<p>Hi, I am a junior. Chance me for these schools that my mom and I came up with. </p>
<p>GPA: 92 unweighted
ACT: 33 Composite
SAT II: 720 Biology, 700 Math II
Extracurricular: Volunteered at Staten Island University Hospital for more than 300 hours.
Participated in many high school plays and productions.
Varsity letter for cross country.</p>
<p>Schools:
Top Choices:
Columbia (ED?)
Dartmouth
Duke
UPenn
Brown</p>
<p>Second to Top Choices:
Cornell
University of Chicago
Northwestern</p>
<p>Third to top Choices:
University of Virginia
Pennsylvania State</p>
<p>Financial aid isn't an issue for us and we can and will take loans if necessary.
Thank you.</p>
<p>All of the “top choices” are reaches. Even the second top choices might be slight reaches. Third choices are matches.</p>
<p>Thank you. I’m interested in Brown’s PLME and Northwestern’s HPME as well. By the way, I didn’t apply to Johns Hopkins because that’s my dream medical school and I heard medical schools usually don’t accept students from the same undergraduate.
What should I improve on?</p>
<p>Brown’s PLME and HPME are extremely competitive programs. You should check out other medical programs if you are interested in them. Check out “Multiple Degree Programs” under “Pre-medical and Medical Topics” on CC. GPA is not very competitive and ACTs could be better. Also, ECs are not great. It doesn’t seem like you have much leadership or passion about something. For med programs, you would probably want to show interest in medicine through shadowing, research and so on.</p>
<p>You should apply to those place if you really truly love them, but they are extremely competitive, and your GPA/ACT/SAT 2s are a bit low for them. Is there something that makes you stand out? Capitalize on that…</p>
<p>Dblazer,Hi, I didn’t do much research like for Intel or anything, but I did do a lot of work when I was in the hospital like helping the patients, stock and restock, watch procedures, connect patients to machines, and assist in feeding etc. The problem is that rehearsals and track take up most of my time in school so I don’t have time for any other activity. What would you recommend for the summer? (I’m planning on going back to the hospital)
Born2dance, What do you recommend I take/retake in my senior year?</p>
<p>Additional Information:
Here is my tentative senior schedule:
AP Psychology
AP English
Calculus I
Economics
Poetry Workshop</p>
<p>Already took AP Chemistry (5), AP US (4).</p>
<p>Your GPA is low. On a 4.0 scale, you have a 3.68. I don’t all the top schools are high reaches. In addition, your Scores are low for the PLME and HPME programs. Those programs have less than 3-4% acceptance rates. I don’t think you will get into those. I think that you may have a chance at Cornell and UChicago.</p>
<p>You don’t have enough APs. I had 9 and I got into Dartmouth, brown, and Penn of the 4 ivies I applied to. The average admitted applicant has like 6+ APs</p>
<p>The multiple degree programs really do look into your medical experiences, so the hospital volunteering was good. Other things you can do are lab research and shadowing. I also love that your activities are focused/long term.</p>
<p>If you already had a 5 on AP chemistry, why not try a subject test in chem to bring up the overall test scores a little bit? Also, if you are looking at the multiple degree programs, are you sure you want to ED Columbia? Just some thoughts that came to mind while reading your post.</p>
<p>" I didn’t apply to Johns Hopkins because that’s my dream medical school and I heard medical schools usually don’t accept students from the same undergraduate."</p>
<p>That is wrong. It is a great place for undergrad premed, and most of them are accepted into the medical school.</p>
<p>Hazel: Thanks. It’s too late to take the subject test though since I took AP Chemistry last year and I have forgotten most of the material. This year, I didn’t take any APs but I did take several honor classes. I’m applying ED to Columbia since it’s close to home and my parents really want me to go there.
Danish: What I meant to say was that an undergraduate student from JHU would have a hard time getting accepted into JHU’s medical school. I agree that it’s the perfect place for a premed student though.</p>
<p>I don’t think that it’s necessarily harder to be accepted by JHU’s med school, it’s just that you might not have preferential treatment. Besides, the chance of getting into JHU’s med school is really low either way.</p>
<p>yea I mean it’s better if you earn a good GPA from JHU when applying because it shows how diligent you are by their standards; Medical school is hard, but it becomes easier when you prove yourself worthy one way or another.</p>