At a loss

College Search & Selection
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<p>With the school year coming up, the time has come to finally figure out where I'm going to be at for the next four years. But, to be honest, I don't know where I should be going. I plan to go to medical school after college, but I just don't know which school I should be achieving that goal from. Other than a few BS/MD programs, I don't know what types of schools offer good aid and good education at the same time. </p>

<p>My stats:
26 ACT (retaking it September 11th)
93 unweighted average, not sure about weighted
Search my posts for EC's, as I don't feel like posting them again. </p>

<p>It's no surprise that there won't be a tuition fairy helping me with these kinds of stats. At this point, I know that I won't get into the BS/MD programs (I'll still apply to them of course), so my main concern is getting into a good public university. I am a NY resident, so of course I am looking at SUNY's, but the only "good" ones (when it comes to science and research) seem to be Stonybrook and Binghamton. Plus, they would also be affordable (I can commute to Stony). So if you count those two SUNY's, and three other BS/MD programs, that's around 5 schools. -_-</p>

<p>I just feel like that is a very small amount to feel "comfortable" about, especially when most aren't even guarantee's. I'm basically looking for an affordable public university with more emphasis on the sciences...but I just can't seem to find any that aren't over 30k a year. =&lt;/p>

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<p>Some help would be appreciated. If this is the wrong board, please let me know. Thank you.</p>

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<p>Here is some help for you, although not of the type you probably expect:</p>

<p>Your statement that potential advisors should search your posts for your ECs as you “don’t feel like posting them again” sounds presumptuous. It sounds like it is too much trouble for you to tell us about yourself even though you already know this information and have previously compiled it, but, in your view, not too much trouble for us to do the searching. You will find that you will generally get more (and more helpful) responses by providing as much information as possible and making it as easy as possible for people to respond. Also, the more descriptive your title is, the more targeted the advice you receive may be. As it happens, I don’t know anything about NY schools, so I cannot provide any information about affordable NY schools.</p>

<p>This is the right board.</p>

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<p>You’re right. Sorry for sounding presumptuous. Here you go:</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic (half of my cousins live in Venezuela)
Average: 93.85 unweighted (around a 3.75 GPA, I’ve kept it consistent throughout high school)
Class Rank: School does not rank unless colleges need it for scholarship considerations or something like that (that’s what my guidance counselor told me lol)</p>

<p>SAT’s: 1660 (590CR, 480M, 590W, 11 essay)
SAT II’s: They’re abysmal. I won’t even go into those.
ACT: 26 Composite (retaking in September. Thank you ACT test dates )</p>

<p>Regents (grades that I remembered, anyway):
-Living Environment (9th grade…I didn’t really care back then): 82
-Earth Science: 85
-Intergrated Algebra 2 w/ Trig: 75 (and that was from trying my best…if you guys couldn’t tell already, I’m horrible at Math)
-Regents ELA: 100
-Regents US History and Gov’t: 99
-Regents Phy Set/Chemistry: 79 (retaking in August for a 90+)</p>

<p>I take IB classes instead of AP. IB classes are like AP, but supposedly they’re more harder and some are even offered in 2 years instead of one. Meh, I don’t really know more about that. My school only offers AP Euro, since the other AP’s were replaced with IB’s.</p>

<p>Classes taken this year with final grades:
-Chemistry Honors: 88
-Chorus: 99
-IB English HL I: 90
-IB History of the America’s: 92
-IB Psychology SL: 92 (gonna find out my IB exam grades on the seventh)
-Integrated Algebra 2 w/ Trig: 85
-Health Education: 90 something…my report card was torn, leaving me clueless about the second digit…lol</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
-IB English HL II
-IB History of the America’s HL II
-IB Physics
-IB Living Environment
-IB Math Studies
-Anatomy and Physiology
-Sports Medicine
-Team Sports</p>

<p>And the WISE Internship as well. I’m planning to intern with a Neurosurgeon (the school has been able to get Neurosurgeon’s before).</p>

<p>Honors:
-Honor Roll Grades 9-10
-High Honor Roll Grades 10-11 (and hopefully senior year)
-Health Achievement Award - Grade 11
-5 year National Roll for Piano Guild</p>

<p>EC School Activities:
-Chamber Singers grades 9 and 11
-WISE Internship - Grade 12 (this is planned)
-NYSSMA Grades, All “outstanding”, grades 9-11
-Volunteered at the library for the whole summer of my freshman year</p>

<p>Out of School EC’s:
-Pianist for 15 years
-Martial Artist, Red/Black stripe ranking - 8 years
-Hospital Volunteering at the Emergency Department - Grades 11-12 (planning to keep up with it senior year)
-200+ hours shadowing various doctors including a Cardiologist and an Anesthesiologist
-Piano Guild Participant - 5 years
-Pianist at the nursing home - Grade 9
-Returning pianist at winter and summer recitals for the Brookville Reformed Church (yes, this means I live on Long Island, but I am far from “rich” or even “middle class”) - 10 years
-Youth Group at the Glen Cove Christian Church</p>

<p>Letters of Recommendation:
-Guidance Counselor
-Piano teacher of 15 years
-The Anesthesiologist I mentioned earlier wrote me one, and my guidance counselor said that it was awesome.
-My Chemistry Honors teacher
-My AP Euro teacher from 10th grade</p>

<p>They’re all in and ready to go. </p>

<p>Employment:
-Photographer’s assistant - Summer of 2008
-Auto body repair assistant - Summer of 2009</p>