<p>Standardized Tests:
PSAT: CR: 73, M: 76, W: 80
AP euro history: 4</p>
<p>Transcript: overall 4.23/4.0
Frosh: all honors, all As
Soph: all honors/ap, 5 As, 1 B in Latin 2nd semester
Junior: 1st semester; all honors/ap, 4 As, 1 B in APUSH, 1 B in English
i've been taking the toughest course load possible. </p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
Frosh:State History Day finalist, JV tennis (#2 doubles), performed violin in europe, team won 2nd place at state Latin convention, performed indian classical vocal at various events
Soph: County History Day winner, 6th place in Tower building at State Science Olympiad (team won 9th overall), school sentinel award in science (top 3%), JV tennis (#1 singles)
Junior (so far): 2nd place in Disease Detectives at Regional Science Olympiad, section leader of school orchestra (we got highest marks at county competition), participated on robotics team, placed in state latin competition, county science fair, highest scorer on AMC12 test in school, natl honor society prez</p>
<p>Comunity Service:
200 hours of hospital volunteering</p>
<p>i'm involved in other school clubs and activities. i've also won various other awards. this is just the basics.</p>
<p>thanks so much for reading this! please reply!</p>
<p>Okay, try to see if you can do some stuff like summer research or college courses. To be truthful, pretty crappy schools usually offer BA/MD. I would reccomend you go to Stanford and then apply to a good medical school like UCSF. If not Stanford, then at least Berkeley or a university like Penn. You SAT score is within a good range.</p>
<p>"pretty crappy schools usually offer BA/MD"?</p>
<p>Please tell me you're joking. Northwestern, Boston, Univ. Miami all have crappy medical schools? UCSF is one of the hardest medical schools to gain admission to, and I sincerely hope that you're not banking on getting in there.</p>
<p>tigress, although you're on a good track for BA/DDS, you're borderline for the BA/MD programs. Which ones are you planning on applying to? Check out the multiple degree forum and maybe post this there.</p>
<p>thanks yall so much for replying! it's so great to get another perspective.</p>
<p>yeah i was hoping for a ba/md, but now i'm not sure i should even apply. ba/dds sounds much more appealing and reasonable. penn dental would be so awesome.</p>
<p>"i would recomend you go to stanford" -hahaha. sorry that just sounded to me like saying "i would recomend you go to the top school on the west coast." i would freakin die to go to stanford. </p>
<p>non-program schools i'm considering: UCLA, UCSD, UC Berkley, Stanford, Northwestern, CalTech, NYU, Washington U st. louis, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Rice, USC.
What do you think? Are my goals to high?</p>
<p>tigress, Rice has a BA/MD program with guaranteed admission to Baylor (which is a GREAT med school..on par with or above many ivies). It's tough to get into, and it requires that you apply early decision 1 (binding) or 2 (non-binding), but you seem like a reasonable candidate. Agreed that science research would help, but you do what you can. </p>
<p>My sister, who posts on these forums as jenskate1, is in her first of 8 years at the program and she's really happy so far. I think when all her friends are stressing about MCATs and she doesn't have to, she'll be even happier.</p>
<p>Yeah, Stanford does rock for pre-med. Just be sure to get 2300+, good AP scores etc. Possibly even consider doing research over the Summer or at a local UC during the year. For Caltech, I would highly reccomend that you try and take outside college courses going beyond Calculus BC and definetly get yourself some biological sciences research. Well, I can tell you more, just im me at Rahul K Ghosh on AIM. I am also a pre-med student sort of within your situation.</p>
<p>rahul
if ur definition of crappy schools include Brown (ivy league), northwestern (20th best med school according to US News), and Baylor (13th best med school) then i guess u dont need to go to college because u would be too good for any university
it doesn't matter where u get ur MD from
u dont need to be a stanford med or berkely or harvard or yale med grad to be a great doctor
most of the best doctors in america never went to these schools</p>
<p>i don't think rahul was referring to brown, northwestern, and the like. but more like u of miami, lehigh, case western, ya know, 2nd tier schools. </p>
<p>aaaanyway, i agree about the research. i'm trying to get some research done this summer in addition to 3 college courses i'm taking (poli sci, econ, chem). i'm debating whether to take the courses at UCI or the local community college. comm college is so much cheaper and there shouldn't be much of a difference in terms of the level of study for each. would a UC class look better?</p>