the rules about when a student fails to meet the GPA requirement after one semester or after two semesters in a row in the physician scientist program?</p>

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<p>you have to apply regular decision as that’s what the instructions say.
You are not necessarily considered for the engineering programs at RPI if you are not accepted to AMC. This is one of those programs that waits to see if you are accepted into AMC first. If you want to be considered for their engineering program you have to contact the admissions office and let them know. D was told to send a mini essay in writing indicating that even if AMC rejected her that she was still interested in RPI. </p>

<p>And for RPI it’s not just medical experience they are looking for. They are looking for research experience - it is called physician/scientist program for that reason.</p>

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<p>…to update on the SAT average; it was 2200 for the 2013 entering class.</p>