<p>Hey, I'm looking to get into 7/8 med programs and other colleges also. Here are the colleges:</p>
<p>Lehigh University/Drexel College of Medicine (7 year med program)
Drexel/Drexel College of Medicine (7 year med program)
Union College/Albany Medical College (8 year med program)
SUNY Stony Brook (8 year medical program)
Tufts University
Boston University
Johns Hopkins University
Carnegie Mellon University
SUNY Binghamton
SUNY Geneseo
UPenn
Cornell</p>
<p>Here are my stats:
-Indian Female
-Live in Long Island, New York
-attending okay high school</p>
<p>GPA: 95.227 UW 101.005 W
SAT: 2110
Reading:700
Math: 710
Writing: 700 (essay 10)
SAT II's:
Biology:720
Chemistry:730
Math II: 760
US History:710
AP's:
Biology: 5
Chemistry: 3
US History: 4
English Language: 2 (don't know how this happend)</p>
<p>Senior year courses: AP Gov, AP Eco, AP Calc BC, AP Physics, AP Lit, College Spanish (we don't have AP)</p>
<p>I took all honor and AP courses throughout high school. My electives include Orchestra, web designing, and sports medicine</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities and Honors:
-varsity tennis (singles for 3 years)
-varsity badminton (singles for 3 years)
-science olympiad (4 years, vice president)
-protein modeling challenge @ Stony Brook University (4 years)
-treasurer of National Honor Society
-treasurer of Farmingdale High School Key Club
-best freshman researcher in 2009
-member of spanish honor society
-Bharatnatyam dancer (since 5th grade, performed my arangetram (debut) in August 2009)
-Play violin since 3rd grade
-Play the sitar and harmonium (indian intruments)</p>
<p>Work Experience:
-Paid Internship at CSHL's DNA Learning Center (Fall 2010-present)
-Private textbook coordinator at Farmingdale High School (summer 2009)</p>
<p>Volunteer:
-AHRC (30+ hours)
-Central Island Healthcare (10+ hours)
-New Island Hospital (50+ hours)
-Nassau University Medical Center (100+ hours)
-FHS Library (21+ hours)
-Kumon Learning Center (30+ hours)
-Interact Club (10+ hours)
-Key Club (100+ hours)</p>
<p>Please chance me and let me know if any other information would help :) Thanks</p>
<p>2 key problems. SAT is low, especially for BS/MD programs where SAT is more important than for your other school. Also, subject scores are rather weak. As academics are the most important for such programs, I wouldn’t say you stand a great chance at BS/MDs. In terms of interest in medicine, you should do some shadowing because though hospital volunteering is fine, you’ll want to show a little more interest. The programs you are applying to, generally considered the “easier” ones are not out of reach, but a higher SAT, for example, would make you more competitive. Good luck on the essays.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply!! Yes, the SAT was what I thought would make me less competitive. Do you think I should retake the SAT again or just take the ACT for the first time. Do colleges weigh the SAT more for those programs? As for shadowing, I tried to contact a few physicians at a local hospital, but they kept going on about how they can’t let me shadow them due to some HIPAA regulations…what do you suggest is the best way to approach the shadowing?? Thanks so much again and sorry for all the questions!!</p>
<p>As simple as it sounds, take the test which you think you can do better in. If you take SAT, at least try for ~1470+ which seems manageable. In terms of shadowing, those doctors were probably BSing to get you off their back. As long as you ensure that you won’t tell medical information to anyone who is not part of a patient’s care, you’re fine. You need to follow the same exact HIPPA regulation to volunteer in the hospital and they still let you do that so in conclusion, they’re probably not being completely honest. Though for the hospital you may need to fill out some forms/ get some tests. Look around, more, maybe ask the volunteer department of your hospital if there are any opportunities.</p>
<p>What exactly is the rush? The traditional route through undergraduate/med school provides on with a much broader, more well rounded education which will make you abetter doctor.</p>
<p>@ bigredmom: I just feel that since getting into med school is soo competitive these days (and its only going to get worse) I would rather be accepted early. And the 8 year programs take the same amount of time as the traditional way. Offcourse, if I do not get into any of the programs I will go through the traditional way. I also don’t think doing the traditional way necessarily makes you a better doctor. But thats just my opinion.</p>
your advice really helped</p>